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  • Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate

    by Hari Bansha Dulal, Craig Johnson, Nora Lustig, Luis F. López-Calva, Subrata Mitra, Jivanta Schöttli, Markus Pauli, Kate Bird, Kate Higgins, George Joseph0, Quentin Wodon1, Enrique Hennings2, Arup Mitra3, John Weiss4, Sergei Soares5, Dilys Roe6, Terry Sunderland7, Bryan R. Bushley8, Rishikesh R. Bhandary9, Roberto Foa0, Milo Vandemoortele1 ...
    Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Coming Together?

    Mexico-U.S. Relations

    Edited by Barry P. Bosworth, Nora Claudia Lustig, Susan M. Collins ...
    The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was expected to signal the beginning of a new era of close co-operation between Mexico and the United States. Subsequent events, however, have introduced new tensions into the relationship. The 1995 economic collapse in Mexico sharply curtailed economic growth and lowered the demand for U.S. exports. The result has been a substantial ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • North American Free Trade

    Assessing the Impact

    Edited by Nora Claudia Lustig, Barry P. Bosworth, Robert Z. Lawrence ...
    The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents a historic change in relations among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The effect of the agreement on the three economies has generated controversy and some degree of alarm within each country.In this book, noted trade and development experts review the available literature on the effects of NAFTA on the three member ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Shielding the Poor

    Social Protection in the Developing World

    Edited by Nora Claudia Lustig ...
    The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks. They have little or no access to public social insurance, are unlikely to save in adequate amounts to rely fully on self-insurance or informal insurance, face restricted access to private market insurance or credit mechanisms, and have little or no political voice to demand the protection of safety net programs. In ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers

    Evidence From Eight Developing Countries

    Edited by Gabriela Inchauste, Nora Lustig ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Poverty
    The World Bank has partnered with the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University to implement their diagnostic tool—the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Assessment—designed to assess how taxation and public expenditures affect income inequality, poverty, and different economic groups. The approach relies on comprehensive fiscal incidence analysis, which measures the contribution of each ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economic Development, Economic Growth and Income Distribution

    Structuralist Perspectives on Latin America and Beyond

    Edited by Amitava K. Dutt, Nora Lustig, Juan C. Moreno Brid, José A. Ocampo ...
    Adopting a structuralist approach, this informative book discusses the international obstacles to economic growth and the role of individual sectors including manufacturing and services in political economies. It also examines key issues, such as the determinants of economic growth through capital accumulation and technological change.Leading experts shed light on the importance of aggregate ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    How Trade Can Promote Development

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Charlton ...
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Does North America Exist?

    Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11

    by Stephen Clarkson ...
    In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Process of Economic Development

    by James M. Cypher ...
    The fifth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-date treatment of development economics. It has been extensively revised throughout, reflecting the most recent developments in research and incorporating the latest empirical data, as well as key theoretical advances and many new topics. The world has seen vast economic growth in China, economic transformation in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Dragon in the Room

    China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

    by Kevin Gallagher, Roberto Porzecanski ...
    In the eyes of many, China's unprecedented economic rise has brought nothing but good news to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, China's growing appetite for primary products, and the ability of Latin America to supply that demand, has played a role in restoring growth in Latin America, both in the run-up to the global financial crisis and in its aftermath.The dragon in the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Politics in the New Hard Times

    The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on ... Read more

    $27.89 USD