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The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies
Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural econom...
Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from...
The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade
Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open-Economy Politics, Robert Bates explor...
The Political Economy of Development
In his new edition of Prosperity and Violence, Robert Bates continues to investigate the relationship between political order and economic growth....
A Game Theoretic Approach
Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of sev...
The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya
As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. In Beyond the Miracle of the Market, first...
Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History
Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's past Today’s developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only ...
Explores Africa in the late twentieth century, focusing on the logic of political order and the foundations of the state....
The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can ...
The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies: With a New Preface
Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farm...
An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend...
The period from 1960 to 2000 was one of remarkable growth and transformation in the world economy. Why did most of Sub-Saharan Africa fail to develop ...
The epic account of the 1938 American expedition to the summit of K2. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved....
This study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable b...
The Classic True Story of Disaster and Survival on the World's Second Highest Mountain
The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world....
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Lessons from Post-independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of...
The Failure of Open Politics
Why has democracy failed to take root in Russia? This book shows that Russia's failure to democratize has three causes: too much economic reliance on ...
Causes and Consequences in Zambia
A Study of Village Zambia
Monograph on rural development and the response of the rural population of Zambia to industrialization and urbanization - examines cash crop farming a...
A Study of Mineworkers in Zambia
Commentary on the Zambian government policy attempting to use the dominant political party and the mineworkers' trade union to enforce relatively stri...