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Ravi Kanbur is an economist, Professor at Cornell University. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as Chief Economist for Africa. He is President of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, Chair of the Board of United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research, member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance, Past-President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, past member of the High Level Advisory Council of the Climate Justice Dialogue, and past-member of the Core Group of the Commission on Global Poverty.
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Immiserizing Growth

Ravi Kanbur , Richard Sandbrook , Paul Shaffer


OUP Oxford

2019-01-10

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Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing in some of the towering figures of the classical tradition of political economy including Malthus, Ricardo, and Marx. It is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Immiserizing Growth
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Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing in some of the towering figures of the classical tradition of political economy including Malthus, Ricardo, and Marx. It is also not empirically...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Justice
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Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. In particular it requires that attempts to address justice between...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-11-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Justice
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Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. In particular it requires that attempts to address justice between...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-10-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence
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As Ghana approaches its 60th birthday, optimism and worries for the future continue to be present in equal measure. Economic growth in the last decade has been high by historical standards. Indeed, recent rebasing of GDP figures has put Ghana over the per capita income...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-02-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa
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In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid. The new era of political freedom was seen as the foundation for economic prosperity and inclusion. The last two decades have seen mixed results. Economic growth has been volatile. While inequalities in public services have...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa
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In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid. The new era of political freedom was seen as the foundation for economic prosperity and inclusion. The last two decades have seen mixed results. Economic growth has been volatile. While inequalities in public services have...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China
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China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it? How applicable are the lessons ofChina's economic reform of the past thirty years to the challenges it faces in the next three decades?...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China
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China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it? How applicable are the lessons ofChina's economic reform of the past thirty years to the challenges it faces in the next three decades?...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  International Development
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Thinking on development informs and inspires the actions of people, organizations, and states in their continuous effort to invent a better world. This volume examines the ideas behind development: their origins, how they have changed and spread over time, and how they...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-02-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa
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Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities? The Oxford Companion to the Economics ofAfrica is a definitive and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-01-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa
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Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities? The Oxford Companion to the Economics ofAfrica is a definitive and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-01-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Poverty Dynamics
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This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics. It does this from an interdisciplinary perspective and includes the work of anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-01-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-12-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-12-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Linking the Formal and Informal Economy
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The concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory and practice of development more than half a century after they were introduced into the debate. They help structure the way that statistical services collect data on the economies of developing countries,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-09-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Poverty, Inequality and Development
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This collection of essays honors a remarkable man and his work. Erik Thorbecke has made significant contributions to the microeconomic and the macroeconomic analysis of poverty, inequality and development, ranging from theory to empirics and policy. The essays in this...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Spatial Inequality and Development
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What exactly is spatial inequality? Why does it matter? And what should be the policy response to it? These questions have become important in recent years as the spatial dimensions of inequality have begun to attract considerable policy interest. In China, Russia,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2005-02-03

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