Tackles one of the big puzzles in the field of development economics, examining why Argentina, despite rich natural resources and ample human capital, has endured such poor growth performance. This title points to what went wrong, and offers a contribution to sustainable development dialogue

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Data Notes -- Overview -- The investment climate is central to growth and poverty reduction -- Tackling costs, risks, and barriers to competition -- Progress requires more than changes in formal policies -- A process, not an...

Page argues that the increased public and private intervention in international trade over the last fifteen years has been large and persistent enough to impact on total development performance and on individual countries and sectors

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Millennium Development Goals -- part 1 shared millennium challenges for development and faith institutions -- After September 11: What Global Development Challenges Lie Ahead? -- Challenge or Our Generation -- The Sweet Harmony of Dialogue --...

A critical turn in human resource development This issue will comprise a number of papers relating to a series of themes on critical human resource development. The editors proposed the theme due to their concern that the debates and practice of human resource development (HRD) were being...