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  • Let Their People Come

    Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility

    by Lant Pritchett ...
    In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five "irresistible forces" of global labor migration, and the "immovable ideas" that form a political backlash against it. Increasing wage gaps, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and the continued employment growth in low skilled, labor intensive industries all contribute to the forces compelling labor to migrate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rebirth of Education

    Schooling Ain't Learning

    by Lant Pritchett ...
    Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In Indias rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building State Capability

    Evidence, Analysis, Action

    by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Moving Out of Poverty

    Success from the Bottom Up

    by Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett, Soumya Kapoor, Palgrave Macmillan UK ...
    Series Book 2 - Moving out of poverty
    'No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall 5,000 times, I will stand up another 5,000 times.' -- William, a 37-year-old from El Gorrión, Colombia Why and how do some people move out of povertyâ€"and stay outâ€"while others remain trapped? Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. In contrast, 'Moving Out of Poverty: ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deals and Development

    The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes

    Edited by Kunal Sen, Lant Pritchett, Eric Werker ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few of these countries been able to sustain growth over decades? Deals and Development ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Moving Out Of Poverty, Volume 2: Success From The Bottom Up

    by Narayan Deepa; Pritchett Lant; Kapoor Soumya ...
    No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall five thousand times, I will stand up some other five times." William, a 37 years old from El Gorrion, Columbia, recounts his life story.Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up presents the perspectives of poor people who have ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    by Jasper Eshuis, E.H. Klijn ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Politicians and public managers utilize branding to communicate with the public as well as to position themselves within the ever-present media now so central to political and administrative life. They must further contend with stakeholders holding contradictory opinions about the nature of a problem, the desirable solutions , and the values at stake. Branding is used as a strategy to manage ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Gambling on Development

    Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

    by Stefan Dercon ...
    In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Building Better Public Services

    A Guide for Practitioners

    by Tony Dean ...
    For decades, public service organizations have been under constant and growing pressure from citizens and stakeholders to provide more integrated, effective and accountable programs and services. Governments are beginning to acknowledge that they can’t own every issue and increasingly look to collaboration, networking and consultation at many levels as they design and develop polices, programs and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Poor Economics

    A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

    by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo ...
    In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a “rich and humane” (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually liveWhy do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations but pay for unnecessary drugs? Why do children from poor families attend ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Why Africa Fails

    The case for growth before democracy

    by Elly Twineyo-Kamugisha ...
    Africa should accept that its present malaise is largely due to its own mistakes: greed, poor policies and a lack of leadership. Blaming colonialism for Africa’s failings belongs to the past. Africa has been lessed with great wealth, but where has this wealth gone? Why are so many countries in need of aid? And why has this wealth not filtered down to poor people? Elly Twineyo-Kamugisha surveys ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Strategic Organizational Communication

    In a Global Economy

    by Charles Conrad, Marshall Scott Poole ...
    Surveying a wide variety of disciplines, this fully-revised 7th edition offers a sophisticated and engaging treatment of the rapidly expanding field of organizational communicationPlaces organizations and organizational communication within a broader social, economic, and cultural contextApplies a global perspective throughout, including thoughtful consideration of non-Western forms of leadership, ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD