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The economic North-South divide : six decades of unequal development

Raffer, Kunibert - 2004 - Pbk. ed

South. Encouraged by recent successful opposition to neoliberalism, the authors finally propose ideas for a world where … Consensus' -- 5. Aid to development and the bipolar world -- 6. ODA after the Cold War : less money at tougher conditions -- 7 … -- 13. Textiles and apparel : double standards of adjustment and transition -- 14. Towards a more equal world order …

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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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Aid, institutions and development : new approaches to growth, governance and poverty

Chakravarti, Ashok - 2005

. Marginalization from the world economy and increases in absolute poverty are causing countries to degenerate into failed, oppressive …

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Microfinance : emerging trends and challenges

Sundaresan, Suresh M. (contributor) - 2008

This book takes a solid step toward a systematic analysis of the implications of microfinance for the role and regulation of capital markets. The authors address integration of capital markets with microfinance, technological innovations such as the use of mobile phone technology, the...

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Fighting terrorism at source : using foreign aid to delegate global security

Azam, Jean-Paul; Thelen, Véronique - 2018

Contents: 1. Introduction and overview -- Part 1: Getting the questions right -- 2: Targets and perpetrators of transnational terrorist attacks -- 3: Why suicide terrorists get educated -- 4: Aid and military intervention in a model of delegated protection -- Part 2: Empirical answers -- 5:...

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The future of the international monetary system

Uzan, Marc (contributor) - 2005

for the developing world and the future of the sovereign debt market -- pt. 3. The evolving debate of capital account …

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Deficits, debt, and democracy : wrestling with tragedy on the fiscal commons

Wagner, Richard E. - 2012

This timely book reveals that the budget deficits and accumulating debts that plague modern democracies reflect a clash between two rationalities of governance: one of private property and one of common property. The clashing of these rationalities at various places in society creates forms of...

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The political economy of international finance in an age of inequality : soft currencies, hard landings

Epstein, Gerald A. (ed.) - 2018

Contents: 1. Introduction / Gerald Epstein -- Part I Capital flows and financial crises -- 2. Financial crises among emerging and developing economies in the modern era: a brief history and some stylized themes / Elissa Braunstein -- 3. Too good to be true: what the Icelandic crisis revealed...

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Debt management for development : protection of the poor and the millennium development goals

Raffer, Kunibert - 2010

1. Brief history of debt management until 1989 -- 2. Brief history of debt management after 1989 -- 3. In quest of solutions : sovereign insolvency proposals, collective action clauses and recent country cases -- 4. Gleneagles, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative and the US crisis -- 5. The...

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Extraordinary cities : millennia of moral syndromes, world-systems and city/state relations

Taylor, Peter J. - 2013

Globalization and World Cities Research Network and think-tank on worldwide links between cities presents this fascinating overview … Geographical Unions Commission on Urban Geography). -- This is a "big book" by Peter Taylor. It tells of the extraordinary world …

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