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China Dawnby David Sheff
HarperCollins US 2009; US$ 10.99Imagine living through the breakthrough moments of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the other icons of today's new economy. The kind of technological revolution that they led in Silicon Valley is now sweeping through China, but with much more dramatic implications. The dynamic entrepreneurs who are using technology to radically transform business and cultural life in China are fighting not only outdated business models and a tumultuous economy but also an unpredictable government that has a love-hate relationship with the Net, at once pushing its expansion at a feverish pace and censoring it. As Duncan Clark, cofounder of BDA, an Internet consulting company in Beijing, told author David Sheff, "This environment -- the regulations, the competition,... more...
The Economics of Input-Output Analysisby Thijs ten Raa
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 36.00Surveying the most recent developments in input-output analysis and their applications, this textbook shows students with a background in micro- and macroeconomics how to apply their knowledge to concrete economies. Exercises and review questions are included at the end of each chapter, and solutions at the end of the book. more...
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume 2, The Long Twentieth Centuryby Victor Bulmer-Thomas; John Coatsworth; Roberto Cortes-Conde
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 174.00Provides an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America's economic development. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines and methodologies to provide a synthesis of the past two decades of exciting new research on the region's economic past. more...
The Elgar Companion to Development Studiesby D.A. Clark
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 60.00Covers development economics and development studies. This book discusses theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers. more...
Research Skills for Policy and Developmentby Alan Thomas; Giles Mohan
Sage Publications Ltd. 2007; US$ 60.00Unlike a simple `how to' guide, Research Skills for Policy and Development provides a critique of various methods and situates these approaches within `real life' organisational settings, enabling those working in or studying development to locate, evaluate and use relevant information quickly but rigorously. The successor to Finding Out Fast (SAGE, 1998) it reflects the changes in development management theories and practice over the last seven years, and includes new material and advice on critical use of the web as a resource and research tool. more...
Data Collection and Analysisby Roger Sapsford; Victor Jupp
Sage Publications Ltd. 2006; US$ 59.00Building on the strengths of the bestselling first edition, this expanded version includes: three chapters focusing on: research and information on the Net; discourse research; ethnographic and discursive qualitative analysis; up-to-date examples of research in action and material on questionnaire design, composite measurement and techniques of quantitative and qualitative interviewing. more...
Imagining Indiaby Nandan Nilekani
Penguin Group Inc. 2010; US$ 13.99A visionary look at the evolution and future of India In this momentous book, Nandan Nilekani traces the central ideas that shaped India's past and present and asks the key question of the future: How will India as a global power avoid the mistakes of earlier development models? As a co-founder of Infosys, a global leader in information technology, Nilekani has actively participated in the company's rise during the past twenty-seven years. In Imagining India , he uses his global experience and understanding to discuss the future of India and its role as a global citizen and emerging economic giant. Nilekani engages with India's particular obstacles and opportunities, charting a new way forward for the young nation. more...
Social Networks and Organizationsby Martin Kilduff; Wenpin Tsai
Sage Publications Ltd. 2003; US$ 62.00`The authors should be congratulated for not only offering an excellent tour de force of cutting-edge work in social network analysis, but also charting some new possible territories for future organizational research' -. Environment and Planning. Social Networks and Organizations provides a compact introduction to major concepts in the area of organizational social networks. The book covers the rudiments of methods, explores major debates, and directs attention to theoretical directions, including a vigorous critique of some taken-for-granted assumptions. The book is aimed at all of those who seek a lucid and lively treatment of social network approaches to organizational research, with a particular emphasis on the neglected area of interpersonal... more...
Freedom From Wantby Ian Smillie
Stylus Publishing 2009; US$ 24.95BRAC, arguably the world?s largest, most diverse and most successful NGO, is little known outside Bangladesh, where it formed in 1972. Author Ian Smillie predicts, however, that this is bound to change. BRAC?s success and the spread of its work in health, education, social enterprise development and microfinance dwarfs any other private, government or non-profit enterprise in its impact on tens of thousands of communities in Asia and Africa. Freedom From Want traces BRAC?s evolution from more...
The Bottom Billionby Paul Collier
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 15.95Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines a much needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nation between reformers and corrupt leaders--and... more...