Intellectual property rights

legal and economic challenges for development

In recent years, Intellectual Property Rights - both in the form of patents and copyrights - have expanded in their coverage, the breadth and depth of protection, and the tightness of their enforcement. Moreover, for the first time in history, the IPR regime has become increasingly uniform ...

Time for a visible hand

lessons from the 2008 world financial crisis

Eds. Stephany Griffith-Jones, José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz. The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, has spread to developing countries and has turned into a global financial meltdown. Governments and Central Banks-though taking many and costly measures-seem powerless to stop the ...

Debates on the measurement of global poverty

Eds. Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, Joseph E. Stiglitz. The international community's commitment to halve global poverty by 2015 has been enshrined in the first Millennium Development Goal. How global poverty is measured is a critical element in assessing progress towards this goal, and different ...

The Washington consensus reconsidered

towards a new global governance

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyer and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Covering ...

Stability with growth

macroeconomics, liberalization and development

There is growing dissatisfaction with the economic policies advocated by the IMF and other international financial institutions - policies that have often resulted in stagnating growth, crises, and recessions for client countries. This book presents an alternative to "Washington Consensus" neo-liberal economic policies, by showing that ...