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Poverty, hunger and democracy in Africa : potential and limitations of democracy in cementing multiethnic societies

Bigman, David - 2011

The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...

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Chile in Transition : Prospects and Challenges for Latin America’s Forerunner of Development

Benedikter, Roland (ed.); Siepmann, Katja (ed.) - 2015

The economic, political and social situation in Chile shows a country in transition. Some observers anticipate a broad “reboot” of the nation. While Chile is still seen by many as an example of progress in South America and of developmental potential in the global South, it faces a complex...

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Saving for development : how Latin America and the Caribbean can save more and better

Cavallo, Eduardo A. (ed.); Serebrisky, Tomás (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2016

Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live...

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Development Connections : Unveiling the Impact of New Information Technologies

Chong, Alberto (ed.) - 2011

Development Connections takes stock of recent advances in what is broadly known as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The authors seek to discover how information and telecommunication technologies affect both the public and private sectors in Latin America and how they can...

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Economic and Financial Developments in Latin America

Motamen-Samadian, Sima (ed.) - 2006

This book evaluates the economic effect of monetary policies and exchange rate arrangements within Latin America. Using theoretical and empirical studies, the text examines pertinent issues in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, including the role of currency board, inflation targeting and...

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Economic Growth with Equity : Challenges for Latin America

Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo (ed.); Machinea, José Luis (ed.) - 2007

This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak. This volume focuses on growth-with-equity, and is written by an outstanding group of Latin American and international researchers and...

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Global Quality of Democracy as Innovation Enabler : Measuring Democracy for Success

Campbell, David F.J. - 2019

This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development. It concentrates on how to … conceptualize and to measure democracy and quality of democracy in global comparison. The author makes the argument that a quality-of-democracy …1 Introduction: How to Conceptualize Democracy, Quality of Democracy in Global Comparison, and Democracy as Innovation …