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• Establishing utopia : exploring the political origins of economic policy in Algeria / Kay Adamson
• The tortuous and uncompleted privatisation process in Algeria / Mohammed Saad, Hakim Meliani and Mahfoud Benosman
• The role of accounting in economies in transition : the case of Algeria / Cherif Merrouche
• Matching reforms with a new approach to the management of people, learning and culture / Mohammed Saad
• Women in Algeria, dimension of a crisis and of a resistance / Cathie Uoyd
• Rural women in Algeria and their participation in economic activity : data analysis / Zine M. Barka
• Frantz Fanon and Algeria : alienation and violence / Naaman Kessous
• The 'new man' at the dawn of the Twenty-first Century : challenges and shifts in Algerian identity / Margaret A. Majumdar
• Languages policy in Algeria : between convergence and diversity / Mohammed Miliani
• Global sport and local identity in Algeria : the changing roles of football as a cultural, political and economic vehicle / Mahfoud Amara
• The development or redevelopment of tourism in Algeria / Jeremy Keenan
• Perspectives from a major foreign investor -- British Petroleum's investment in Algeria / Dai Jones.

This work addresses the impact of new technology on our ideas about art, science, philosophy and what it is to be human. It argues that many of the beliefs that emerged through the period of Industrialization are no longer useful or relevant and we must develop new ways of thinking about, and understanding, the complexity of contemporary existence. Building on the findings non-linear mathematics, advanced physics, artificial intelligence and contemporary philosophy, the text offers a re-definition of human being, the way we think and the way we perceive cultural objects. It outlines some of the dramatic developments in high technology that point to a blurring of the distinctions between the natural and the artificial, including genetics, VR, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial life and intelligence.
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• Changing Technological Leadership and Industrial Growth-- Endogenous Forces in 20th Century America-- America's Entrepreneurial Universities-- The Role of Electricity in Industrial Development-- Why Do Firms Do Basic Research?-- Medical Innovations: Some Critical Episodes in the Progress of Medical Innovation: An Anglo-American Perspective-- Capturing the Unexpected Benefits of Medical Research-- Chemicals: Chemical Engineering as a General Purpose Technology-- Successful Commercialization in the Chemical Process Industries-- A General Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the Late 19th Century US-- and other papers.
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Science and technology have become increasingly intertwined in the twentieth century. However, little attention has been paid to the forces that have brought about this condition. Indeed, many scholars have taken it simply for granted that causality always runs from science to technology. In this groundbreaking book, Rosenberg's research suggests that history and extensive empirical evidence lead to a reality that is far more complex as well as far more interesting. Here, Rosenberg's papers explore a wide range of pertinent issues, especially those connected with the innovative process, including the realms of electric power, electronics, chemicals, aircraft, medicine, instrumentation and, in particular, higher education and the organization of research activities.
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• pt. I. Introduction and methodology
• 1. Programme aid and the international financial institutions
• 2. The evaluation of programme aid: a methodological framework
• pt. II. Case studies
• 3. Development by default: programme aid to Bangladesh / Howard N. White, A. Geske Dijkstra and Jan Kees Van Donge
• 4. Supporting success: economic growth in Cape Verde in the early 1990s
• 5. Politics and partnership in Ghana in the 1980s, with reference to co-financing as a bilateral aid instrument / Howard N. White, A. Geske Dijkstra and Nii Sowa
• 6. From rehabilitation to recovery: Mozambique in the 1990s
• 7. Aid, debt and dependence: programme aid in Nicaragua.

This important contribution to the literature on development economics analyses the effectiveness of programme aid - i.e. aid that is not given in the form of projects. Using real world examples from countries such as Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam this book deals with one of the core issues in development economics today.
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• PART 1: INTRODUCTION""; ""
• Chapter 1: Policy Matters: The New Development El Dorado""; ""
• Chapter 2: Planning for Policy Making and Implementation in Kenya: Problems and Prospects""; ""
• PART 2: THE POLICY MAKING LANDSCAPE IN KENYA""; ""
• Chapter 3: A Brief History of the Development of an ICT Policy in Kenya""; ""
• Chapter 4: Mainstreaming ICTs: Private Sector Sway""

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• Chapter 5: Working from the Sidelines: The Kenya Private Sector Foundation ICT Board Story""""
• Chapter 6: A National Orchestra? Civil Society Involvement in ICT Policy Making""; ""
• Chapter 7: Universal Access: The Kenyan Experience""; ""
• Chapter 8: Electronic Agency in Policy Making: The KIP Discussion List""; ""
• PART 3: SECTORAL AND THEMATIC CASE STUDIES""; ""
• Chapter 9: The E-Government Experience in Kenya: The Story So Far""; ""
• Chapter 10: ICT Policy and ICT Initiatives: What Linkages?""

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• Chapter 11: Integrating ICT in Teacher Training: Reflections on Practice and Policy Implications
• A Case Study of the Learning Resource Centre at the Kenya Technical Teachers College""""
• Chapter 12: The Winning Formula of Computers for Schools Kenya""; ""
• Chapter 13: Positioning for Impact: Women and ICT Policy Making""; ""
• Chapter 14: Of Gateways and Gatekeepers: The History of Internet Exchange Points in Kenya and Rwanda""; ""
• PART 4: LEARNING FROM OTHERS""; ""
• Chapter 15: The Development of ICTs in Rwanda: Pioneering Experiences""

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• Chapter 16: The Uganda Knowledge and Information Society: Early Lessons from ICT Projects""""
• Chapter 17: Women on ICT Policy Making in Uganda""; ""
• Chapter 18: The E-ThinkTank and ICT Policy Making in Tanzania""; ""
• Chapter 19: Benchmarking Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Performance: Lessons for Kenya""; ""
• Chapter 20: The Making of an Information Society â€? The Finnish Experience""; ""
• PART 5: CONCLUSIONS""; ""
• Chapter 21: Postscript: Challenges of the ICT Revolution in East Africa""; ""
• Chapter 22: Policy Matters: Recommendations for Responsible Policy Making""; ""INDEX""; ""A""

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This books presents the presents the findings of the mission. It is now being used to shape policy in Viet Nam and will continue to do so in the coming years. Interested readers will include government officials and policymakers in science and technology; academics, researchers, professors, and university students in development studies, policy studies, and Asian studies; public and private businesses involved, or interested in becoming involved, in the changing economy of Viet Nam; and donor organizations and NGOs active in Viet Nam and throughout Asia.

Australia's recent economic performance has been impressive. It has experienced steady growth since the early 1990s and inflation has averaged just 2 percent over the same period. This strong showing marks a departure from the performance of the postwar years, when falling productivity and rising inflation caused Australia's per capita income to slip from one of the highest among OECD countries to merely average. The book explores this economic turnaround.
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This is the first book on the transformations wrought by Cambodia's 2002-08 economic boom. It explores the impact of the boom on governance, economic structure, and opportunities for the poor. It provides new insights into the relationship between economic growth and political stability in post-conflict societies. It is a cross-disciplinary study involving Cambodian and foreign scholars. From 2002, Cambodia underwent a visible economic transformation driven largely by such external factors as increased Chinese demand for primary commodities and a strong international demand for Cambodian garments. Apart from dramatic rates of economic growth, the boom involved the disappearance of forests and the decline of logging, the inflow of Chinese investment and the rise of indigenous capital, and the increased significance of remittances from garment workers and labour migrants. In addition, the impact of government policies on land registration and concessions transformed relations of production and, with them, the socio-economic and political environment in rural and urban Cambodia. "Cambodia's Economic Transformation" examines the political economy of the Cambodian boom, analysing the changing structure of the economy, the relationship between state and market, and outcomes for the poor. Not least, it focuses the role of the state in facilitating and controlling the market, and the way that this has affected the life chances of the poor. In so doing, it situates Cambodian experience within key debates in the wider political economy of Eastern Asia, scrutinizing the relationship between class formation, structures of governance and resource distribution. The analysis gives rise to a deeper understanding of the nature of the market as it has emerged in Cambodia over the past decade, and the prospects for how much the poor might be able to constrain tendencies towards a disproportionate accumulation of wealth by the Cambodian elite.
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• CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Contributors POVERTY, WEALTH, and STRATIFICATION: THE INTERCONNECTIONS Chapter.1 Poverty and Wealth in Postsocialist China: An Overview Deborah Davis and Wang Feng
• Chapter 2 Market vs. Social Benefits: Explaining China's Changing Income Inequality Qin Gao and Carl Riskin
• Chapter 3 Market and Gender Pay Equity: Have Chinese Reforms Narrowed the Gap? Philip N. Cohen and Wang Feng
• Chapter 4 The Two Faces of Luxury: Gender and Generational Inequality in a Beijing Hotel Eileen Otis
• Chapter 5 The Changing Structure of Employment in Contemporary China Peter Evans and Sarah Staveteig POSTSOCIALIST POWER AND PROPERTY RELATIONS
• Chapter 6 Institutional Basis of Socialist Stratification in Transitional China Liu Xin
• Chapter 7 Rethinking Corporatist Bases of Stratification in Rural China Xueguang Zhou
• Chapter 8 Creating Wealth: Land Seizure, Local Government and Farmers Zhou Feizhou
• Chapter 9 Resolution Mechanisms for Land Rights Disputes Zhang Jing POSTSOCIALIST LIFE CHANCES
• Chapter 10 Regional Inequality in China: Mortality and Health Yong Cai
• Chapter 11 Beyond Cost: Rural Perspectives on Barriers to Education Emily Hannum and Jennifer Adams
• Chapter 12 Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions Yanjie Bian INTERPRETING POSTSOCIALIST WEALTH AND POVERTY
• Chapter 13 Social Contours of Distributive Injustice Feelings in Contemporary China Chunping Han and Martin King Whyte
• Chapter 14 From Inequality to Inequity: Popular Conception of Social (In)justice in Beijing Ching Kwan Lee
• Chapter 15 Social Stratification: The Legacy of the Late Imperial Past R. Bin Wong Notes References Index.
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The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications.Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China draws on a wide variety of recent national surveys and detailed case studies to capture the diversity of postsocialist China and identify the contradictory dynamics forging contemporary social stratification. Focusing on economic inequality, social stratification, power relations, and everyday life chances, the volume provides an overview of postsocialist class order and contributes to current debates over the forces driving global inequalities. This book will be a must read for those interested in social inequality, stratification, class formation, postsocialist transformations, and China and Asian studies.
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• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: China, the EU and the WTO after Chinese Accession; Foreword; Foreword; Introduction; About the Editors; Editorial Associates; Part One China's Economy and Administration; Part Two China Within the WTO; Part Three Legal Aspects of Foreign Company Operations in China; Part Four Accounting, Auditing and Taxation in China; Part Five Market Entry and Business Development in China; Part Six Marketing Issues in China; Part Seven Banking, Foreign Exchange Transactions and Corporate Finance; Part Eight Key Sector Reports and Notes; Appendices; Index.

This revised fifth edition of Doing Business with China has been updated to take into account key changes in the legal and fiscal environment. It remains the most comprehensive guide available to all aspects of commercial engagement in China. It focuses on developments in Chinaˆs̈ business and regulatory environment over the past four years since WTO entry and on the key industry sectors where China is already a global player or which offer good opportunities for foreign investment and trade. In addition, the guide provides authoritative insight into accounting, auditing and taxation practices.

• Economics of World War II : an overview / Mark Harrison
• United Kingdom : "victory at all costs" / Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett
• United States : from ploughshares to swords / Hugh Rockoff
• Germany : guns, butter, and economic miracles / Werner Abelshauser
• Italy : how to lose the war and win the peace / Vera Zamagni
• Japan : guns before rice / Akira Hara
• Soviet Union : the defeated victor / Mark Harrison.

This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers; the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. What contribution did economics made to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war? What was the effect of wartime experiences on postwar fortunes, and did those who won the war lose the peace? A chapter is devoted to each country, reviewing its economic war potential, military-economic policies and performance, war expenditures and development, while the introductory chapter presents a comparative overview. The result of an international collaborative project, the volume aims to provide a text of statistical reference for students and researchers interested in international and comparative economic history, the history of World War II, the history of economic policy, and comparative economic systems. It embodies the latest in economic analysis and historical research.
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• 1. Introduction
• Part 1: Power, knowledge and environmental governance from a conceptual perspective
• 2. Situating Knowledges, Spatializing Communities, and Sizing Contradictions: The Challenge of Globality and Locality in Environmental Governance Tim Luke
• 3. Ecological expertise Ralf Brand & Andy Karvonen
• 4. Power, knowledge and ocean governance from a historical perspective Peter Jacques
• Part 2: From the local to the global
• 5. Multi-level-governance and the question of scale - the concept of Landscape Governance Christoph Goerg & Felix Rauschmayer
• 6. The Internationalized State: Functions and Modes of Regulation of Genetic Resources Uli Brand
• 7. Ecological Praxis: The Global Ecovillage Movement and the Scientific Ontology of Interbeing Karen Litfin
• Part 3: From the global to the local
• 8. Water for All! The Power of the World Bank and its Transnational Policy Networks Michael Goldman
• 9. Global Institutions and Environmental Change: moving beyond land-use-cover-change Tim Forsyth
• 10. Global Assistance for Local Environmental Movements: The Politics of Capacity-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina Adam Fagan
• 11. Conclusions.
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This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics. It argues that the international-level, institutionalist approach to global environmental politics has run its course, employed solely by powerful actors in order to orchestrate and manipulate local communities within a continuing hegemonic system. The outstanding international line-up of contributors to this volume explore the real advances that are being made in the areas were the local and global intersect and how power fits into the equation. They explore the relationship between governance, power and knowledge, using power as the main analytical tool. The contributors adopt a variety of approaches and perspectives - some starting from the local level and shifting upward to the global, and some using a global perspective that narrows down to the local. Some chapters explore specific case studies and others employ a more conceptual framework - but all of them bring a new dimension to the relationship between power and knowledge in environmental governance. Power here is explored in all its guises - from relational to structural power. An important and timely exploration of a topic at the forefront of global debate, Environmental Governance is essential reading for all students of global environmental politics, international political economy and international relations.
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• Understanding the 1990s : a long-run perspective / Paul W. Rhode, Gianni Toniolo
• The world economy in the 1990s : a long-run perspective / Nicholas Crafts
• Managing the world economy in the 1990s / Barry Eichengreen
• Europe : a continent in decline? / Riccardo Faini
• Technical change and US economic growth : the interwar period and the 1990s / Alexander J. Field
• General-purpose technologies : then and now / Peter L. Rousseau
• Productivity growth and the American labor market : the 1990s in historical perspective / Gavin Wright
• The 1920s and the 1990s in mutual reflection / Robert J. Gordon
• Bubbles and busts : the 1990s in the mirror of the 1920s / Eugene N. White
• The 1990s as a postwar decade / Peter Temin
• What is happening to the welfare state? / Peter H. Lindert
• The American economic policy environment of the 1990s : origins, consequences, and legacies / Michael A. Bernstein.

The 1990s were an extraordinary, contradictory, fascinating period of economic development, one evoking numerous historical parallels. But the 1990s are far from being well understood and their meaning for the future remains open to debate. In this volume, world-class economic historians analyze the growth of the world economy, globalization and its implications for domestic and international policy, the sources and sustainability of productivity growth in the USA, the causes of sluggish growth in Europe and Japan, comparisons of the Information Technologies revolution with previous innovation waves, the bubble and burst in asset prices and their impacts on the real economy, the effects of trade and factor mobility on the global distribution of income, and the changes in the welfare state, regulation, and macro-policy making. Leading scholars place the 1990s in a fuller long-run global context, offering insights into what lies ahead for the world economy in the twenty-first century.
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• Preface / Raymond E. Levitt and Ryan J. Orr
• Introduction: studying global projects / W. Richard Scott
• Part I. Foundational Themes: 1. Global projects: distinguishing features, drivers, and challenges / Ryan J. Orr, W. Richard Scott, Raymond E. Levitt, Karlos Artto, and Jaakko Kujala; 2. The institutional environment of global projects / W. Richard Scott; 3. Social movements and the growth in opposition to global projects / Doug McAdam
• Part II. Institutional Differences and Global Projects: Empirical Studies: 4. Rules versus results: sources and resolution of institutional conflicts on Indian Metro Railway projects / Ashwin Mahalingam, Raymond E. Levitt, and W. Richard Scott; 5. Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model / Ryan J. Orr and W. Richard Scott; 6. Local embeddedness of firms and strategies for dealing with uncertainty in global projects / Ryan J. Orr and Raymond E. Levitt; 7. Who needs to know what? Institutional knowledge and global projects / Amy Javernick-Will and W. Richard Scott
• Part III. Political Conflicts and Global Projects: 8. "Site fights": explaining opposition to pipeline projects in the developing world / Doug McAdam, Hilary Schaffer Boudet, Jennifer Davis, Ryan J. Orr, W. Richard Scott, and Raymond E. Levitt; 9. To talk or to fight? Effects of strategic, cultural, and institutional factors on renegotiation approaches in public-private concessions / Henry Chan and Raymond E. Levitt
• Part IV. Governance Strategies and Structures: 10. Network-based strategies and competencies for political and social risk management in global projects / Witold J. Henisz; 11. Organizations enabling public-private partnerships: an organization field approach / Stephen F. Jooste and W. Richard Scott.

As the world's population continues to grow, there is an ever increasing need for huge investment in basic infrastructure: water and sewage, energy production and distribution, transportation and telecommunication. At the same time, infrastructure systems in developed countries are deteriorating and in need of renewal. Today, many of the engineering and economic problems surrounding infrastructure construction projects have been solved, but the threat of social misalignments and political conflicts renders the development and management of such projects more challenging than ever before. This book presents a new theoretical framework that allows us to analyze the institutional and social movement processes, both negative and positive, that surround global infrastructure projects as they confront cross-national and cross-sectoral (such as private-public partnerships) institutional differences. The value of this framework is illustrated through a series of studies on a wide range of infrastructure projects, including roads, railroads, ports, airports, water supply and energy pipelines.
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• Inequality of world incomes : what should be done? / by Robert Hunter Wade
• Are promises all we can offer? : globalization, poverty, inequality, and human rights / by Silvia Borzutzky
• The unremarkable record of liberalized trade / by Christian E. Weller, Robert E. Scott, and Adam S. Hersh
• Globalization : implications for Africa / by Peter J. Henriot
• The challenge of global capitalism : the world economy in the 21st century : issues in the debate / by Robert Gilpin
• Grinding the poor / by The economist
• The cause of antiglobalists is wrong in the aggregate / by Edward M. Graham
• Globalization and developing countries / by Aaron Lukas
• Foreign policy in focus : World Trade Organization / by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh
• IMF is a power unto itself / by Jeffrey Sachs
• WTO report card : an exercise or surrender of U.S. sovereignty? / by William H. Lash III and Daniel T. Griswold
• World Bank and IMF activities in Africa : poverty, alleviation, debt relief and HIV/AIDS / by Nancy Birdsall
• The Asian financial crisis of 1997-99 / by Stephan Haggard
• What I learned at the world economic crisis / by Joseph Stiglitz
• The Asian crisis : a view from the IMF / by Stanley Fischer
• The IMF's role in Asia : part of the problem or part of the solution? / by Thomas C. Dawson
• Globalization with a human face : UNDP human development report 1999
• Social impacts of the Asian crisis : policy challenges and lessons / by Jong-Wha Lee and Changyong Rhee.

Presents articles which address both sides of the debate about whether the global economy harms or helps the poor.

• Indonesian economic decolonization in regional and international perspective : an introduction / J. Thomas Lindblad and Peter Post
• Indonesianization : economic aspects of decolonization in Indonesia in the 1950s / Thee Kian Wie
• Economic decolonization and the rise of Indonesian military business / Bambang Purwanto
• Indonesianisasi and Japanization : the Japanese and the shifting fortunes of pribumi entrepreneurship / Peter Post
• The economy of decolonization in North Sumatra / J. Thomas Lindblad
• Decolonization in the Jember estate economy / Tri Chandra Apriyanto
• Indonesian colonial economic performance in an East Asian perspective / Anne Booth
• The economic consequences of decolonization : the "special" case of Indonesia / Daan Marks
• "Colonial" enterprise and the indigenization of management in independent Indonesia and Malaysia / Jasper van de Kerkhof.

This collection of essays provides insights into the complex process of economic decolonization in Indonesia from a variety of perspectives. The emancipation from Dutch colonialism in the economic sphere is linked to the unique features of the new nation-state emerging in newly independent Indonesia. This included a key role in business for the military. A key part was also played by indigenous Indonesian business firms that were shaped by the Japanese occupation and the Indonesian Revolution.

• New directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty / Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
• Inequality is bad for the poor / Martin Ravallion
• Measurement of income distribution in supranational entities : the case of the European Union / Andrea Brandolini
• Beyond conventional measures of income : including indirect benefits and taxes / Ann Harding, Neil Warren, and Rachel Lloyd
• Inequality within the household reconsidered / Peter Burton, Shelley Phipps, and Frances Woolley
• Inequality of learning in industrialized countries / John Micklewright and Sylke v. Schnepf
• On the multidimensionality of poverty and social exclusion / Brial Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan
• Summarizing multiple deprivation indicators / Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen P. Jenkins / Robust multidimensional poverty comparisons with discrete indicators of well-being / Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn, and Stephen D. Younger
• A guaranteed income for Europe's children? / Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, and Holly Sutherland / The impact of minimum wages on the distribution of earnings and employment in the USA / Stephen Bazen
• Training, minimum wages and the distribution of earnings / Alison L. Booth and Mark L. Bryan
• Government debt and the portfolios of the rich / Bernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizäcker.

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policymakers but the way in which we seek to analyse them continues to change. This is a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed, while also making a contribution to the ongoing public debate.

This volume examines institutional reform and economic development in Egypt.
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• Global inequality, poverty and justice / Raimo Varynen
• Development financing through ODA / Tony Addison, George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray
• Making sense of MDG costing / Jan Vandemoortele and Rathin Roy
• Foreign direct investment, innovative sources of development finance and domestic resource mobilisation / Tony Addison and George Mavrotas
• Remittances by emigrants / Andres Solimano
• Commodities crisis and the global trade in agriculture / Martin Khor
• Globalisation, debt and the "Hoover Effect" / Ann Pettifor
• Beyond HIPC / Nancy Birdsall and Brian Deese
• Debt work-out mechanisms / Kunibert Raffer
• Achieving healthy urban futures in the twenty-first century / David Tipping, Daniel Adom and Anna Tibaijuka
• Political agenda for global economic governance / Colin Bradford Jr. and Fantu Cheru.

This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015. If the MDGs to halve global poverty and significantly improve the conditions of life of the world's poor are to be met on schedule, putting in place the requisite funding is an essential component. The economists in this volume from WIDER, UNDP, and other leading institutions have contributed their analyses as part of th.

• PREFACE
• ENTRIES BY SUBJECT
• Thematic Perspectives
• Country Perspectives
• DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS
• OVERVIEW
• THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES
• African Development Prospects
• Agriculture
• Aid
• Conflict and Reconstruction
• Employment
• Environment
• Globalization
• Governance and Political Economy
• Human and Social Development
• Industry, Investment, and infrastructure
• Macroeconomics and Finance
• Natural Resources
• COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES.
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Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities? The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa is a definitive and comprehensive account of the key issues and topics affecting Africa's ability to grow and develop. It includes 53 thematic and 48 country perspectives by a veritable who's who of more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa. The contributors include: bright new African researchers based in Africa; renowned academics from the top Universities in Africa, Europe and North America; present and past Chief Economists of the African Development Bank; present and past Chief Economists for Africa of the World Bank; present and past Chief Economists of the World Bank; African Central Bank governors and finance ministers; and four Nobel Laureates in Economics.
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• Introduction and overview / Jean A.P. Clément
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo: lessons and challenges for a country emerging from war / Jean A.P. Clément
• The economics of postconflict countries: a survey of the literature / Ragnar Gudmundsson
• The economics of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa / Charles Amo Yartey
• Economic performance over the conflict cycle / Nicholas Staines
• Sources of growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: an econometric approach / Bernardin Akitoby and Matthias Cinyabuguma
• Political instability and growth in the Central African Republic, a neighbor of the Deomocratic Republic of the Congo / Dhaneshwar Ghura and Benoît Mercereau
• Empirical evidence of the sources of hyperinflation and falling currency / Bernardin Akitoby
• Challenges to financial intermediation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Bernard Laurens and Wim Fonteyne
• Rebuilding fiscal institutions / Nicolas Calcoen
• Structural and sectoral policies and their sequencing / Jacob Gons
• The long road to demilitarization: 1997-2003 / Markus Kostner, Ely Dieng, and Adriaan Verheul.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is making significant strides on both the political and economic fronts to extricate itself from one of the bloodiest wars in African history. This remarkable turnaround offers other countries and the international community valuable lessons in preventing conflict and in coping with postconflict recovery. This book also provides a summary of the most recent research on conflict, an analysis of the causes of conflicts in Africa, and an outline of their key economic characteristics.--Publisher's description.

• Introduction / Howard Chernick
• PART I. THE IMPACT OF 9/11 ON ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
• Did 9/11 change Manhattan and the New York region as places to conduct business? / Edward W. Hill, Iryna Lendel
• The impact of 9/11 on the Manhattan office market / Franz Fuerst
• Evidence from real estate markets of the long-term impact of 9/11 on the New York City economy / Andrew F. Haughwout
• The effects of 9/11 on New York's publicly traded companies: a brief look at financial market data / Sanders Korenman
• Insurance coverage for New York City in an age of terrorist risk / Jonathan A. Schwabish, Joshua Chang
• PART II. THE IMPACT OF 9/11 ON LABOR MARKETS AND FAMILIES
• The economic impact of 9/11 on New York City's low-wage workers and households / James A. Parrott, Oliver D. Cooke
• The impact of 9/11 on low-skilled, minority, and immigrant workers in New York City / Cordelia W. Reimers
• Child care arrangements in New York City after 9/11: a return to hearth and home? / Sanders Korenman
• PART III. THE FISCAL IMPACT OF 9/11
• The fiscal impact of 9/11 on New York City / Howard Chernick.

"Assessing multiple facets of the New York City economy in the years after 9/11, Resilient City discerns many hopeful signs among persistent troubles. Analysis by economist Sanders Korenman indicates that the value of New York-based companies did not fall relative to other firms, indicating that investors still believe that there are business advantages to operating in New York despite higher rates of terrorism insurance and concerns about future attacks. Cordelia W. Reimers separates the economic effects of 9/11 from the effects of the 2001 recession by comparing employment and wage trends for disadvantaged workers in New York with those in five major U.S. cities. She finds that New Yorkers fared at least as well as people in other cities, suggesting that the decline in earnings and employment for low-income New York workers in 2002 was due more to the recession than to the effects of 9/11. Still, troubles remain for New York City. Howard Chernick considers the substantial fiscal implications of the terrorist attacks on New York City, estimating that the attack cost the city about three billion dollars in the first two years alone; a sum that the city now must make up through large tax increases, spending cuts, and substantial additional borrowing, which will inevitably be a burden on future budgets." "The terrorist attacks of 9/11 dealt a severe blow to the economy of New York City, but it was far from a knock-out punch. Resilient City shows that New York's dynamic, flexible economy has absorbed the pain and hardships of the attacks, and provides a thorough, authoritative assessment of what, so far, has been a strong recovery for New York."--Jacket.