Development economics and emerging economies

Almost 10 years ago the mineral-rich country of Mongolia experienced very rapid economic growth, fuelled by China's need for coal and copper.

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This classic work remains one of the most incisive contributions to dependency theory in the Latin American context.

Microfinance investment funds are a recent development that will grow in importance.

Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs.

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world's population started to experience extraordinary economic growth-leading to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world.

A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you thinkif you learn to think like a commoner The biggest "e;tragedy of the commons"e; is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State.

Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues.

Attendre est croire en cet inconnaissable qui est de facto l'avenir.

Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues.

The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our livesIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy.

Do you have a brilliant film idea – but don't know how to turn it into a compelling script?