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The difficult economic climate in Europe and the United States since the financial crisis is set to continue as the New Normal, despite frantic efforts to stimulate growth. The long phase of expansion that lasted from the 1980s until 2008 was driven by easy money, cheap imports and confidence — all gone. And the shift of geopolitical power to Asia is permanent. This does not mean that Western economies are inevitably condemned to 'lost decades'...
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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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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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This is an appeal to the Africans in the Diaspora, whether you are a doctor, engineer, lawyer, economist, social worker, nurse, physical therapist, occupational therapist, nurse assistant, cleaner, taxi driver, entrepreneur or whatever your area of occupation, your quota is needed by the continent of Africa. Little drops of water as the saying goes could make an ocean. Start to think of something you can contribute today.
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He's a fourteen-year-old boy, taken to fight in war. She's his twin sister, desperate to save him.
Patish and Leeta enjoy an idyllic life in their ancient Indian village - until a battle over diminishing water supply threatens their world. While Patish trains as the warrior he'd never planned to be, duty falls on Leeta to make a perilous journey for the wisdom of the mysterious Purple Sage.
When the final command is given and the armies are...
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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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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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La bioeconomía se fundamenta en paradigmas de producción basados en procesos biológicos. Contribuye a transformar el conocimiento de las ciencias biológicas en productos nuevos, sostenibles, ecoeficientes y competitivos capaces de mejorar la calidad de vida de la creciente población mundial. Esta publicación establece a la bioeconomía como uno de los paradigmas de América Latina y el Caribe, ya que son regiones con una enorme riqueza y bien...
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El libro presenta un conjunto de ensayos escritos por diversos autores especialistas en el sector empresarial, donde comparten su preparación y experiencia en este ámbito. Propone una visión original, eficaz y competitiva de las empresas modernas, además de que incita al lector a emprender y crear nuevos proyectos que solucionen las problemáticas actuales.
El coordinador de la obra, Jose Antonio Dávila, es director del Centro de Investigación...
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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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La tentación del rey Midas es un libro en contra de la abstracción, pero a favor del pensamiento. intenta contribuir al análisis de la realidad económica, social y política, partiendo del principio de que cualquier tipo de conocimiento sólo puede captar una fracción de la realidad y de que la realidad, previa a los conceptos e inabarcable por ellos, acaba siempre por salir a la luz en el choque de contradicciones y relaciones sociales y de...
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Chile hoy tiene el enorme desafío de generar una matriz productiva que asegure el bienestar social, la democracia y la sostenibilidad medioambiental. En ese desafío, resulta crucial analizar ejemplos exitosos de desarrollo productivo que nos puedan proveer lecciones sobre éxitos y fracasos en los intentos de transitar hacia el crecimiento sostenible, con empleos de calidad e inclusión social. Este libro contribuye un relevante e interesante análisis...
54) 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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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...
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Esta obra se concentra en un país (Bolivia) y en un período específico (las primeras décadas post-independencia), pero analiza una temática que es recurrente para entender el desarrollo de largo plazo de América Latina. ¿Cómo la existencia de estructuras económicas abigarradas permiten el desarrollo de sectores exportadores modernos? Y a la inversa, ¿cuál puede ser el impacto de largo plazo de una estrategia de desarrollo basada en las...
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Summary of Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | Includes Analysis Preview: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty is an examination of the causes of economic inequality. Authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson conclude that underdevelopment is caused by political institutions and not by geography, climate, or other cultural factors. Elites in underdeveloped countries deliberately plunder their people...
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Que peut-on dire de la gestion financière des PME ? Évaluer la qualité de leur gestion à la lumière de leur taux de fermeture pourrait nous amener à conclure qu'elle fait défaut. Or, ce serait inexact, car cela fait abstraction de certaines caractéristiques de ces entreprises, de la diversité de leur mode de fonctionnement et, surtout, de leur grande hétérogénéité. Parce qu'il n'existe pas de PME type, il n'existe pas non plus de comportement...
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Dans un contexte de mondialisation, alors que les modes de régulation se structurent de plus en plus à l'échelle internationale, la prise de décision sur les enjeux sociétaux fondamentaux tend de plus en plus à échapper aux acteurs locaux et régionaux. En même temps, en raison du désengagement des États, un nombre croissant de responsabilités sont transférées aux acteurs locaux, aussi bien en ce qui a trait au développement économique...
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"Native rural Virginian and now Chief technology officer at Microsoft, Kevin Scott, discusses the future of AI and how it can be realistically used to promote growth even as the job landscape shifts"--
"There are two prevailing stories about AI: for heartland low- and middle-skill workers, a dystopian tale of steadily increasing job destruction; for urban knowledge workers and the professional class, a utopian tale of enhanced productivity and convenience....
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