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Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 (ADI) provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It puts together data from different sources, making it an essential tool for policy makers, researchers, and other people interested in Africa. This year's ADI addresses the issue of youth employment. The report shows that success in addressing youth employment in will not be achieved and sustained through fragmented and isolated interventions. Instead it finds that an arching guideline for addressing the youth employment challenge is the need for an integrated strategy

The 2008 financial crisis has raised a number of questions about the best strategy for achieving sustained growth and poverty reduction in developing countries, foremost among them whether the failure of the financial system also signifies the broader failure of market-oriented capitalist systems. The Growth Commission looks at this issue in its new report - Post-Crisis Growth in Developing Countries. It believes that the crisis was not a failure of market-oriented systems and that an outward-looking strategy, as suggested in the original Growth Report (published in May 2008), remains broadly

The East Asia and Pacific Update is the World Bank's comprehensive semiannual review of developing economies in the region. This November 2009 issue discusses East Asia's role as the driving force behind the global economic rebound. The region's economy has rebounded from the financial crisis and global recesesion that began in late 2008, but has it reached recovery stage? Why has the East Asia and Pacific region fared better than other developing regions? Can the region continue to grow as fast as it did before the crisis if demand from the developed world remains weak? Take China out of the

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understandin

Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations -- Table of Contents -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. Major theoretical concepts -- 3. Research methodology: Scope and boundaries -- Part 2 Globalization, values-driven management, and business ethics -- 1. Values, markets and global capitalism -- 1.1. Universalization of capitalist market economy -- 1.2. Cultural and social consequences of economic globalization -- 1.3. Principles of a global market economy -- 1.4. Values of the market system: Corporations as key actors -- 1.5. Business ethics and values-driven management in global community -- 2. Values, organizations,and management -- 2.1. The concept of value -- 2.2. The Place of values in corporations -- 2.3. Values-driven management and organizational systems -- 2.4. The ideology of management: The case against values-driven management -- 2.5. Values, moral development, and organizational learning -- 2.6. Strategies for values-driven management -- 2.7. Ethical values-driven management: From rules to values -- 3. From values-driven management to business ethics -- 3.1. Liberal property rights theory of business ethics -- 3.2. Extension of values: Stakeholder theory -- 3.3. Communitarian values-driven management -- 3.4. Kantian and universalistic perspectives on business ethics -- 3.5. Values and social contract theory -- 3.6. A republican concept of business ethics -- Part 3 Business ethics and corporate social responsibility in different fields of business -- 1. Corporate social responsibility and principles of stakeholder justice -- 1.1. Corporate social responsibility between ethics, law, and economics -- 1.2. Business ethics and the many faces of corporate social responsibility -- 1.3. Corporate social responsibility in sustainability management -- 1.4. CSR, Corporate governance, and stakeholder justice.

The research reported in this volume represents the second stage of a wide-ranging National Bureau of Economic Research effort to investigate ""The Changing Role of Debt and Equity in Financing U.S. Capital Formation."" The first group of studies sponsored under this project, which have been published individually and summarized in a 1982 volume bearing the same title (Friedman 1982), addressed several key issues relevant to corporate sector behavior along with such other aspects of the evolving financial underpinnings of U.S. capital formation as household saving incentives, internationa

A fierce critique of productivity and sovereignty in the world of labor and everyday life, Bruno Gullì's Earthly Plenitudes asks, can labor exist without sovereignty and without capitalism? He introduces the concept of dignity of individuation to prompt a rethinking of categories of political ontology. Dignity of individuation stresses the notion that the dignity of each and any individual being lies in its being individuated as such; dignity is the irreducible and most essential character of any being. Singularity is a more universal quality.Gullì first reviews approaches to sove

The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an ""innovative model"" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground.Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to me

Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, BOXES, AND APPENDIXES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART 1 Executive Summary -- PART 2 Introduction -- PART 3 Poverty Profile -- PART 4 Causes of Poverty -- PART 5 Impacts of Poverty on Economic Growth and Development -- PART 6 Institutions and Governance in the Poverty Response -- PART 7 Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIXES -- TABLES -- 1 Offcial Sources of Poverty-Related Data -- 2 Poverty Incidence and Gini Coeffcient, 1985-2000 -- 3 Magnitude of Poverty in the Philippines Population, 1985-2000 -- 4 Annual Per Capita Poverty Thresholds, Poverty Incidence, and Magnitude of Poor Families: 2000, 2003, and 2006 -- 5 Annual Per Capita Poverty Thresholds, Poverty Incidence, and Magnitude of Poor Population: 2000, 2003, and 2006 -- 6 Ranking of Poorest Provinces in the Philippines, 2003 and 2006 -- 7 Poorest 20 Municipalities in the Philippines, 2003 -- 8 Poverty Incidence and Magnitude by Island Grouping -- 9 Provinces with the Largest Numbers of Poor People -- 10 Annual Per Capita Food Thresholds, Subsistence Incidence, and Magnitude Subsistence of Poor Families: 2000, 2003, and 2006 -- 11 Distribution of Poor and Nonpoor Households in Urban and Rural Areas, 2006 -- 12 Income Gap, Poverty Gap, and Severity by Regions -- 13 Poverty Incidence and Magnitude of Poor Population by Sector, 2000 and 2003 -- 14 Distribution of Poor and Nonpoor Households by Family Size -- 15 Distribution of Poor and Nonpoor Households by Sector of Work of Household Head -- 16 Distribution of Poor and Nonpoor Households by Occupation of Household Head -- 17 Components of Per Capita Income of Households, 1997-2006 -- 18 Percentage of Families with Access to Minimum Basic Needs, by Income Strata, 2002 and 2004 -- 19 Income Inequality, 1985-2006 (Gini Ratio).

In a first attempt to treat inflation targeting (IT) as a continuous variable, we construct IT subindices for 21 full-fledged ITers on three dimensions: flexibility, transparency, and explicitness. Comparing flexibility and transparency we find that (1) the impact of flexibility on both the mean and variation of inflation is more quadratic than that of transparency; (2) after adding the transparency index, the impact of flexibility is no longer significant. The significant and negative association between transparency and the level and variation of inflation is confirmed when we check for robu

This is the fifth of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit to which economists have access for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we add Indonesia to a previously estimated small quarterly projection model of the US, euro area, and Japanese economies. The model is estimated with Bayesian techniques, which provide a very efficient way of imposing restrictions to produce both plausible dynamics and sensible forecasting p