negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders’ ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is … innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia’s failure to sustain technology, and … its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to …

, saving for the future, or building credibility with debtors and investors. This story of development economics in action …

such product innovations as microfinance and mobile banking but also issues of data accuracy, impact assessment, risk … mitigation, technology adaptation, financial literacy, and local context. In Banking the World, experts take up these topics …

sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier …

in the information technology sector. Yet many in the country still suffer from crushing poverty, and social and … and fiscal reform, the rapid growth of the information technology sector (including a case study of India's software …

of illegal immigrants, refutes the conventional view that democracy hinders development, and much more. …

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 …

of optimal policy intervention under domestic distortions. Four important essays on growth and development round out the …