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2) Free trade and prosperity: how openness helps developing countries grow richer and combat poverty
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
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, or perhaps ignorance of the right policies? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. In this book the authors show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Based on fifteen years of original research, they marshall...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
In "Dead Aid," Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa that has channeled billions of dollars in aid but failed to reduce poverty and increase growth. He offers a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Advances in global development have helped lift hundreds of millions of people from poverty in recent decades, but major challenges in fighting poverty remain. Billions of people continue to have little or no access to the basic necessities of life: clean water, food, shelter, education, and medical care. The random location of their birthplace limited much of what is possible in many of their lives. Yet legions of dedicated people today are proving...
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