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In India, the tilt
towards economic
liberalisation started in
1985 when Government
announced a series of
measures aimed at
deregulation and
liberalisation of
industry. This book
traces developments in
different aspects of
industrialization during
the post-Independence
period.
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Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) have
emerged as an engine of
growth in several
developed and developing
economies of the world.
This book examines the
constraints and the
required changes which
could convert the
challenges to
opportunities, helping
the SMEs sector emerges
as the saviour of the
Indian economy in terms
of employment generation.
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East Asia's development
experience, at least
until its crisis in 1997,
has been a source of
hope for other countries
in the South. And in
modern economic theory,
it has been at the centre
of the debate about how
the role of the state
relates to processes of
intentional economic
progress.
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Uses a postcolonial lens
to question development's
dominant cultural
representations and
institutional practices,
investigating the
possibilities for a
transformatory
postcolonial politics.
This book examines
development policy
initiatives in such areas
as 'governance, ' 'human
rights' and
'participation'.
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Balanced regional
development has been an
integral part of economic
planning in India since
the launching of the
First Five Year Plan in
1951. This work provides
an introduction to
policies, programmes,
and the issues pertaining
to balanced development
of various parts of the
Indian economy.
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The enactment of the
Right to Information
(RTI) Act 2005 was a
landmark in the history
of administration in
India. This book contains
18 research papers
contributed by
researchers, social
thinkers and
academicians, who have
studied the scope,
different provisions,
strengths and shortfalls
of the RTI Act.
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China has been the
fastest-growing major
nation for the past
quarter of a century. The
enterprises, even the
state-owned ones, make
their own production and
operation decisions
gearing to market demands
instead of the
administrative
arrangements. This book
presents an objective
analysis on China's
economic reform and
practices in these
fields.
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Surveys major economic
issues in the development
of countries in the
Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) region
since World War II. This
book covers topics such
as, patterns of growth,
economic reform
strategies, the role of
OPEC and oil in
development, water
scarcity and agricultural
policies, population,
education strategies,
and labor markets.
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Paul Collier's
contributions to
development economics,
and in regard to Africa
in particular, have
marked him out as one of
the most influential
commentators of recent
times. This collection of
his major writings
provides an account of a
range of macroeconomic,
microeconomic and
political economy topics
concerned with Africa.
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Paul Collier's
contributions to
development economics,
and in regard to Africa
in particular, have
marked him out as one of
the most influential
commentators of recent
times. This collection of
his major writings
provides an account of a
range of macroeconomic,
microeconomic and
political economy topics
concerned with Africa.
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This book offers a global
overview of the extant
research on ethics in
small and medium sized
enterprises from major
regions of the world. It
presents research
projects from a variety
of countries that show
both empirical and
theoretical research in
the area.
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In light of the Asian
financial crisis of 1997,
Lai examines whether
East Asian economies
converged onto the
liberal market model by
studying the evolution of
the financial sectors of
Korea, Malaysia and
Thailand. This includes
sectoral diversification,
the nature of
competition, and the
regulatory and
supervisory frameworks.
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Responding to new
thinking about economic
development and changed
economic circumstances,
governments' perceptions
of their own role in the
management of their
economies have shifted.
This volume distils the
thinking eight economists
on this changing function
of government.
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This path-breaking book
argues that development
is not a way of bettering
other people but of
governing them. With
examples drawn from
Mozambique, Ethiopia and
Afghanistan, the book
analyses the NGO
movement, humanitarian
intervention,
sustainable development,
human security, fragile
states, migration and
the place of racism
within development.
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This book reflects on
current thinking in
development economics and
on what may happen over
the next two decades. As
well as studying
development economics in
retrospect, the volume
explores the current
debates and challenges
and looks forward at the
problems that affect the
global capacity to
achieve the Millennium
Development Goals.
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The regional development
banks (RDBs) are
important global
institutions. Designed to
provide readers with a
guide to the RDBs, the
author exposes the
political nature of RDB
development lending and
demonstrates the need to
include the RDBs in any
discussion of reform of
the global economic
architecture.
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Balanced regional
development has always
been an essential
component of the Indian
development strategy in
order to ensure the unity
and integrity of the
nation. This work
describes and examines
various dimensions of
regional economic
disparities in India.
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This investigation of
China's reform process
over the years 1979-1987
analyzes China's gradual
transition to a market
economy. It concludes
that, although the
reform programme has been
a qualified success,
further progress requires
the introduction of
private ownership.
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Discusses the efforts to
address issues like
encouraging less
successful sectors of the
economy that have been
complicated by forces of
globalization and the
ever-changing realities
of global economy and
appraises issues
pertaining to economic
reforms.
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Kenya is a country of
geopolitical and economic
importance in East
Africa. This critical
analysis of sustainable
development in
post-independence Kenya
offers a comprehensive
policy framework within
the context of the
opportunities provided by
the 2010 constitution.
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This book explores the
gendered nature of the
historical emergence of
modern finance markets
and their expansion to a
now global scale. It
analyses the ways in
which women were and
still are marginalized in
terms of financial
activity and associated
structures of power which
play a critical role in
shaping the contemporary
global political economy.
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Structural adjustment
programmes are the
largest single cause of
increased poverty,
inequality and hunger in
developing countries.
This is a comprehensive,
real-life assessment of
the impacts of the
liberalization,
deregulation,
privatization and
austerity that constitute
structural adjustment.
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While science has
achieved a remarkable
understanding of nature,
affording humans an
astonishing technological
capability, it has led,
through Euro-American
global domination, to
the muting of other
cultural views and
values, even threatening
their continued
existence.
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While the importance of
innovation to economic
development is widely
understood, the
conditions conducive to
it remain the focus of
much attention. This
title offers
contributions to
fundamental questions
relating to the economics
of innovation and
technological change.
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Mineral economies are
less successful than
their resource-deficient
neighbours. This book
examines this paradox,
detailing problems faced
by mineral economies. It
claims the key factor is
not the initial growth,
but the maintenance of
the economic and social
conditions for sustaining
that growth.
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Sustainable development
has become buzzword in
different form across the
globe. The field of
sustainable development
is conceptually divided
into four general
dimensions: social,
economic, environmental
and institutional. This
book argues for
sustainable development.
It examines the
environmental
implications of the
economic development
process.
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An exploration of the
human-related aspects of
sustainable development.
It emphasizes the need to
move away from an
unwanted circumstance by
being systemic in our
thinking instead of
symptomatic. In other
words, we must stop
treating symptoms without
dealing with the cause.
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Traditional development
economics has recently
been revolutionized by
the application of new
economic tools and
concepts. 'Development
Microeconomics' is the
first in a series of
books which looks at the
entire spectrum of
development economics
issues.
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Genetically modified (GM)
(or transgenic) crops are
produced using plant
biotechnology to select
desirable characteristics
in plants and transfer
genes from one organism
to another. This title
provides a perspective on
the policy questions
regarding GM crops and to
help foster an
intellectual climate
conducive to achieving
meaningful progress.
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This book offers a step
forward in finding out
how the new decentralized
institutional
arrangements affect local
economic development. In
particular, it analyzes
how local governments can
use their increasing
powers and
responsibilities to
improve productivity and
quality of life in their
territories.
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Shows how Nobel
Prize-winning economist
Amartya Sen's capability
approach can be
coherently put to work in
poverty reduction
activities, so that the
voices and values of the
poor matter. This
provides economists,
philosophers,
theologians, and
practitioners with a way
forward that addresses
both theoretical and
practical challenges.
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Examines the long-term
economic growth that has
raised the West's
material living standards
to levels undreamed of by
counterparts. This book
argues that this growth
has been driven by
periodic technological
revolutions that have
transformed the West's
economic, social and
political landscape over
time.
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Weaves together the
threads of peak oil,
resource depletion,
economic instability,
and climate change and
offers solutions,
including: concrete
strategies for personal
adaptation; workable
models of self-reliant
local communities; and,
frameworks to support
international action on
financial and economic
reform.
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Taking the 2008 Olympic
Games in Beijing as an
iconic turning-point and
exploring key themes such
as economic reform and
sustainability,
innovation and
sustainability,
globalisation and social
development, this book
analyses the prospects
for sustainable reform
and development in
Post-Olympic China.
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Represents thirty-five
papers grouped into these
major subject categories:
foundational issues; the
method of constitutional
economics; incentives and
constitutional choice;
constitutional order;
market order;
distributional issues;
fiscal and monetary
constitutions; and,
reform.
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Locates the Poverty
Reduction Strategy Paper
framework within the
broader context of
international law and
global governance,
exploring its impact on
third world state
engagement with the
global political economy
and the international
regulatory norms and
institutions which
support it.
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This volume collects
together papers from the
1999 ABCDE in Europe
given by some of the most
prominent thinkers on
development issues. These
papers reflect the fact
that economic trends are
demanding a more intense
and dynamic flow of ideas
and expertise between the
developed and developing
worlds.
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Critically evaluates the
leading theories of
international economic
development, from
classical economic and
sociological models to
Marxist,
poststructuralist, and
feminist perspectives.
This book also examines
neoliberal conceptions of
economic growth.
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Offers a look at
government confiscatory
regulation of private
property in the name of
protecting so-called
endangered plant and
wildlife species that
trample on Fifth
Amendment guarantees.
This book focuses on the
extreme green movement
that has cost many
Americans their lives,
jobs, and homes while
saving only a handful of
species.
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Developing a new idea
requires money, which
poses a problem of trust.
This title proposes a
legal theory of economic
growth that details how
property, contract, and
business laws help to
unite capital and ideas.
It demonstrates why
ineffective private and
business laws are the
root cause of the poverty
of nations in today's
world.
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Resilience,
sustainability - these
two words catch the
spirit of the early
twenty-first century.
After a century of
environmental neglect -
in fact denial, by some
of the worst polluters in
the world - we have
awoken. Global warming is
a reality. This book
shows how to survive the
twenty-first century.
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The twenty-first century
will be defined by the
fight against the
scourges of poverty,
inequality, and the
threat of environmental
collapse. This book
argues that it requires a
radical redistribution of
power, opportunities,
and assets to break the
cycle of poverty and
inequality and to give
poor people power over
their own destinies.
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Provides an analysis of
the main Chinese
industrial sectors
through case studies,
data analysis and review
of state-initiated
policies. This book uses
key sectors including
automobile, steel,
shipbuilding, high-speed
railway and new energy,
to analyze the
development of China's
industries, along with
their challenges and
future prospects.
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The institutional
endowment of a country
determines government's
regulatory choices, the
public policies,
incentives, and the
direction of economic
activities in the country
and the level of the
economic efficiency. This
title examines how
institutional endowment
in Turkey influence
economic and political
structure.
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This book is about the
process of institutional
change: its
characteristics,
determinants and
implications for economic
performance. With
specific focus on Central
Europe, Eastern Europe
and Central Asia, this
revised and updated
edition examines the
process of development,
and its interdependence
with institutions.
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Offers an overview of
potential challenges
related to
infrastructure, lop
sided growth, corruption
and education in India.
This book explores
potential opportunities
and pitfalls in business
sectors such as software,
business process
outsourcing,
manufacturing,
logistics, aviation,
marketing and sales, and
healthcare.
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The 9th edition of
Thirlwall's 'Economics of
Development: Theory and
Evidence' (formerly
Growth and Development)
represents the most
thorough revision of this
classic textbook to date.
For nearly forty years,
it has offered students a
clear, comprehensive and
rigorous overview of the
economic aspects of
growth and development.
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The three volumes of the
original work have been
merged and edited to
produce an abridged
paperback that will be
useful for students. The
papers address a wide
range of issues centred
around solutions to the
problems of international
hunger and deprivation.
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Offers comprehensive
coverage of traditional
economic problems and
issues. This book
presents traditional
topics such as location
of activities, growth
and development,
economic structure, land
use, neighborhood
development, and
governance in ways that
connect theory to 'the
ground' realities.
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This book explores the
various traps that keep
people mired in poverty,
traps like poor
nutrition, illiteracy,
lack of access to health
care, and others and
presents eight keys to
escaping these traps.
Smith gives readers the
tools they need to help
people overcome poverty
and to determine what
approaches are most
effective in fighting it.
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Argues that much of
foreign aid's failure is
related to the
institutions that
structure its delivery.
This book explores the
workings of Sida and
finds that Sida's
institutions lead to
perverse incentives and
poor outcomes in the
field. It also offers
concrete suggestions
about how to improve
aid's effectiveness.
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Offers a perspective on
the transformation that
is reshaping China's
economic, social, and
political systems. This
title includes
information across
China's provinces and
cities. It argues that,
while the US struggles to
restore its position in
the world, China is
creating an entirely
fresh social and economic
model for a 21st-century.
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Asia's demand for
second-generation
financial institutions
and markets needs to be
met in order for the
region's further
development to be
sustained. This book
provides an assessment of
practices and regulations
in Asia's financial
institutions and markets
and documents the
opportunities and
challenges that lie in
the region's financial
systems.
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Showcases how leading
managers perceive the
economic crisis and the
future of globalization.
This book offers answers,
solutions and a roadmap
for the roadblocks facing
future economic growth
which are proposed by
leading minds from
companies such as CISCO
Systems, British
Telecom, Lufthansa
Technik, Henkel, Roland
Berger, Kienbaum, and
T-Systems.
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Emerging markets are big
news. But after the
financial crisis, what
does the future really
hold for them? And what
does this future mean for
global business? George
Magnus, one of the
world's most respected
economic analysts, is
your guide through the
challenges and
opportunities for
emerging markets and
those doing business in
them.
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Demonstrates how Dubai's
pioneering post-oil
development strategies
were implemented against
a carefully managed
backdrop of near complete
political stability,
despite the lack of
democratisation and
genuine civil society.
This work also analyses
Dubai's awkward
relationship with its
federal partners in the
United Arab Emirates.
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This book rejects the
simple equation of
capitalism with markets
in favor of a three-level
system -- a model that
recognizes markets are
administered by
regulators through
institutions, and
governed by a political
authority with the power
to regulate behavior,
punish transgressors,
and redesign
institutions.
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Turkish agriculture has
been experiencing a
period of unique policy
experiment over the
years. A World
Bank-initiated project,
called the Agricultural
Reform Implementation
Project (ARIP), has been
at the forefront of
policy change. This book
investigates the legacy
of ARIP from a
multi-disciplinary
perspective.
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This volume offers a
critical look at what the
science of ecology can
and cannot provide to the
development agenda, in
light of the Millennium
Development goals. The
concluding section
integrates lessons and
principles outlined in
each of the chapters.
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Offers a unified approach
for achieving sustainable
development in
industrialized nations.
This title presents an
analysis of the ways in
which industrial states
are unsustainable and how
economic and social
welfare are related to
the environment, to
public health and safety,
and to earning capacity
and meaningful and
rewarding employment.
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In an effort to
understand the reasons
for and consequences of
the political backlash to
the U.S. Supreme Court
decision, Kelo v. New
London, this book brings
together a diverse group
of scholars and
practitioners who explore
the uses and abuses of
eminent domain and
regulatory takings.
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Distils complex issues
surrounding Africa at the
beginning of the 21st
century. This book
provides a 'map' for the
reader to navigate
between issues such as
urban and rural
livelihoods, the
potential of fresh water
fishing, health, the
HIV/AIDS crisis,
conflict and efforts at
peacemaking.
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Here, contributors
provide a set of studies
of emerging development
issues, ranging from
foundational matters to
case studies. They
address issues on the
role of environmental
resources in the
development process,
presenting explanations
of existing situations
and policies for the
future.
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While the Indian economy
has performed well in
terms of growth rate of
GDP in the recent past,
its performance in the
form of human development
indicators has been
unsatisfactory. This book
examines various issues
associated with social
uplift of Indian masses.
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This is a revised and
updated version of the
celebrated 'Best Book on
Chinese Economy'. It sets
out to analyze and
compare the operational
mechanisms of the Chinese
economy between the pre-
and post-reform periods
and through national,
regional and local
dimensions.
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Economic development that
is environmentally,
socially and ethically
sound is at the forefront
of contemporary debates
all over the world. This
book looks at
Bangladesh's ready-made
garments (RMG) industry -
facing demands for
environmental and social
management according to
standards set by
consumers in
environmentally
progressive societies.
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India is the world's
twelfth largest economy
at market exchange rates
and the third largest in
purchasing power.
Economic reforms have
transformed it into the
second fastest growing
economy; however, it
suffers from high levels
of poverty, illiteracy,
malnutrition and
environmental
degradation. This book
presents issues dealing
with India.
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From bananas and coffee
beans to cotton and
chocolate, Fairtrade has
grown to become an
important global movement
that has revolutionised
the way we shop. This
work explores the
journey, through an
often unjust system,
that Fairtrade items make
from farm to consumer. It
also uncovers the
shocking cost of our
demand for cheaper food.
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The World Bank has
attracted equal amounts
of criticism and praise.
Critics are especially
quick to decry the World
Bank's hypocrisy - the
pervasive gaps between
the organization's talk,
decisions, and actions.
This book explores how
the characteristics of
change in a complex
international
organization make
hypocrisy difficult to
resolve.
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Unique in its approach
and in the methods and
data employed, this book
provides an in-depth
evaluation of the
financial system of
Thailand, a
proto-typical developing
economy. It is useful not
only as a guide to the
Thai economy but more
importantly as a means of
assessing the impact that
financial institutions
and policy variation can
have.
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This volume examines the
history of developmental
policy in Sub-Saharan
Africa and considers how
different policy options
might generate sustained
economic growth and
reduce poverty. It
documents and interprets
policy lessons and
considers how to
translate them to
particular country
contexts.
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An expose on how the rise
of China will affect the
American way of life The
End of Cheap China is a
fun, riveting,
must-read book not only
for people doing business
in China but for anyone
interested in
understanding the forces
that are changing the
world.
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Agricultural production
in India depends upon
millions of small
farmers. This book
explains the system of
agricultural finance in
India. It provides an
analysis of the role of
NABARD as the apex
refinance body, in
promoting agricultural
and rural development in
India.
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Why does capitalism fail
to thrive in Africa? And
is there an alternative
system that will enhance
economic development?
This title focuses on the
cultural influences, the
traditional concept of
Ubuntu with its emphasis
on community, sharing
and generosity, to
establish an approach to
economics that is rooted
in African belief
systems.
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Follows the foreign aid
money trail into the
grasping hands of corrupt
governments and shady
underworld characters.
This book proposes
solutions that can make a
difference to the world's
poor - including cash
infusions to defuse
violence in times of
drought, and steering
the World Bank away from
aid programs that are
susceptible to
corruption.
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India's economic
interests and its self
imagination as an
emerging global power
have assumed a higher
priority in defining
India's foreign policy
and security goals since
early 1990s. This book
deals with evolving
political and economic
dynamics and interactions
of India with global and
regional powers in West
Asia.
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This book focuses on the
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The most populous country
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The most recent account
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This book analyzes
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Describes how to do a
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Asks why economies of
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By 'economic growth'
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services - its national
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Rural infrastructure in
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Analyses the political
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