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Willingness To Pay For Improved Water Service In Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, James F. Casey
Willingness To Pay For Improved Water Service In Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, James F. Casey
James F Casey
The 1.5 million residents of the city of Manaus form the epicenter for economic activity and development in the Amazon Basin. The current water treatment facilities were built when there were a mere 100,000 people living here. The fifteen-fold increase in population has made access to water a major public health concern. Families that can afford to buy bottled water do and those that can not are susceptible to water-borne disease and illness at an ever-increasing rate. In order to determine how much citizens are willing to pay for universal access to water service in the home, the University of …
Helping Infant Economies Grow: Foundations Of Trade Policies For Developing Countries, Joseph Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald
Helping Infant Economies Grow: Foundations Of Trade Policies For Developing Countries, Joseph Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald
Joseph Stiglitz
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Aid For Trade, Joseph Stiglitz, Andrew Charlton
Addressing Corruption In Development, Matthew Wilburn King
Addressing Corruption In Development, Matthew Wilburn King
Matthew Wilburn King PhD
Acknowledgement of the detrimental effects of corruption on the development of nations has led to an increasing demand amongst the international public for more transparent and democratic governance structures to combat and prevent corruption in both public and private sectors. Governments and stakeholders in the international community recognize that corruption is a fundamental governance issue that can impede economic growth and human development. Subsequently, corruption has come to the fore in international policy circles. A number of global institutions, such as the World Bank, regional institutions, corporations, and governments have embraced anti-corruption efforts in an attempt to mitigate and prevent …
Communities In The Global Economy: Where Social And Indigenous Entrepreneurship Meet, Robert B. Anderson, Benson Honig, Ana Maria Peredo
Communities In The Global Economy: Where Social And Indigenous Entrepreneurship Meet, Robert B. Anderson, Benson Honig, Ana Maria Peredo
Robert B Anderson
With the advent of industrialization, indigenous people around the world have suffered greatly as a result of shifting economic forces, advancing technologies, encroaching population centres, social acculturation, and colonial expansion (Cardoso, 2001). Once self-reliant and socially cohesive, indigenous communities have suffered, to varying degrees, both geographical and population dislocations (World Bank, 2001). What receives less attention, but is also important, is the degree of cohesion that remains and the desire among many indigenous people to rebuild their communities on a traditional and culturally grounded foundation while simultaneously improving their social and economic circumstances (Harvey, 1996; Lurie, 1986; Vinje, 1996). Many …
Indigenous Land Rights, Entrepreneurship, And Economic Development, Robert B. Anderson, Leo-Paul Dana, Teresa Dana
Indigenous Land Rights, Entrepreneurship, And Economic Development, Robert B. Anderson, Leo-Paul Dana, Teresa Dana
Robert B Anderson
Indigenous people are struggling to reassert their nationhood within the post-colonial states in which they find themselves. Claims to their traditional lands and the right to use the resources of these lands are central to their drive to nationhood. Traditional lands are the ‘place’ of the nation and are inseparable from the people, their culture, and their identity as a nation. Traditional lands and resources are the foundation upon which indigenous people intend to rebuild the economies of their nations and so improve the socioeconomic circumstance of their people—individuals, families, communities, and nations. This paper explores business development activities that …
Growth, Initial Conditions, Law Andspeed Of Privatization In Transition Countries: 11 Years Later, Joseph Stiglitz, Sergio Godoy
Growth, Initial Conditions, Law Andspeed Of Privatization In Transition Countries: 11 Years Later, Joseph Stiglitz, Sergio Godoy
Joseph Stiglitz
This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism to the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more important in explaining the growth of the transition countries in the years since the end of the Cold War. In the mid 90s a large empirical literature attempted to relate growth to policy measures. A standard conclusion of this literature was the faster countries privatized and liberalized, the better. We now have more data, so we can check whether these conclusions are still valid six years …