Poverty and discrimination

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In "Poverty and Discrimination", economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty ...

La vida en la frontera

El principal reto para España es la creciente desigualdad en su frontera sur. España viene sufriendo oleadas periódicas de emigración, como otros países cuyos vecinos son mucho más pobres. A lo largo de este libro se analizan las 20 fronteras más desiguales del mundo por ...

The economics of international integration

The splintering of the multilateral trading system into a number of trading blocs and arrangements has been one of the most important issues in international economics, particularly after the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 and especially after the launch of the Doha ...

All politics is global

explaining international regulatory regimes

Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is ...

Economic development

a regional, institutional, and historical approach

This innovative textbook provides an introduction to economic development in both an historical and contemporary, comparative, and systems framework. The text takes a regional approach, with the theory developed within regional contexts. This leads to the second innovative aspect, an emphasis on institutional structures unique ...

International trade and economic growth

Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well known theory on international trade, and then take ...

Making AID work

This title offers an encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a ...

Los objetivos del milenio

no valen escusas

¿Puede soportar el mundo-la paz, la convivencia, nuestros principios morales y éticos-que la mitad de la población viva en la indignidad de la pobreza?¿Pueden soportar nuestras conciencias 10 millones de muertes infantiles cada año, 1000 millones de personas pasando hambre, 40 millones de infectados ...

Perspectivas de las migraciones internacionales 2006

La presente obra analiza las tendencias recientes de los movimientos migratorios y de la política de migración en todos los países de la OCDE y contiene, por primera vez, estadísticas armonizadas sobre los flujos internacionales de inmigración de larga duración de la mayoría de los ...

International trade and economic growth

Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well-known theory on international trade, and then take the ...

The international monetary fund

politics of conditional lending

This is an ideal book for students who need a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in ...

Understanding emerging markets

China and India

Emerging markets (Ems) are the focus of increasing interest in the field of international business, as they provide significant challenges and great opportunities. Focusing on the dynamics of emerging markets, this informative book provides an academically rigorous yet business- oriented analysis of the key issues ...

How China grows

investment, finance and reform

Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty- five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is ...

Breve tratado de microfinanzas

El presente libro pretende cubrir una laguna bibliográfica en nuestro país relativa a las microfinanzas, y, en general, a las finanzas éticas o finanzas solidarias. De hecho, este Breve Tratado de Microfinanzas abre la colección que la editorial La Hidra de Lerna dedica a las ...

The bottom billion

why the poorest countries are pailing and what can be done about it

Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily forward ...

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

This is a much-needed new examination of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), fully covering its history and current activities. Ian Taylor and Karen Smith present a clear overview to an organization that is at times overlooked and seen to belong to ...

El Estado de África

pobreza y política en África y la agenda para la actuación internacional

Partiendo de un análisis político, histórico y comparativo el autor expone también vías de solución para un continente que se ha convertido en la región más dependiente de ayuda de la historia de la humanidad.

Global outlaws

crime, money, and power in the contemporary world

Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the ...

The global food economy

the battle for the future of farming

The modern food economy is a paradox. Surplus 'food mountains' sit alongside global malnutrition and the developed world subsidizes its own agriculture while pressurizing the developing world to liberalize at all costs. Export competition is increasingly aggressive whilst the reliance on imports in many countries ...

Trading voices

the European Union in international commercial negotiations

The European Union, the world's foremost trader, is not an easy bargainer to deal with. Its twenty-five member states have relinquished most of their sovereignty in trade to the supranational level, and in international commercial negotiations, such as those conducted under the World Trade ...