Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match (International Studies Intensives) (International Studies Intensives)

Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match (International Studies Intensives) (International Studies Intensives)
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Страниц
 
160
ISBN
 
1594515220
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Penguin Press HC
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Новые поступления. Бизнес и экономика

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Rejecting the flat worldism of the globalists as well as the peaks and valleys of trade and aid policies over the years, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh guide us through the raging debate over the best route to development for the poorer nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This book takes readers on a journey through the rise and fall of the one-size-fits-all model of development that richer nations began imposing on poorer ones three decades ago. That model called the Washington Consensus by its backers and neoliberalism or market fundamentalism by its critics placed enormous power in markets to solve the problems of the poor. The authors have stood at the epicenter of these debates from their perches in the United Nations, the U.S. government, academia, and civil society. They guide us back in time to understand why the Washington Consensus dominated for so long, and how it devastated workers, the environment, and the poor. At the same time, they chart the rise of an...

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