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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

by C. K. Prahalad

The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market is where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense untapped buying power. They represent an enormous opportunity for companies who learn how to serve them. Not only can it be done, it is being done--very profitably. What's more, companies aren't just making money: by serving these markets,... (more)

The White Man's Burden

Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

by William Russell Easterly

From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth , William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The... (more)

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

by Muhammad Yunus

In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a few, Grameen Bank now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are nearly 100... (more)

Development as Freedom

by Amartya Sen, Amartya Kumar Sen

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from... (more)

An Anarchy of Families: State Family in the Philippines (Wisconsin Monograph 10)

An Anarchy of Families: State Family in the Philippines (Wisconsin Monograph 10)

In this volume, Filipino, American and Australian scholars explore the great families who have led the Philippines during the past century.

Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines

Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines

by Paul D. Hutchcroft

In the early postwar years, the Philippines seemed poised for long-term economic success; within the region, only Japan had a higher standard of living. By the early 1990s, however, the country was dismissed as a perennial aspirant to the ranks of newly industrializing economies, unable to convert its substantial developmental assets into developmental success. Major reforms of the mid-1990s bring new hope,... (more)

The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines

The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines

by Walden F. Bello

This book examines how the political system of the Phillippines remains dominated by a competitive elite who oppose any significant attempts to address the country's huge social inequalities. The way out, he argues, is through the wholesale overhaul of the system of governance, leading to a new development strategy based on more, not less, state intervention, the domestic market as the driver of growth, and... (more)

The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional—an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go and Anne L.... (more)

The State, Economic Transformation, and Political Change in the Philippines, 1946-1972Amando Doronila

The State, Economic Transformation, and Political Change in the Philippines, 1946-1972

by Amando Doronila

This book offers a fresh interpretation of political change by examining the role of the State as a catalyst of socioeconomic and political transformation. It traces the process leading to the development of an interventionist State in the Philippines and its contribution to the breakdown of democracy and the declaration of martial law in 1972. The book also describes the interaction of social forces created by... (more)

The United States and the Philippines: A study of neocolonialism (Studies in political economy)Stephen Rosskamm Shalom

The United States and the Philippines: A study of neocolonialism (Studies in political economy)

by Stephen Rosskamm Shalom

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

by Jeffrey Sachs

A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world’s poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Sachs’s aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he ... (more)

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