Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Leadership in Postcolonial Africa: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Hastings Kamuzu Banda: How the Cold War Sustained Bad Leadership in Malawi, 1964-1994 -- Chapter 3 Ahmed Sékou Touré: The Tyrant Hero -- Chapter 4 The Quest to Reform the...

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: A Call for Action in a Multidisciplinary World -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Our Vision of International Development -- 3 The Importance, Richness and Limitations of...

Book Abstracts -- Contents -- 1: The Long Stagnation -- Western Australian Economic Growth and the Role of Co-operation -- The Imperial Inheritance and Pragmatic Co-operation -- The Organisation of This Book -- Bibliography -- Theses -- Secondary Sources -- 2: Visions of English Co-operation in...

Intro -- Title page -- Dedication page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX - POWER, MYTHS, FACTS AND FIGURES -- 1. How the West's Addiction to Arms Sales Caused the 2008 Financial Crisis -- 2. What is the Military-Industrial...

How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to...

Recent high-profile corporate scandals-such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan-demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law...

This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection's...

Experts address "the development puzzle"--unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries--and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.

Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- BACKGROUND -- FOCUS ON FERTILITY DECLINE AND ECONOMIC WELFARE -- UNDERSTANDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF FERTILITY DECLINE -- 1 Will Slower Population Growth Increase the Growth Rate of...