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  • From Jobs to Careers

    Apparel Exports and Career Paths for Women in Developing Countries

    by Stacey Frederick, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, Vergara Bahena ...
    Series series South Asia Development Forum
    An oft-cited strategy to advance economic development is to further integrate developing countries into global trade, particularly through global value chains, bolstered by the expansion of female-intensive industries to bring more women into the formal labor force. As a result, a frequent debate centers on whether the apparel industry--the most female-intensive and globally engaged manufacturing ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • From Jobs to Careers

    Apparel Exports and Career Paths for Women in Developing Countries

    by Stacey Frederick, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, Mexico Vergara Bahena ...
    Series series South Asia Development Forum
    The Report shifts the paradigm of how we think of women's participation in the labor force by demonstrating the importance of the distinction between jobs and careers and analyzing how an apparel-led export strategy contributes to the transition. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

    by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart ...
    Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the ... Read more

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  • Made in Africa

    Learning to Compete in Industry

    by Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand ...
    The role of industry in low income countries is important. Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of industry. Africa doesn’t have enough industry to reach the Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about three ... Read more

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  • A Guide To The World Bank, Second Edition

    by World Bank ...
    The World Bank Group is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Its focus is on helping the poorest people in the poorest countries by using its financial resources, staff, and extensive experience to aid countries in reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, and improving quality of life. In partnership with more than 100 developing ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Beating the Odds

    Jump-Starting Developing Countries

    by Célestin Monga, Justin Yifu Lin ...
    How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditionsContrary to conventional wisdom, countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions for development, such as good infrastructure and institutions. In Beating the Odds, two of the world's ... Read more

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  • Economic Development

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Marcelo M. Giugale ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments, development banks, think-tanks, academics, NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obvious reforms never happen? Why are prosperity and equity so elusive? Is the current backlash against globalization another show-stopper? The revised ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Development Dance

    How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

    by Haley J. Swedlund ...
    In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Refugee Economies

    Forced Displacement and Development

    by Alexander Betts, Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, Naohiko Omata ...
    Refugees have rarely been studied by economists. Despite some pioneering research on the economic lives of refugees, there remains a lack of theory and empirical data through which to understand, and build upon, refugees' own engagement with markets. Yet, understanding these economic systems may hold the key to rethinking our entire approach to refugee assistance. If we can improve our knowledge ... Read more

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  • Managing Global Legal Systems

    International Employment Regulation and Competitive Advantage

    by Gary W. Florkowski ...
    Series series Global HRM
    Presenting a framework for understanding the corporate strategy-public policy interface as it relates to human capital management, this unique text treats legal systems as factors that must be actively managed in the firm’s larger pursuit of international competitive advantage. It provides readers with the most comprehensive description to date of the role that transnational, regional and national ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Investment Incentives

    Trends and Policy Options

    Edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, Lisa Sachs ...
    Governments often use direct subsidies or tax credits to encourage investment and promote economic growth and other development objectives. Properly designed and implemented, these incentives can advance a wide range of policy objectives (increasing employment, promoting sustainability, and reducing inequality). Yet since design and implementation are complicated, incentives have been associated ... Read more

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  • Development Without Aid

    The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora

    by David A. Phillips ...
    “Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives and analyzes facts about foreign aid to the poorest developing countries. The discussion is advocacy as much as analysis, and makes extensive reference to recent research, including the author’s previous work on the World Bank.Starting from a perception about development formed during the author’s formative years in what is now Malawi, the book ... Read more

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