"This book examines the main factors behind observed poverty changes in eight countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. After reviewing the trends in income poverty and other, more direct measures of well-being (such as education, health, and...

The dynamics of globalization / Laurence Harris -- Economic policies and external performance in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Machiko Nissanke -- Governments and external performance in Africa / Beatrice Weder -- Local entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and...

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 Macroeconometric evidence on the transmission mechanism in the euro area; Part 2 Firms' investment and monetary policy: evidence from micro economic data; Part 3 The role of...

Preliminaries -- Table of Contents; Introduction -- Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung -- The Theory of Economic Development -- The Institutional Analysis of Entrepreneurship -- The Influence of Schumpeter's German Writings on the Mainstream Economic Literature in English -- Schumpeter and...

I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE -- Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century Larry Neal, Stephen Quinn -- Paris Bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure Eugene N. White -- No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of...

The terms of the debate: what's democracy got to do with it? / Leslie Elliott Armijo -- Global financial architecture and hegemonic leadership in the new millennium / Mark R. Brawley -- Capital controls: why do governments hesitate? / Benjamin J. Cohen -- Reforming the international financial...