With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing...

This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to...

This book analyzes the new trends in capital flows to emerging markets since the Asian crisis, their determinants and policy implications. It explains why such flows have declined so dramatically in recent years, emphasising both structural and cyclical factors. Senior bankers, regulators, and...

The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained centerstage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is aseries of country studies guided by that research. The thirteenessays, by leading economists, shed light on some of the mostimportant growth puzzles of our time....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Property of the Social Media Data -- Chapter 3: “A Giant Glob of Oily Ambiguity”: On the Use of the Concept of Power in Economics -- Chapter 4: Temptation and Crime -- Chapter 5: Moral Costs of Corruption: A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 6:...

This book addresses senior policy makers interested in understanding & debating key issues currently faced by the better performing emerging markets throughout the world. Papers in the volume address international capital flows, financial markets, globalization & private participation in...

Introduction / Stephan Pfaffenzeller -- The resource curse, commodity prices and economic growth / David I. Harvey, Neil Kellard, Jakob B. Madsen and Mark E. Wohar -- Which terms of trade : recent developments in relative commodity prices / Stephan Pfaffenzeller -- A diversification path for...

Editor's summary -- Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate Martin Ravallion -- Channels from globalization to inequality : productivity world versus factor world William Easterly -- Health in an age of globalization Angus Deaton -- Assessing the impact of globalization on...