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Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force...
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La década de 1980 marca un punto de inflexión en el desarrollo de América Latina. Durante esa década se produjo la coincidencia de cuatro fenómenos que desde entonces han marcado el desarrollo de América Latina: el colapso del "régimen proteccionista" que venía siendo empleado por los países latinoamericanos desde la década de 1950; la crisis de la deuda externa; la generalizada aceptación de la política neoliberal, y el surgimiento de...
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He's a fourteen-year-old boy, taken to fight in war. She's his twin sister, desperate to save him.
Patish and Leeta enjoy an idyllic life in their ancient Indian village - until a battle over diminishing water supply threatens their world. While Patish trains as the warrior he'd never planned to be, duty falls on Leeta to make a perilous journey for the wisdom of the mysterious Purple Sage.
When the final command is given and the armies are...
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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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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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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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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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2021 So many issues developed during COVID-19. Systematic Racial Injustice left another blemish on are judicial system.
This short easy to follow manual was published to make "Process Servers". For the times of 2022 short sweet and direct. The amount of the whole process will truly amaze you. And also because I myself am a Californian this manual offers assistance while completing the tasks if needed. Building brand and a good name is relevant to...
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Las contribuciones de este volumen se corresponden con la diversidad y riqueza del trabajo de Javier Iguíñiz: desde las preguntas de la economía clásica hasta el enfoque de las capacidades, pasando por la evaluación del debate entre economistas sobre qué es el desarrollo y qué rol juegan las instituciones en él; del desarrollo humano al pensamiento social católico, en ida y vuelta; y de la reflexión académica a la discusión (¡y defensa!)...
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El libro presenta un conjunto de ensayos escritos por diversos autores especialistas en el sector empresarial, donde comparten su preparación y experiencia en este ámbito. Propone una visión original, eficaz y competitiva de las empresas modernas, además de que incita al lector a emprender y crear nuevos proyectos que solucionen las problemáticas actuales.
El coordinador de la obra, Jose Antonio Dávila, es director del Centro de Investigación...
11) La solución ágil
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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...
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The biggest and most controversial offset programme in Hungary was the one connected with the acquisition of the Swedish Gripen jetfighters. The primary topic of the research is the influence of the Hungarian Gripen offset agreement on the domestic economy and its potential in terms of economic development, technology transfer and other benefits during the programme period. Moreover the research evaluates the implementation of the offset programme...
13) 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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Les modles de dveloppement les plus souvent appliqus dans nos pays ont des faiblesses, car il sagit le plus souvent des conceptions dhommes de science et de dirigeants politiques qui ne tiennent pas compte de certaines ralits vivantes surtout dans les pays en dveloppement. Cest la raison pour laquelle il faut en proposer dautres. Lorsque nous nous livrons quelques rflexions sur notre tude, nous ralisons combien il est difficile de russir une recherche...
15) Degrowth
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The term “degrowth” has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. Degrowth argues that economic growth is no longer desirable—its costs exceed its benefits—and advocates a transformation of economies so that they produce and consume less, differently and better.
Giorgos Kallis provides a clear and succinct guide to the central ideas of degrowth theory and...
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International business and economic literature counts Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as one of the most essential components of the globalization process. This research book consists of two parts and presents evidence of the impact of foreign direct investment on the U.S. economy and the economy of Central and Eastern Europe. Foreign direct investment plays an extraordinary and growing role in the global markets and represents an integral part of...
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Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product. Yet despite the optimistic predictions of political observers and global business leaders, the triumph of capitalism has not led to substantial democratic reforms.
In Capitalism without Democracy,...
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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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Innovation requires supportive innovation ecosystems. This book is about building innovation ecosystems and improving existing ones. These have the character of complex adaptive systems. Innovation ecosystems do not just happen; they need to be engineered. Cases and examples in the book of how to engineer innovation ecosystems illustrate widely applicable fundamentals. No previous knowledge of complexity is assumed.
Innovation ecosystems are systems...
20) Reto bicentenario: Una mirada a las fracturas que limitan el desarrollo del Perú tras la pandemia
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A dos siglos de los primeros pasos de la independencia peruana, el libro Reto bicentenario. Una mirada a las fracturas que limitan el desarrollo del Perú tras la pandemia, del periodista David Reyes Zamora, traza una hoja de ruta conjunta para construir un mejor país en medio de la lucha contra el COVID-19 y afrontar las futuras dificultades una vez que logremos derrotarlo.
Para ello, el autor entrevistó a 11 especialistas que analizan los problemas...
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