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  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Forging New Trade Links with Asia

    by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Kevin Carey, Ulrich Mr. Jacoby ...
    What is the impact on trade in sub-Saharan Africa of the recent rapid growth in China and other Asian countries, and the associated commodity price boom? This paper looks at how trading patterns (both destinations and composition) are changing in sub-Saharan Africa. Has the region managed to diversify the products it sells from commodities to manufactured goods? Has it expanded the range of ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • Building Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa's Fragile States

    by E. Mr. Gelbard, Corinne Deléchat, Ejona Ms. Fuli, Mumtaz Mr. Hussain, Ulrich Mr. Jacoby, Dafina Mrs. Mulaj, Marco Pani, Gustavo Ramirez, Rui Xu ...
    Series Book 15 - Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
    This paper analyzes the persistence of fragility in some sub-Saharan African states and the multiple dimensions of state weakness that are simultaneously at play. This study also provides an overview of the analytics of fragility, conflict, and international engagement with fragile states before turning to an assessment of the current state of affairs and the areas in which there has been progress ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

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  • Reforming the Unreformable

    Lessons from Nigeria

    by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...
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  • Tax Havens

    How Globalization Really Works

    by Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    If you are looking to understand how tax havens and offshore financial centers work, how they are governed (or not!), and what kind of economic and political impacts they have, then this book is for you! This recent text by well-recognized experts in the field is a most welcome addition to the literatures.... It fills an important void, since there was not until now a general but nevertheless ... Read more

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  • A Crisis Wasted

    Barack Obama's Defining Decisions

    by Reed Hundt ...
    "The blow by blow story of a president and his team wasting the 'opportunity' of the Great Recession to change the fundamentals of the economy." — Steven Brill, New York Times– bestselling authorThis book is the compelling story of President Obama's domestic policy decisions made between September 2008 and his inauguration on January 20, 2009. Barack Obama determined the fate of his presidency ... Read more

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  • Remedy and Reaction

    The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

    by Paul Starr ...
    In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Singapore: a Case Study in Rapid Development

    by Kenneth Mr. Bercuson ...
    Series Book 119 - Occasional Papers
    Since attaining independence in 1965 Singapore has experienced exceptionally rapid growth, low inflation, and a healthy balance of payments. This paper reviews Singapore's economic development from a long-term perspective and examines some of the factors that have contributed to the sustained rapid growth ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • The BRIC Road to Growth

    by Jim O'Neill ...
    Series series Perspectives
    The idea that Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRICs") are the rising stars of the world economy is now widely accepted. However, the "old" developed nations have not adjusted to the new world order as they struggle with the legacy of the financial crisis. The BRICs and others (especially Korea) have already ‘emerged’ as economic powers. This requires rapid adjustment in economic policies and ... Read more

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  • Debacle

    Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future

    by Grover Glenn Norquist, John R. Lott Jr. ...
    A provocative critique of the Obama administration's economic policies and an examination of America's difficult economic futureDuring the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised "a net spending cut" to make government smaller in order to reduce the deficit. But this huge increase in government spending and debt, and the resulting prospect of higher taxes, will make America a poorer ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

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  • Tanzania: The Story of an African Transition

    by Roger Mr. Nord, Yuri Mr. Sobolev, David G. Mr. Dunn, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Niko Mr. Hobdari, Samar Maziad, Stéphane Roudet ...
    In 1985, Tanzania was in severe economic distress, plagued by widespread shortages and high inflation. Agricultural production, the mainstay of the economy, had been declining steadily since the 1970s. Exports of cash crops, which traditionally accounted for the bulk of foreign exchange earnings, had fallen by half between 1970 and 1985. A foreign exchange shortage led to a precipitous drop in ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Agricultural Trade Reform And The Doha Development Agenda

    by Anderson Kym; Martin Will ...
    Agricultural trade reform is critical to a favorable development outcome from the Doha Development Agenda. But agricultural policies and the policy reforms being contemplated are fiendishly complicated, and the devil is in the details. Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda builds up from the essential detail of the tariffs and other protection measures, and uses this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD