Centre for Global Development (29 results)

Condition: New. What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? This title explores one option that may help avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly…

Condition: New. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. This book describes, with brutal honesty, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Editor(s): Moss, Todd. Num P…

Condition: New. The World Bank is assailed by critics on the left, right and center on the grounds it is not effective, not accountable, not democratic or legitimate, and most threatening of all, not relevant in a global economy where private capital, production, and ideas dominate. Editor(s): Birdsall, Nancy. Num Pages: 201 pag…

Condition: New. Emerging Africa describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since the mid-1990s. In 17 countries, five fundamental and sustained breakthroughs are making old assumptions increasingly untenable. Num Pages: 169 pages, col. Illustrations, col. map. BIC Classification:…

Condition: New. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. This book describes, with brutal honesty, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Editor(s): Moss, Todd. Num P…

Condition: New. What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? This title explores one option that may help avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly…

Condition: New. The World Bank is assailed by critics on the left, right and center on the grounds it is not effective, not accountable, not democratic or legitimate, and most threatening of all, not relevant in a global economy where private capital, production, and ideas dominate. Editor(s): Birdsall, Nancy. Num Pages: 201 pag…

Condition: New. Emerging Africa describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since the mid-1990s. In 17 countries, five fundamental and sustained breakthroughs are making old assumptions increasingly untenable. Num Pages: 169 pages, col. Illustrations, col. map. BIC Classification:…

Condition: New. Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings ag…

Condition: New. Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings ag…

Condition: New. Written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide governments, foundations, investors, and private citizens who support financial services for poor people. In particular, it explains the need to deemphasize microcredit in favour of other financial services for the po…

Condition: New. Written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide governments, foundations, investors, and private citizens who support financial services for poor people. In particular, it explains the need to deemphasize microcredit in favour of other financial services for the po…