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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...
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Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria
Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi - The MIT Press
, saving for the future, or building credibility with debtors and investors. This story of development economics in action …
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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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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/10010905538
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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...
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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. …
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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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Trade, Tariffs, and Growth
Bhagwati, Jagdish - The MIT Press
of optimal policy intervention under domestic distortions. Four important essays on growth and development round out the …
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The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth
Naughton, Barry - The MIT Press
This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a … different aspects of the modern Chinese economy. It analyzes patterns of growth and development, including population growth and … technological development in urban areas; international trade and foreign investment; macroeconomic trends and cycles and the …
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