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Look to Brazil for safe, stable investmentsAs the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don’t provide much hope, but what about somewhere th… more

Person to person networks in the UK have grown over the last 10 years fuelled by the many middle management unemployed caused during the recent downsizing of many international corporations.Self employed people need to network, in the harsh… more

Titus Tossy , Arusha , Tanzania . The world economy is expected to grow by 4% in 2012. The U.S. and the eurozone will expand at less than half that rate. So, like the scalper, if you’ve got something to sell, you’ve got to stand on the corn… more

Nobel-Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argues that business leaders need to understand the differences between economic policy on the national and international scale and business strategy on the organizational scale. Economists deal wi… more

The fifth installment of the Fisher Investments On series is a comprehensive guide to understanding and analyzing investment opportunities within emerging markets. Growing in relative importance in recent years, emerging markets offer dynam… more

This book presents a blueprint that focuses on ways of building individual capacity around creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The blueprint consists of three Pillars:- Psychological Capital (who you are)- Human Capital (what you … more

Job-seekers, business-developers, and all sorts of professionals are exploring the fast-growing world of online networking. But how do you plunge into the online networking sphere, and how do you gain value from it? HAPPY ABOUT ONLINE NETWO… more

In a world where boundaries and borders are blurred and seemingly distant threats can metastasize quickly, the battle against global poverty has become a fight of necessity—not simply because morality demands it, but because global securit… more

This paper reviews China’s experience with market-oriented reform since 1978, including domestic reforms, the opening of the economy to foreign trade and investment, and the decentralization of decision making. It identifies special conditi… more

Ours is the most dynamic era in human history. The benefits of four centuries of technological and organizational change are at last reaching a previously excluded global majority. This transformation will create large-scale opportunities i… more

Help people help themselves: That’s the idea behind microcredit. Small loans-sometimes no more than $50-can radically improve the life of a poor family. Where development aid and billion-dollar loans fail, microcredit is emerging as the suc… more

Over the course of five decades, John Williamson has published an extraordinary number of books, articles, and other pieces on topics ranging from international monetary economics to development policy and bridging scholarly literature and … more

The making of the modern world is a question of perennial interest. We are, after all, modern. One of the signal developments of modernity is that for the first time, widespread economic prosperity becomes possible. Not all societies attain… more

If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional econom… more

This book provides a comprehensive overview of economic developments in Russia since the late 1990s. Key subjects covered include economic transition, privatization and liberalization, changes in land ownership and agriculture, energy, fore… more

Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduc… more

India’s success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive role of government regulation, and on the need for economic inc… more

“…if the history you know is given to you by someone with no clue of what human nature is really capable of achieving, question it and you may discover a secret that has been kept from you about a success that has always been possible.”That… more

This book provides a unique level of coverage of economic and political events of global significance, including foreign trade, foreign direct investment, the impact of oil and natural gas finds, Islamic extremism, the 11 September 2001 ter… more

For the first time in the history of the institutions, each of the major Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are simultaneously seeking increases in their capital bases to fund the continued expansion of their development lending programs… more