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Australia's Competitiveness: From Lucky Country to Competitive Country

by Michael J. Enright & Richard Petty

In this in-depth overview of Australia's economy, Michael Enright and Richard Petty — leading scholars on international competition—look at the data behind the news reports to offer a complete view of Australia's...


The New Scramble for Africa

by P?draig Carmody

Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now...


Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

by Colin Crouch

The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy...


Development Without Aid: The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora

by David A. Phillips

“Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this...


Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

by Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru’s pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s....


Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN: Drivers and Policy Options

by Mark McGillivray & David Carpenter

An important part of the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ensure that the benefits of development and economic integration are equitably shared by all member states and their...


Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

by Patricia E. Perkins

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave...


Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

by Peter Blair Henry

Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. Since then, these and other developing countries have turned...


Aid and Political Conditionality

by Olav Stokke

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economic policy reforms. Market liberalisation was the...


Sand in the Gears: How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing

by Andrew O. Smith

American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile...


Financial Cooperatives and Local Development

by Silvio Goglio & Yiorgos Alexopoulos

This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global...


Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank: The Case of Argentina

by Ernesto Vivares

The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors....


Food Economics: Industry and Markets

by Henning O. Hansen

Food and food markets still enjoy a pivotal role in the world economy and the international food industry is moving towards greater consolidation and globalization, with increased vertical integration and changes...


Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo

by Zoë|| Marriage

Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns, bolstered by claims of shared returns and reinforcing processes of development and security. As global security and human...


Disasters and the Networked Economy

by J.M. Albala-Bertrand

Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand...


Economic Growth and Sustainable Development

by Peter Neal Hess

Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living. Sustainable development, popularly and concisely defined as 'meeting the needs of...


Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into use in Low Income Countries

by Norman Clark, Andy Frost & Ian Maudlin

Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews...


State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India

by Kunal Sen

When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles...


Increasing Resilience to Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector of the Middle East: The Cases of Jordan and Lebanon

by Dorte Verner

This publication aims to assist countries in understanding the specific challenges and opportunities posed by climate change in the agricultural sector in order to increase climate resilience and adapt to climate...


Working Scared (Or Not at All): The Lost Decade, Great Recession, and Restoring the Shattered American Dream

by Carl E. Van Horn

Working Scared tells the story of the American workforce during a period of wrenching economic change and two recessions. By tracing the experiences of workers in times of economic prosperity and economic recession,...