Author: Nixon, Bruce Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transforma...
Author: Rousseau, Jean Jacques Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A revolutionary and controversial work, this book is a classic of political theory and a key source of democratic ideals. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a way for individuals' self-inter...
Author: Shtino, John Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Public Policy Revolution: A New Direction for America asserts that America's economic life is ruled by a supply-side drip-down system that overwhelmingly favors capital over labor and leads to a massi...
Description: Almost every African country today bears the stamp of China's emerging presence, from oil fields in the east and west, to farms in the south, to mines in the centre of the continent. China has cultura...
Author: Kammerer, Doug Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Average Doug is a compilation of an ordinary American citizen's views about the state of America today and how politics, government, and our society play a key role in determining the future of our gr...
Author: Wolf, Jr., Charles / Chow, Brian G. / Jones, Gregory S. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The authors evaluate the risks and benefits of increased Chinese foreign investment, aiming to improve understanding of its investment patterns and strategy. They consider how U.S. national security m...
Author: Wolf, Jr., Charles / Chow, Brian G. / Jones, Gregory S. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The authors evaluate the risks and benefits of increased Chinese foreign investment, aiming to improve understanding of its investment patterns and strategy. They consider how U.S. national security m...
Author: Nooruddin, Irfan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coalition Politics and Economic Development challenges the conventional wisdom that coalition government hinders necessary policy reform in developing countries. Irfan Nooruddin presents a fresh theor...
Author: Schneider,Christina J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Each wave of expansion of the European Union has led to political tensions and conflict. Existing members fear their membership privileges will diminish and candidates are loath to concede the expecte...
Author: Landrum, Gene Publisher: Morgan James Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sacrifice Tomorrow for Today and You'll have Destroyed Tomorrow! While America was landing on the moon, Japan was landing in our living room. One nation focused on the conquest of space; the other on ...
Author: Gersemann, Olaf Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Europeans and many American pundits believe that while the U.S. economy may create more growth, Europeans have it better when it comes to job security and other factors. Olaf Gersemann, a German repo...
Author: Smith, Craig R. Publisher: Idea Factory Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Crashing the Dollar crackles with the page-turning excitement of a spy novel or murder mystery as it tracks down those killing the U.S. Dollar, and strips bare the secret agenda and tactics of those b...
Author: Li, Quan / Reuveny, Rafael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny combine the social scientific approach with a broad, interdisciplinary scope to address some of the most intriguing and important political, economic, and envi...
Description: The Doha Development Agenda held the promise of substantial gains for developing countries. However, the realization of these gains is far from obvious: the interests of various groups of countries di...
Description: Challenging the misdirected policies of the last 30 years regarding the South's responsibility to develop itself rather than expect the North to carry the burden, this book offers alternative concepts...
Author: Baker, Dean Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite reports that the recession may be ending, the unemployment rate is sky high and home foreclosures are at record levels. It's no secret that the U.S. economy is in shambles because of the recen...
Author: Baker, Dean Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Despite reports that the recession may be ending, the unemployment rate is sky high and home foreclosures are at record levels. It's no secret that the U.S. economy is in shambles because of the recen...
Author: Bayulgen, Oksan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on three in-depth case studies of oil-rich countries and statistical analyses of 132 countries over three decades, Bayulgen demonstrates that the link between democratization and FDI is nonlin...
Description: Governments in Canada today are facing a fiscal crisis. In recent years both Ottawa and many of the provinces have undertaken cost-cutting measures, such as reducing program spending and streamlining ...
Author: N/A Publisher: AEI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Traditional measures of economic disparities among Americans of different race, gender, geographic location, and education level consider only material well-being, so that making two groups economical...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the resu...
Author: Berry, Christopher R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Imperfect Union offers the first political theory of special purpose jurisdictions, which constitute the most common form of local government in the United States today. Collectively, special purpose ...
Author: Learsy, Raymond J. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These political essays, which originally appeared in the Huffington Post, chronicle the financial and environment malfeasance of the oil industry during the last five years. Oil is a commodity that i...
Author: Polak, Paul Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top 3 things we are doing wrong in ou...
Author: Baker, Dean Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For the second time this decade, the U.S. economy is sinking into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. The most recent calamity will lead to a downturn deeper and longer than the sto...
Author: N/A Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "While the terms "power" and "rights" are increasingly incorporated into the language of development agencies they have yet to fully permeate the practice of poverty reduction. Acknowledging that this...
Author: Hartmann, Thom Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy, but rather, the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunate...
Description: This volume brings together, for the first time, distinguished Gulf experts to analyze the renewed geo-economic prominence of the oil-exporting states if the Gulf. It investigates some of these 'new p...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Haiti is a resilient society whose rural communities in particular have developed coping mechanisms in response to a long history of underdevelopment and political instability. The country's religious...
Description: Taking the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as an iconic turning-point and exploring key themes such as economic reform and sustainability, innovation and sustainability, globalisation and social develop...
Author: Hurst,William Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While millions in China have been advantaged by three decades of reform, impressive gains have also produced social dislocation. Groups that had been winners under socialism find themselves losers in ...
Author: Shapiro, Gary Publisher: Beaufort Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America seems to be on a downward slide. Our government spends too much; our economy creates too little; and we aren't preparing our children to compete in a global marketplace. Yet our politicians - ...
Author: Konings, Martijn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the 1960s, scholars and other commentators have frequently announced the imminent decline of American financial power: excessive speculation and debt are believed to have undermined the long-ter...
Author: McDonald,Patrick J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Invisible Hand of Peace shows that the domestic institutions associated with capitalism, namely private property and competitive market structures, have promoted peace between states over the past...
Author: Segura-Ubiergo,Alex Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the first attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection and how these systems have been affected by the recen...
Author: Konings, Piet Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa. Faced with a deep economic and political crisis, African governments have been compelled by powerful external agencies, in particula...
Author: Doner, Richard F. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why do some middle-income countries diversify their economies but fail to upgrade – to produce world-class products based on local inputs and technological capacities? Why have the 'little tiger...
Author: Connolly, James Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When England deprived Ireland of all rights to the soil and to universal livelihood, the Irish people lost control of their economic independence. This work by James Connolly who founded the Irish Soc...
Author: N/A Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Occupy Wall Street protests have spread around the world, with a common slogan of "We are the 99%." But there is a great deal of confusion and misperception about this movement. This book clarifies t...
Description: Occupy Wall Street protests have spread around the world, with a common slogan of "We are the 99%." But there is a great deal of confusion and misperception about this movement. This book clarifies t...
Author: Heffner M. D., Dennis Knight Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most people have a bias toward seeing the world as they would like it to be. It might be best for some purposes, however, to know the world as it actually is. Unlimited Progress: The Grand Delusion of...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can nonprofit organizations and NGOs demonstrate to stakeholders that they are using funds appropriately and delivering on their promises? Many nonprofit stakeholders, including funders and regula...
Author: Ronay, Maria Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Do you know enough about the world's most pressing issues? Are you familiar with the consequences of climate change and methods for sharing the permissible carbon quotas? Are you aware that we are usi...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This report focuses on the dimensions of poverty, and how to create a better world, free of poverty. The analysis explores the nature, and evolution of poverty, and its causes, to present a framework ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Pambazuka Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Much existing commentary on China in Africa focuses on the vested interests of the West while the voices of independent African analysts and activists have been lost. In a unique collection of essays,...
Author: Rathke, Wade Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Charismatic activist and chief organizer for ACORN (the nation's largest grassroots community organization, with more than 400,000 low- and moderate-income family members), Wade Rathke reveals how bui...
Description: Charismatic activist and chief organizer for ACORN (the nation's largest grassroots community organization, with more than 400,000 low- and moderate-income family members), Wade Rathke reveals how bui...
