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2) What's the Economy for, Anyway?: Why it's Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness
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Bloomsbury Press
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2011
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English
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"What's The Economy For, Anyway? is a thought-provoking, funny, readable, anti-ideological book based on the cult hit film of the same name. Here, scholars John de Graaf (author of Affluenza) and David Batker tackle thirteen touchstone economic issues and challenge readers to consider just what the point of our economy is. Emphasizing powerful American ideals such as working together, pragmatism, and equality for all, de Graaf and Batker set forth...
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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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The strategy of development, which is, seen in action in the Northeast in indeed impressive. More funds are being, pumped in to hasten the pace of progress of this region. Many aspects of developments have pointed out by eminent scholars in deferent ways. Hydro-Power Potentialities, Agriculture and Allied Sectors, Manpower development, Mineral Development, Development of Transportation Infrastructure, Impact of irrigation, New Strategy for tribal...
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Ce manuel propose une démarche pédagogique pour comprendre les trois principales dimensions du développement territorial, soit l'occupation, la gouvernance et l'innovation. Les théories, les modèles et les concepts pertinents sont à cet effet exposés et illustrés à travers la diversité des territoires qui fait la richesse du Québec.
6) Somaliland
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This publication, which focuses on Somaliland, lays out a strategy for inclusive growth that creates jobs, reduces poverty, improves the lives and livelihoods of the population, and enhances the government's revenue base so that it can deliver basic services to the public. Based on the private sector, which accounts for 90% of Somaliland's GDP, the proposed strategy aims at just growth but also the transformation of the economic base to a diversified,...
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El desarrollo de los países latinoamericanos en las últimas cinco décadas ha sido errático e insuficiente. Medido por diversos índices, América Latina ha venido perdiendo relevancia en el mundo y muy particularmente en relación con las economías emergentes del Asia. Las políticas adoptadas para promover el desarrollo no dieron los resultados esperados; la estructura productiva no ha evolucionado significativamente y la dependencia de las...
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En tiempos de crisis las empresas desarrollan soluciones para poder atajar los retos que se presentan. No basta con ser innovadores, resilientes y creativos en una forma holística. Es relevante incorporar en el adn de la empresa la agilidad como catalizador para agregar valor en todos y cada uno de los los procesos que se impactan. Los invito a encontrar en este libro la respuesta para enfrentar los desafíos en el dinámico mundo virtual y digital...
9) América Latina en su Laberinto: La maraña multifacética que condiciona el destino latinoamericano
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Desde finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los países latinoamericanos han venido ensayando, en lo político, con dictaduras militares, regímenes autoritarios, democráticos, socialistas y comunistas; y en el campo económico, con políticas proteccionistas, neoliberales, intervencionistas e híbridas, que combinan cualidades de las anteriores. Sin embargo, con ninguno de estos experimentos lograron resultados exitosos ni perdurables. No obstante,...
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"Flow" is a book that examines the core question of: How can financial systems open flow of finance for all?
An impediment to delivering sustainable development is that finance is not flowing to everywhere that it is needed. "Flow" unpacks why this is the case, and what we can do about it.
This is a book about hope. In the end, the book comes down to a single proposition captured in a single word. Flow. It is the flow of finance to all that ultimately...
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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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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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Beginning in the 1950s, Tawian rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. And though President Trump has called for the end of "American carnage"-the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs-domestic retailers and merchandisers still willingly ship production overseas, primarily to Taiwan. In this book, Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao show how Taiwanese businesspeople have played a tremendous, unsung...
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More than half of the 116 research parks now operating in the United States were established during the 1980s, with the aim of boosting regional economic growth. But until now no one has systematically analyzed whether research parks do in fact generate new businesses and jobs. Using their own surveys of all existing parks and case studies of three of the most successful--Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, Stanford Research Park in California,...
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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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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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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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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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This collection of articles presents short reflections on various dimensions of development. Development is a broad concept and can mean anything to anybody. But, in this book, it is all about development of human beings, of the land and the mother earth and all about how we interact with each other and with physical environment, how the technologies affect humans from time to time and how development enhances human happiness or misery in different...
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