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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,526 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 23,985 ratings — published 2011
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,639 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,211 ratings — published 2005
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,647 ratings — published 2001
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,363 ratings — published 2000
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,945 ratings — published 2013
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,962 ratings — published 2007
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,868 ratings — published 1998
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,711 ratings — published 2000
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,207 ratings — published 2009
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,055 ratings — published 1999
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 994 ratings — published 2011
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,435 ratings — published 2013
MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 196 ratings — published 1982
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,396 ratings — published 2002
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,359 ratings — published 2014
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,920 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,418 ratings — published 2023
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,304 ratings — published 2011
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,434 ratings — published 2016
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,665 ratings — published 2007
The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 505 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,370 ratings — published 1997
Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2009
Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.76 — 160 ratings — published 2013
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,457 ratings — published 2013
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 641 ratings — published 1990
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 365 ratings — published 2021
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.62 — 3,755 ratings — published 2017
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 351 ratings — published 2007
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,970 ratings — published 2018
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,491 ratings — published 2019
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,612 ratings — published 2017
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 364 ratings — published 2016
Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2017
Rethinking Development Economics (Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development, 1)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 48 ratings — published 2003
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 226 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,115 ratings — published 2016
Economic Development (8th Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 496 ratings — published 1977
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,280 ratings — published 2007
The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 474 ratings — published 1990
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,708 ratings — published 1971
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,082 ratings — published 2011
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 287 ratings — published 2007
A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.74 — 177 ratings — published 2007
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,950 ratings — published 1973
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 502 ratings — published 1994
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 727 ratings — published 1990
The New Geography of Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,728 ratings — published 2012
“Indeed, the move to connect public subsidy and private compliance must be understood in the context of the postwar history of urban redevelopment initiatives, most of which have been considered failures. A thorough history of these programs is beyond this chapter, but the litany of criticisms is familiar: Urban redevelopment has relied too heavily on private-side investment; it has emphasized displacement and gentrification over reinvestment; it has lacked citizen participation or neighborhood input; and it has been riddled with patronage, incompetence, and distribution to favored groups. Mostly, however, urban redevelopment policy has been unsuccessful.”
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