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  • From Equity to Growth

    Social Discontent in Developing Countries

    by José Antonio Ocampo, Jonathan Malagon, Andrés Felipe Narvaez ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    In many emerging economies, impressive progress in reducing poverty has been overshadowed by persistent inequality and growing frustration with political elites. This widespread social discontent has driven governments to respond with short-term policies aimed at increasing equity that run the risk of jeopardizing long-term development. Is it possible to build fairer societies without undermining ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • One Economics, Many Recipes

    Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local economic and political realities rather than obeying the dictates of the international globalization ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America

    Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

    by Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets. Over time, institutional complementarities knit features of corporate governance and labor markets together and thus contribute to institutional resiliency. Political systems generally ... Read more

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  • Brazil in Transition

    Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    by Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • When Things Don't Fall Apart

    Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

    by Ilene Grabel ...
    An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis.In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial governance and developmental finance. Most observers ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Brazil

    Reversal of Fortune

    by Alfred P. Montero ...
    Once deemed a “dysfunctional” democracy with a “feckless” set of political institutions and a “drunk” economy, today’s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune. Now in its third decade of democracy, the economy is blossoming and large-scale development projects are underway, including the exploitation of massive, off-shore oil reserves, a nationwide effort to modernize infrastructure, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Political Economy of Latin America

    Reflections on Neoliberalism and Development after the Commodity Boom

    by Peter Kingstone ...
    This brief text offers an unbiased reflection on debates about neoliberalism and its alternatives in Latin America with an emphasis on the institutional puzzle that underlies the region’s difficulties with democratization and development. In addition to providing an overview of this key element of the Latin American political economy, Peter Kingstone also advances the argument that both state-led ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Cooperatives Confront Capitalism

    Challenging the Neoliberal Economy

    by Peter Ranis ...
    Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglected cooperative movement in Cuba, Peter Ranis explores how cooperatives have evolved in response to ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Globalization And Development: A Latin American And Caribbean Perspective

    by Ocampo Jose Antonio; Martin Juan ...
    Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. In this book, ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and multidimensional assessment of the globalization process from the perspectives of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

    From neoliberalism to resource nationalism

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Pablo Heidrich ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Feminism in Public Debt

    A Human Rights Approach

    by Iolanda Fresnillo, Alicja Paulina Krubnik, Diane Perrons, Penelope Hawkins, Marina Zucker Marques, Christina Laskaridis, Francisco Cantamutto, Agostina Constantino, Patricia Miranda, Laura Pautassi, Camila Villar Duran, Maria Nieves Rico, Julieta Rossi, Corina Rodríguez Enriquez, Florencia Paternio, Ariel Wilkis, Verónica Serafini Geoghegan, Flavia Marco Navarro, Leia Achapong, Ulrike Marx, Dorothy Estrada Tanck, María Cristina Perceval, Magalí Brosio, Lena Lavinas, Diane Elson ...
    Series series Business, Finance and International Development
    EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, this interdisciplinary volume explores the intersection of sovereign debt and women's human rights.Through contributions from leading voices in academia, civil society, international organizations and national governments, it shows how ... Read more

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