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  • Riding the Wave

    An East Asian Miracle for the 21st Century

    by Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Nikola Spatafora, Sudhir Shetty, Salman Zaidi ...
    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    Developing East Asia and Pacific has led the way in showing how rapid and broadly shared growth can lift millions out of poverty. As this book shows, the region has achieved even more: the wave of prosperity across the region since the 1980s has lifted three out of five of its citizens into economic security, where their risk of falling into poverty is minimal. And a solid middle class has emerged ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $40.99 CAD

  • Cracking the China Conundrum

    Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong

    by Yukon Huang ...
    China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Reclaiming Development

    An Alternative Economic Policy Manual

    by Ha-Joon Chang, Ilene Grabel ...
    Series series Global Issues
    There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. Many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain within the international development policy establishment. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel confront this neoliberal development model head-on by combining devastating economic critique with an array of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Fredrik Sjöholm, José Tongzon ...
    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    This book examines the institutional changes taking place in, and challenges facing, the region since 1997. It also describes various differences in the reform process between countries in the region. Sjöholm and Tongzon argue that the economies of southeast Asia need to reform their institutions if the previous rapid development is to continue. The institutional weaknesses have been addressed to ... Read more

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  • Globalization for Development

    Meeting New Challenges

    by Ian Goldin, Kenneth Reinert ...
    Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood. This book explores the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to economic development. By considering what ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Managing Development

    Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy

    Edited by Junji Nakagawa ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to external shocks and volatility.As a consequence, stakeholders at every level of the development and ... Read more

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  • New Directions in Development Economics

    Growth, Environmental Concerns and Government in the 1990s

    Edited by Mats Lundahl, Benno Ndulu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    New Directions in Development Economics is divided into two parts. The first half considers the dilemma of growth with special reference to its environmental cost. The second half focuses on the role of the state in the context of the growing dominance of the free market argument. The contributors include Paul Collier, Partha Dasgupta, Ronald Findlay and Deepak Lal. ... Read more

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  • Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India

    by Pranab Bardhan ...
    The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and India's market reforms and high growth have been tendentious, exaggerated, or oversimplified. Awakening ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Case for a New Bretton Woods

    by Kevin P. Gallagher, Richard Kozul-Wright ...
    Series series The Case For
    After the 2008–9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains dysfunctional.Now, the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic offers us a second chance. Kevin Gallagher and Richard Kozul-Wright argue that we ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • 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

    $29.59 CAD

  • Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay

    Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India

    by Pranab Bardhan ...
    A comparative look at the astonishing economic rise of modern China and IndiaThe recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention—and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and India's market reforms and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD