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Change and continuity at the World Bank : reforming paradoxes of economic development

Hammer, Peter J. - 2013

1. The World Bank and Wolfensohn era reforms -- 2. The ABCs of the World Bank -- 3. A framework for modeling Bank behavior -- 4. The dynamics of epistemic economic change -- 5. Application to debt relief, participation and knowledge -- 6. Application to social capital -- 7. Application to...

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Institutions and development

Shirley, Mary M. - 2008

A landmark contribution to our understanding of economic development. This significant book argues that fundamental changes in deeply rooted institutions do not happen because of outsiders' money, advice, pressures, or even physical force; which explains why foreign aid has not, and can not,...

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The Elgar companion to the Asian development bank

Quibria, Muhammad G. (ed.); Akanda, Albab (ed.) - 2024

Companion advances the sound knowledge of the ADB's history, its current methods of operation and its position in the global …

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International handbook on the economics of corruption : Volume two

Rose-Ackerman, Susan (contributor); … - 2011

A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...

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30 years of transition in Europe : looking back and looking beyond in CESEE countries

Holzmann, Robert (ed.); Ritzberger-Grünwald, Doris (ed.); … - 2020

Contents: Preface -- PART I A historic transformation: heterogeneity in CESEE in a changing global context -- 1 Looking back on 30 years of transition - and looking 30 years ahead / Robert Holzmann -- 2 1989: the year of the great ambivalence / Anton Pelinka -- 3 The price of unity: the...

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The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good : interdisciplinary perspectives

Akrivou, Kleio (contributor); Sison, Alejo G. (contributor) - 2016

Introduction / Kleio Akrivou -- Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the …'s influence in western history / Agustín González Enciso -- 2. The 'medieval', the common good and accounting / Alisdair Dobie … inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue. Editors Kleio Akrivou and Alejo José G …

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Research handbook of expatriates

McNulty, Yvonne (contributor); Selmer, Jan (contributor) - 2017

Contents: Foreword / J. Stewart Black -- Part I History of expatriate studies and its current state of play -- 1 … expatriates / Yvonne McNulty and Chris Brewster -- 3. Expatriates : a thematic research history / Jan Selmer -- Part II Historical … the field's most distinguished academics, contributions review the history of the literature in relation to expatriates …

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Conversations on growth, stability and trade : an historical perspective

Snowdon, Brian - 2002

debates in economic history. The author examines the many controversies relating to the role of government in a modern economy …

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Global control : information technology and globalization since 1845

McMahon, Peter - 2002

1. Social organization, control and information technology -- 2. Telecommunications and the nineteenth-century liberal-international world order -- 3. Information technology and US industro-military development -- 4. Telematics and the post-war international order -- 5. Telematics as a...

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Markets versus hierarchies : a political economy of Russia from the 10th century to 2008

Brancato, Ekaterina - 2009

This unique book uses a transaction cost perspective to illustrate how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and present-day Russia

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