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Features analytical studies that seek to explain the major differences in economic performance by considering the dynamics of international economic growth, diverging growth rates, economic structures, and sources of demand, successes and collapses in the developing world, and the episodes of real income stagnation of various countries.

This volume of analytical studies examines the major differences in economic performance in recent decades between the developing and developed economies. Most developing countries have lagged increasingly far behind, but this growing North-South gap has been masked by the better economic performance of China, India and the East Asian Tigers, implying the expansion of the "middle income" category. The high-profile contributors consider the dyn...

While the international community has made a commitment to achieving full employment, this goal seems ever more distant in view of recent trends such as growing unemployment, underemployment and the phenomenon of jobless growth. This book also breaks new ground in seeking fresh solutions. Employment creation is the key link in ensuring that economic growth contributes to poverty reduction, with management of technological change playing a cruc...

Brings together the research on the MDGs' progress and reveals their major flaws. This book proposes long-term investment alternatives for education, health, and infrastructure. It reveals disparate problems faced by the UN in developing a coherent Development Agenda.