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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Paul Collier Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press, USA
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The...
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Jeffrey Sachs Penguin (Non-Classics) Penguin (Non-Classics)
Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the...
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
Clayton M. Christensen Collins Business Collins Business
What do the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in common? They are all examples of disruptive technologies that helped to redefine the competitive landscape of their respective markets. These products did not...
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben Holt Paperbacks Holt Paperbacks
“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.” —Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep...
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Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen Anchor Anchor
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics,  an essential and  paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient...
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Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs PublicAffairs
It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make and sell stools....
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing Paperbacks)
CK Prahalad Wharton School Publishing Wharton School Publishing
The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It's where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how...
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Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
Yasheng Huang Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press
This book presents a story of two Chinas - an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand, and the result was rapid as well as broad-based growth. In the 1990s, urban China...
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The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
William Easterly The MIT Press The MIT Press
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid,...
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Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series)
Gene Smiley Ivan R. Dee, Publisher Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Drawing upon recent economic scholarship to present a clear and nontechnical analysis, Mr. Smiley offers new insights and some surprising conclusions about the causes of the Great Depression, the consequences of the New Deal, and the economic...
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