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Growth and empowerment : making development happen / Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and F. Halsey Rogers.
Lippincott Library HD75 .S7625 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)
- Series:
- Munich lectures in economics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- The former Chief Economist at the World Bank proposes a strategy for development based on two interrelated approaches: building an investment climate that encourages growth and empowering poor people to participate in that growth.
- Contents:
- Living standards and poverty
- Development as a process of change
- Lessons of development policy
- Lessons from development theory
- A strategy for development
- Data and measurement as drivers of change
- The dynamics of the investment climate
- The dynamics of empowerment
- The dynamics of preferences
- The dynamics of political reform
- The challenge
- Domestic action : public finances and the role of the state
- International action : trade and aid.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-440) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0262195178
- 9780262195171
- OCLC:
- 56108874
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