epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Abhijit Banerjee

For these reasons, micro insurance may not become the next billion-client market opportunity: There seem to be deep reasons that most people don’t yet feel very comfortable with the kinds ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jagdish Bhagwati

Air Transport Regarding air transport, progress has been notable in the construction of modern airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and even some smaller towns, such as Jaipur. ...

epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Collier, Paul

Aid and the Natural Resource Trap The second trap was the natural resource trap. Here, frankly, aid is fairly impotent. Evidently, the resource-rich countries have money coming into the government. ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Lorenzo Fioramonti

CHAPTER 4 Change from below I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. … This is ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

FIGURE 39. World Energy Use and GDP. Sources: US Energy Information Administration, International Monetary Fund. Another often-ignored factor skewing the energy-GDP relationship is outsourcing of production. In the 1950s, the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Martenson, Chris [Martenson, Chris]

Figure 16.8 indicates that even a historically modest 4 percent rate of global growth would require an advance from the 84.4 mbd (million barrels per day) in 2009 to 89.1 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Peter Marber

Immigration and Security The 9/11 attacks and subsequent 2005 London subway bombings have made immigrants appear as the number one terrorist enemy of the Western world. There has been legislation ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hiscock, Geoff [Hiscock, Geoff]

In the early 1980s, Jack Welch, then head of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric, decided he no longer wanted to be in commodities. He set about divesting GE’s commodity assets, ...

mobi |eng | 2004-09-08 | Author:Cavanagh, John & Mander, Jerry [Cavanagh, John]

196 CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING SCALE Changes in energy, transportation, and agriculture systems will make them more compatible with local economies and eliminate the wasteful resource uses that go with long-distance ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Tim Clissold

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epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Brynjolfsson, Erik & McAfee, Andrew [Brynjolfsson, Erik]

FIGURE 11.1 Labor Productivity and Private Employment In this chapter, we’ll address three important questions about the future of the bounty and the spread. First, will the bounty overwhelm the ...

azw3 |eng | 2003-04-16 | Author:Stiglitz, Joseph E. [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

EXPLAINING THE MISTAKES While the IMF now agrees it made serious mistakes in its fiscal policy advice, in how it pushed bank restructuring in Indonesia, in perhaps pushing capital market ...