The idealist

Jeffrey Sachs and the quest to end poverty

Jeffrey Sachs is a rock-star economist and advisor to leaders with struggling economies from Bolivia to Poland to Russia. He switched from hard-edged economist to humanitarian when he undertook to end world poverty, writing The End of Poverty (2005) and launching the Millennium Villages Project ...

Failed states and institutional decay

understanding instability and poverty in the developing world

What do we mean by failed states and why is this concept important to study? The "failed states" literature is important because it aims to understand how state institutions (or lack thereof) impact conflict, crime, coups, terrorism and economic performance. In spite of this objective ...

Growth of the international economy, 1820-2015

Kenwood and Lougheed's classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades. For this fifth edition, Michael Graff has brought the story up to date to include events from the early part of the twenty first century ...

Speculation, trading, and bubbles

As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles -- those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow to agree on the underlying forces behind these events. In this book Jose ...

¿Quo vadis, Cuba?

la incierta senda de las reformas

Tras diversos episodios de crisis, su economía está emplazada a alterar las bases de su funcionamiento pretérito. El problema es que, aunque se conozcan las insuficiencias del escenario de partida, se tiene menos claro cuál es la senda que se debe recorrer y el escenario ...

Regreso al futuro

cultura y desarrollo en África

Los países africanos no se han visto afectados por la Gran Recesión —contagiados por los problemas de los países desarrollados—, sino que, al contrario, gozan de un periodo de expansión económica debido al auge del comercio con los países emergentes (BRICS), con los que han ...

Beyond the developmental state

industrial policy into the twenty-first century

Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes. Through this approach, the contributors show the close interrelation between states and markets in both national and international ...

Stumbling giant

the threats to China's future

While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of ...

The growth map

economic opportunity in the brics and beyond

Jim O'Neill, one of the most influential economists today, shares his insights on how and why he developed one of the most compelling economic concepts of our time in "The Growth Map". "O'Neill has redefined how investors and Western business leaders see the ...

The big flatline

oil and the no-growth economy

In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling "Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller," Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where growth is ...

El crecimiento mesurado y transitorio en el sur

La Tierra es un sistema complejo que el autor divide en seis mundos, en lugar de los tres clásicos en los que se suele dividir actualmente —Primero, Segundo y Tercer Mundo—. Es decir, en realidad, existen, además del Primer Mundo —prepotente, solvente y consumista—, otros ...

Hay vida después de la crisis

Una propuesta coherente y creíble para superar la crisis y dejar atrás el desánimo en que hemos caído. Desde el comienzo de la crisis financiera en 2008 vivimos tiempos inciertos. Por primera vez en décadas, las perspectivas de la ciudadanía están teñidas de un pesimismo ...

Africa emerges

consummate challenges, abundant opportunities

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled 'dark continent.' Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growth and political progress. The new Africa has begun to banish the miseries of the past, and appears ready to play an important role in world ...

Economic growth and the environment

an introduction to the theory

Economic Growth and the Environment explores the debate on how to reconcile economic growth with protection of the natural environment, and the closely related discussion on whether an increasing scarcity of natural resources will eventually force economic growth to cease. The debate focusses on whether ...

The economy of modern India

from 1860 to the twenty-first century

Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy over the last 150 years. He ...

The financial crisis and the global south

a development perspective

This book is a major contribution exploring the policy options available for developing and emerging economies in response to the global economic crises. Written by a highly respected development economist, the book gives a clear-eyed account of the issues particular to these countries and critically ...

Profiting from monetary policy

The Financial Crisis has brought the pensions time bomb centre stage due to a decade of low returns increasing unfunded pension liabilities and lowering future retirement incomes. This is because most investors have been unable to avoid the substantial volatility in asset prices and capital ...

China's growth

China's economic growth has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world to its second largest economy. Understanding the drivers of growth remains elusive as the country is affected by both its transition from central planning and the challenges of a ...

The poorer nations

a possible history of the global south

In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the 70s, the countries ...

Diagnóstico para el fortalecimiento institucional de los gobiernos locales en Ecuador

En esta obra se identifican las necesidades y las demandas de fortalecimiento institucional y de asesoramiento técnico en materia de desarrollo económico social de la provincia de Loja (Ecuador) para ofrecer líneas estratégicas de cooperación. La sistematización de la información, tanto cualitativa como cuantitativa, realizada ...