The Integration of Sustainable Development in a Coherent International
In September 2015, world leaders adopted a new post-2015 development agenda, centered on 17 Sustainable Development Goals intended to transform the world. This report provides basic information about the new agenda-its content, aspirations, and global partnership approach.
This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts? The authors examine orthodox theories of growth grounded in different schools of economics (classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, neoliberal) before considering critical alternatives (Marxist, ......
There is real promise for developing economies in the mobilization of their own domestic resources. And as aid levels from wealthy nations continue to be uncertain, countries have an impetus to finance their own development in order to deliver responsible, transparent public services-all of which require a strong tax base from the formal sector.
Africa's changing economic landscape is prompting a shift in how U.S. policymakers view the continent. High growth rates, new technologies, and a rapidly expanding consumer class are driving greater global competition for investment and access to potential export markets, and the United States is recognizing that it will need to step up its game ......
The report from the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development outlines a new tool for policymakers to encourage private-sector development in developing nations. Specifically, it argues that in fragile states there is an intermediation gap between sources of capital and entrepreneurs seeking investment. This gap prevents investment by raising ......
Strategies for Ending a Tax on Private-sector Growth
Corruption remains a priority area for both the private sector and development implementers. However, there is no consensus on actionable steps toward addressing it on a global level. This issue is especially important in the context of international trade and development as the private sector plays an increasing role in development outcomes. ......
The link between economic development and state security has been well documented. As policymakers consider that link, the model for international development in the twenty-first century must include both governments and the private sector. In this new report, the CSIS Scholl Chair in International Business and the CSIS Project on Prosperity and ......
New Challenges and New Priorities for a New Demographic Era
The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling birthrates and slowing population growth. This ......
The Partnership for Growth (PfG) is one of the first experiments to operationalize the Obama administration's strategy to bring greater programmatic coherence to U.S. trade and development initiatives in four countries-The Philippines, El Salvador, Ghana, and Tanzania. A key goal was to reinforce a country-led approach, but to also bring to the ......
There is a broad and enduring international consensus that good governance and the rule of law are important for the attainment of sustainable development results. But recognizing that good governance is important for development is one thing; carrying out effective international programs to support improved governance is something very different. ......
A New Framework, Applied to Afghanistan's Police Training Program
When recipients cannot absorb the aid and attention they are offered, the common response is "capacity building"-as if the source of the problem is the recipient's implementation capacity. In this report, Robert D. Lamb and Kathryn Mixon present the results of their research on the sources of absorptive capacity. They find that this sort of ......
Since the atomic bomb made its first appearance on the world stage in 1945, it has been clear that we possess the power to destroy our own planet. What nuclear weapons made possible, global environmental crisis, marked especially by global warming, has now made inevitable--if business as usual continues. The roots of the present ecological ......
Potential sales of billions of dollars of energy equipment produced by U.S. companies are at stake in the major economies of the region. They are expected to import as much as $16 billion worth of energy products over the next few years to power their economic growth. But unless the United States launches new initiatives to snare sizable shares of ......
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to drop, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is ......
A real-world assessment of Fair Trade's effectiveness. Drawing upon anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, this title uses ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals.
A real-world assessment of Fair Trade's effectiveness. Drawing upon anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, this title uses ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals.
Since 2008, when Fixing Global Finance was first published, the collapse of the housing and credit bubbles of the 2000s has crippled the world's economy. In this updated edition, Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf explains how global imbalances helped cause the financial crises now ravaging the U.S. economy and outlines steps ......
In recent years, China has become a major actor in the global economy, making a remarkable switch from a planned and egalitarian socialism to a simultaneously wide-open and tightly controlled market economy. Against the establishment wisdom, Minqi Li argues in this provocative and startling book that far from strengthening capitalism, China's full ......
Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs
Organized into three thematic sections - foreign policy and national security, economic policy and social issues, and domestic politics and governance, this book includes essays that cover salient topics such as China's military power, de-communization, growing economic strength, nationalism, and the possibility for democracy.
Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs
China's dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. This title provides an overview of the region, highlighting key issues as they developed in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
China is the fastest-growing economy in the world today. For many on the left, the Chinese economy seems to provide an alternative model of development to that of neoliberal globalization. Although it is a disputed question whether the Chinese economy can be still described as socialist, there is no doubting the importance for the global project ......
China is the fastest-growing economy in the world today. For many on the left, the Chinese economy seems to provide an alternative model of development to that of neoliberal globalization. Although it is a disputed question whether the Chinese economy can be still described as socialist, there is no doubting the importance for the global project ......
Why, while Europe, North America, and Australia have developed, have Africa, much of Asia, and Latin America remained underdeveloped? Andre Gunder Frank sets out to answer this basic question by showing how world capital accumulation has led to the differentiation of these regions within the single world-embracing economic system. Unequal exchange ......
Unlike traditional approaches, which analyse economic systems in terms of their mechanics (inputs, outputs, prices, technology etc.), this work views them as systems for coordinating human actions and relationships.
Emerging from a program undertaken by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, eight studies examine the political, economic, and security developments of east Asia and implications for the US. Among the topics are the relevance of the Japanese experie
In recent years, the Republic of Guinea has shed its reputation as one of the most tightly controlled state economies in Africa, leaving behind a cloistered era marked by an extraordinarily closed economic and political system. This title presents an overview of the Guinean economy, and its evolution.
In his second book, Andre Gunder Frank expands on the theme presented in his influential study Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. It is the colonial structure of world capitalism, in his view, which produced and maintains the underdevelopment characteristic of Latin America and the rest of the Third World. This colonial structure ......
Conventional wisdom has it that government management of the economy is the means to transform a backward economy into a dynamic, modern one. This book showcases a range of development experiences in order to ascertain the reasons for this quagmire.
Conventional wisdom has it that government management of the economy is the means to transform a backward economy into a dynamic, modern one. This book showcases a range of development experiences in order to ascertain the reasons for this quagmire.
Outlines the structure of the Tanzanian economy, considering the impact of previous policies, as well as current stabilisation and adjustment measures, on the Tanzanian population. The text rejects official statistics as failing to give an accurate picture of Tanzanian economic development.
Socio-Economic Development in a Changing Environment
The formulation of a rural development strategy for any country is an extremely difficult and multi-faceted task, especially so for a country as large and diversified as Indonesia. Illustrating again how economic growth in urban areas rarely translates into a decrease in rural poverty, this volume identifies the impact of recent changes in the ......
This important essay dates from the end of the fifties. During this era, the dominant theories of economic growth were based on conditions of private ownership of capital and where investment is primarily under the control of private individuals or firms. Dobbs, however, considers the alternatives. He asks: Do such theories have a more ......
Banks, Government and Multilaterals Confront the Crisis
Suitable for the nontechnical reader and intended to intervene in the policy debate, this book offers informative analysis, controversial assessments, and concrete solutions to bring a close the bleakest period for the Third World since the end of World War II.
