The Quest for Prosperity

The Quest for Prosperity
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9780691163567
ISBN-13 : 0691163561
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Quest for Prosperity by : Justin Yifu Lin

Justin Yifu Lin's groundbreaking account of how developing countries can help themselves—now fully updated How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin—the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank—focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves. Lin examines how the countries that have succeeded in developing their own economies have actually done it. Interwoven with insights, observations, and stories from Lin’s travels as chief economist of the World Bank and his reflections on China’s rise, this book provides a road map and hope for those countries engaged in their own quest for prosperity.

Under-Rewarded Efforts

Under-Rewarded Efforts
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Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781597823050
ISBN-13 : 1597823058
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Under-Rewarded Efforts by : Santiago Levy Algazi

Why has an economy that has done so many things right failed to grow fast? Under-Rewarded Efforts traces Mexico’s disappointing growth to flawed microeconomic policies that have suppressed productivity growth and nullified the expected benefits of the country’s reform efforts. Fast growth will not occur doing more of the same or focusing on issues that may be key bottlenecks to productivity growth elsewhere, but not in Mexico. It will only result from inclusive institutions that effectively protect workers against risks, redistribute towards those in need, and simultaneously align entrepreneurs’ and workers’ incentives to raise productivity.

Quest for Prosperity

Quest for Prosperity
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822004983185
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Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Quest for Prosperity by : Kōnosuke Matsushita

Devides into three parts: the first covering Matsushita's childhood and the founding and early development of the Matsushita Electric Appliance. Factory (1894-1925). The secondary the period of rapid business expansion (1927-1933), and the third World War II and the postwar recovery up through the present.

Kenya

Kenya
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105081560489
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Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Kenya by : Norman N. Miller

Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?

Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?
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Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9780880993517
ISBN-13 : 0880993510
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? by : William Lazonick

Lazonick explores the origins of the new era of employment insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments, businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether the United States can refashion its high-tech business model to generate stable and equitable economic growth. --from publisher description.

Amity and Prosperity

Amity and Prosperity
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780374713713
ISBN-13 : 0374713715
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Amity and Prosperity by : Eliza Griswold

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors’ mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her small farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children’s illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what’s really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that’s being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for their fate, and for redressing it: The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice.

Why Nations Fail

Why Nations Fail
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Publisher : Currency
Total Pages : 546
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ISBN-10 : 9780307719225
ISBN-13 : 0307719227
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Nations Fail by : Daron Acemoglu

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.

Beating the Odds

Beating the Odds
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9780691192338
ISBN-13 : 0691192332
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Beating the Odds by : Justin Yifu Lin

This powerful book shows how poor countries can ignite growth without waitingfor global action or the creation of ideal local conditions.

The Prosperity Code

The Prosperity Code
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Publisher : BalboaPress
Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : 9781452552682
ISBN-13 : 1452552681
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Prosperity Code by : Alan Batten

Not more than once every decade does a book like The Prosperity Code come along. The Prosperity Code will help you solve the mysteries of permanent prosperity and provide techniques and exercises to put you in the path of Abundance. Master prosperity teacher Alan Batten has written an easy-to-read, entertaining and effective book that will set you on the road to wealth, health and happiness. Among the secrets to the Prosperity Code, you will: Discover how to define prosperity for yourself and your loved ones. Learn the Seven Steps to Using the Law of Abundance. Align your desires with your Life Purpose to give them an extra boost. Understand your core values and how they impact your prosperity. Realize why the biggest part of receiving is giving. Find out why a regular spiritual practice can supercharge your quest for Abundance. Hear what great teachers from the Bible to Oprah to Louise Hay have to say about prosperity. All these tips and many more are in this book ready for you to read and act upon. Go ahead! You have nothing to lose but your lack and limitation consciousness.

Free Trade and Prosperity

Free Trade and Prosperity
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780190914509
ISBN-13 : 0190914505
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Free Trade and Prosperity by : Arvind Panagariya

Arguments for protection and against free trade have seen a revival in developed countries such as the United States and Great Britain as well as developing countries such as India. Given the clear benefits trade openness has brought everywhere, this is a surprising development. The benefits of free trade are especially great for emerging market economies. Free Trade and Prosperity offers the first full-scale defense of pro-free-trade policies with developing countries at its center. Arvind Panagariya, a professor at Columbia University and former top economic advisor to the government of India, supplies a historically informed analysis of many longstanding but flawed arguments for protection. He starts with an insightful overview of the positive case for free trade, and then closely examines the various contentions of protectionists. One protectionist argument is that "infant" industries need time to grow and become competitive, and thus should be sheltered. Other arguments are that emerging markets are especially prone to coordination failures, they are in need of diversification of their production structures, and they suffer from market imperfections. The panoply of protectionist arguments, including those for import substitution industrialization, fails when subject to close logical and empirical scrutiny. Free trade and outward-oriented policies are preconditions to both sustained rapid growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Panagariya provides compelling evidence demonstrating the failures of protectionism and the promise of free trade using detailed case studies of successful countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China and India. Low or declining barriers to free trade and high or rising shares of trade in total income have been key elements in the sustained rapid growth and poverty alleviation in these countries and many others. Free trade is like oxygen: the benefits are ubiquitous and not noticed until they are no longer there. This important book is an essential reminder of the costs of protectionism.