Economic development : what everyone needs to know /
"The practice of economic development has undergone significant transformation over the past decade, due to globalization and democratization. While beneficiaries previously held little sway in the way international economic institutions delegated funds for projects, today it would be difficult...
| Основен автор: | Giugale, Marcelo, (Author) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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What everyone needs to know.
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Съдържание:
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- Introduction
- Part I
- Governments: One Day, They Will Work For You
- 1. Why Do Obvious Reforms Never Happen? The Political Economy of Things
- 2. How Will I Relate To My Government? The State and Me
- 3. Do We Really Care About Graft? Cairo, Corruption and Cultural Change
- 4. Why Can't We Stop Conflict? Violence and the Failure of Institutions
- 5. Are Natural Resources A Good Thing? Blessed by Nature, Cursed By Politics
- Part II
- Economic Policy: The Basics You've Got to Get Right
- 6. Has Economic Wisdom Changed? Macroeconomics Catches Up With Reality
- 7. A New, Wasted Bonanza? Commodities and that Uncomfortable Feeling of Wealth
- 8. Will Globalization End? A Different Kind of Trade
- 9. Why Is It So Difficult to Agree on Tax Reform?
- 10. How Do You Prepare For Another Global Crisis?
- Part III
- Social Policy: Old War, New Weapons
- 11. How Do We Help Now? The Lingering Global Crisis And The New Poor
- 12. Can We End Poverty?
- 13. Is There A Way To Measure Equity? The Human Opportunity Index
- 14. Why Are Statistics So Important? Poverty in the Era of Data
- 15. Who Really Benefits? Winners, Losers and The Beauty of Impact Analysis
- Part IV
- Inclusion: Those Who Are Always Left Behind
- 16. Will We Ever Live In Gender Parity? Women, Growth and Generational Change
- 17. Has Globalization Helped or Hurt Women?
- 18. Are Average Housewives Powerless? The Greatest Generation of Argentine Women
- 19. What Have Economists Learned About Indigenous Peoples?
- 20. Why Is Early Childhood Development So Difficult? The Child From Mozambique
- Part V
- Sectors: What Ministers Will Worry About-or Should
- 21. How Will Technology Shape The World of Tomorrow's Leaders?
- 22. How Will Tomorrow's Infrastructure Be Built?
- 23. Can Emerging Economies Have Universal Health Coverage?
- 24. Is There New Power In Entertainment Education?
- 25. How Do You Deal With Rising Food Prices?
- Part VI
- Africa: The Last Frontier
- 26. Is Africa's Emergence For Real?
- 27. Can Africa Be Defragmented?
- 28. Who Will Be Africa's Brazil?
- 29. Is There A Latin Solution to Africa's Problem?
- 30. How Have The World's Newest Nations Fared?
- 31. Can Africa Compete With China?
- 32. Can Africa Feed Africa?
- Glossary
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index.