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This title covers the major drivers of the Latin American region's economy, including exports of agricultural products, petroleum and minerals, and manufactured goods, along with the service and tourism industries. Despite recent improvements, the Latin American economy remains dependent on commodity exports to the West, presenting a challenge to the region's long-term future. When used in the classroom, this resource provides readers with the tools...
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[2022]
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xi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
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2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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47 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"Explores ways that people can reduce their use of fossil fuels, and thereby reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted, and ways to adapt to a warming world; includes glossary, additional resources, and index"--Provided by publisher.
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Pierre-Richard Agénor is the Hallsworth Professor of International Macroeconomics and Development Economics at the University of Manchester and codirector of the Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research. He is the coauthor of Development Macroeconomics (Princeton) and author of The Economics of Adjustment and Growth, among other books.
A framework for the analysis of public investment in the developing world
In the past three decades, developing...
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Help people help themselves: That's the idea behind microcredit. Small loans-sometimes no more than $50-can radically improve the life of a poor family. Where development aid and billion-dollar loans fail, microcredit is emerging as the success story in the battle against world poverty. People who were previously considered "unbankable" no longer have to look to loan sharks for funding. With microcredit, they can become owners of small businesses....
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Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the rest of the population, especially the very poor. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires...
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A Rallying Cry! "Town INC is less of a book than it is a rallying cry! You'll never look at any town or city the same way again." Ann Handley, author of Wall Street Journal bestseller, Everybody Writes A groundbreaking book based on a simple, rarely used, concept. Town Inc. a must-read for any entrepreneur who wants to claim their fame and every city leader hoping to turn their place into the next best thing. Joe Pulizzi, Founder, Content Marketing...
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We live in the midst of one of the greatest technological revolutions in history, an era of deep-seated transformation-a macro shift in civilization, says preeminent scholar and futurist Ervin Laszlo. Its signs and manifestations are all around us, from the deadly HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping Africa and the dangerous fire-trap sweatshops routinely killing workers in Bangladesh, to the environmental havoc created by genetic engineering, power plant pollution...
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The resource curse, or paradox of plenty, refers to the long-established notion central in development economics that countries rich in natural resources, particularly minerals and fuels, perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources. In other words, resources are an economic curse rather than a blessing.
This short primer explores the complexities of this idea and the debates that surround it, in particular under what...
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Es tentador afirmar que la pobreza es una enfermedad de las sociedades contemporáneas. Su carácter crónico y devastador, la dificultad para extirparla, los crueles daños que causa: todo justifica la metáfora. En las últimas décadas, con gran ingenio y precisión, Esther Duflo ha llevado esta analogía a un plano distinto, pues ha sabido adaptar la lógica de la experimentación médica al combate a la miseria, primero para entender cómo funciona...
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The author, an attorney for small businesses, describes what individuals and small communities can do to protect their town, local property values, local jobs and business opportunities, and standard of living. This book is essential reading for every resident and small retailer in a town trying to compete with the major retailers already in town, or making plans to come to your town, such as Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, BJ's, Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond,...
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More than half of the 116 research parks now operating in the United States were established during the 1980s, with the aim of boosting regional economic growth. But until now no one has systematically analyzed whether research parks do in fact generate new businesses and jobs. Using their own surveys of all existing parks and case studies of three of the most successful--Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, Stanford Research Park in California,...
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El neoliberalismo es la antítesis de la democracia participativa, pues es una ideología que promueve una regresión hacia la acumulación de privilegios. Este libro analizará cómo el modelo neoliberal mexicano hace que la élite, situada en la cúspide de la pirámide social, genere un impacto en la distribución del ingreso brutalmente regresiva, en la que los pobres se hacen cada vez más pobres y los ricos más ricos. Se abordará una relación...
15) The Structural Transformation of Latin America: A Catalyst for a Sustained and Inclusive Development
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Since the 1980s, the pace of Latin American economic growth has been erratic and notably lower than the world average. As a result, the region has been losing relative importance in the global context, as evidenced by abundant statistical information. Latin America's lag is multifaceted, it includes the economic, scientific, technological, social, and institutional fields. The productive structure of Latin American countries continues to be characterized...
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This collection of articles presents short reflections on various dimensions of development. Development is a broad concept and can mean anything to anybody. But, in this book, it is all about development of human beings, of the land and the mother earth and all about how we interact with each other and with physical environment, how the technologies affect humans from time to time and how development enhances human happiness or misery in different...
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International business and economic literature counts Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as one of the most essential components of the globalization process. This research book consists of two parts and presents evidence of the impact of foreign direct investment on the U.S. economy and the economy of Central and Eastern Europe. Foreign direct investment plays an extraordinary and growing role in the global markets and represents an integral part of...
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Les modles de dveloppement les plus souvent appliqus dans nos pays ont des faiblesses, car il sagit le plus souvent des conceptions dhommes de science et de dirigeants politiques qui ne tiennent pas compte de certaines ralits vivantes surtout dans les pays en dveloppement. Cest la raison pour laquelle il faut en proposer dautres. Lorsque nous nous livrons quelques rflexions sur notre tude, nous ralisons combien il est difficile de russir une recherche...
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American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again....
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The biggest and most controversial offset programme in Hungary was the one connected with the acquisition of the Swedish Gripen jetfighters. The primary topic of the research is the influence of the Hungarian Gripen offset agreement on the domestic economy and its potential in terms of economic development, technology transfer and other benefits during the programme period. Moreover the research evaluates the implementation of the offset programme...
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