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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...
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Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion
Cull, Robert (contributor) - The MIT Press
About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world’s adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast “unbanked” population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance and mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640592
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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640620
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The Violence of Financial Capitalism
Marazzi, Christian - The MIT Press
emerged from it. Marazzi, a leading figure in the European postfordist movement, argues that the processes of financialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919693
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The Violence of Financial Capitalism
Marazzi, Christian - The MIT Press
theoretical tools necessary to comprehend capitalism today, offering an innovative analysis of financialization in the context of … postfordist cognitive capitalism. He argues that the processes of financialization are not simply irregularities between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632721
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Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios
Fumagalli, Andrea (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
financialization is one of the most recent and perverse articulations of capitalism. The contributions to Crisis in the Global Economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632726
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Readings in Development Economics, Volume II: Empirical Microeconomics
Bardhan, Pranab; Udry, Christopher - The MIT Press
sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier …
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India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond
Basu, Kaushik (contributor) - The MIT Press
India's economy over the last decade looks in many ways like a success story; after a major economic crisis in 1991, followed by bold reform measures, the economy has experienced a rapid economic growth rate, more foreign investment, and a boom in the information technology sector. Yet many in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973046
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A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy
Bhagwati, Jagdish - The MIT Press
of illegal immigrants, refutes the conventional view that democracy hinders development, and much more. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973148
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Institutions, Development, and Economic Growth
Eicher, Theo S. (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed … by which institutions affect development. This CESifo volume provides a systematic overview of the current scholarship on … different institutional arrangements are appropriate at different stages of economic development); liberalized credit markets …
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