By Monique Kremer, Peter van Lieshout, Robert Went

What drives improvement? What new matters have arisen because of globalization? and what sort of regulations give a contribution to improvement in a quickly altering global? The stories in Doing solid or Doing higher research different improvement recommendations hired on a number of continents, handle present demanding situations, and argue new approach—one various from the eu and American models—is precious in a globalizing, interdependent international.

Show description

Read Online or Download Doing Good or Doing Better: Development Policies in a Globalizing World (WRR Verkenningen) PDF

Similar globalization books

Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat

Howard Lyman's testimony at the Oprah Winfrey exhibit printed the lethal influence of the cattle on our health and wellbeing. It not just resulted in Oprah's assertion that she'd by no means devour a burger back, it despatched surprise waves via a involved and susceptible public.
A fourth-generation Montana rancher, Lyman investigated using chemical compounds in agriculture after constructing a spinal tumor that almost paralyzed him. Now a vegetarian, he blasts during the propaganda of pork and dairy pursuits -- and the govt organisations that guard them -- to reveal an animal-based vitamin because the basic reason for melanoma, center disorder, and weight problems during this kingdom. He warns that the farm animals is repeating the blunders that ended in Mad Cow illness in England whereas at the same time inflicting critical harm to the surroundings.
Persuasive, elementary, and entire of the down-home stable humor and optimism of a son of the soil, Mad Cowboy is either an inspirational tale of private transformation and a resounding name to motion for a plant-based nutrition -- for the nice of the planet and the future health people all.

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

IS GLOBALIZATION AN unintentional RECIPE FOR struggle?
Taking this query as its start line, James Macdonald's whilst Globalization Fails deals a wealthy, unique account of battle, peace, and exchange within the 20th century—and a cautionary story for the twenty-first.

In the overdue 19th century, liberals exulted that the unfold of foreign trade may herald prosperity and peace. An period of financial interdependence, they believed, could render wars too high priced to salary. yet those desires have been dashed via the carnage of 1914–1918. looking the security of financial self-sufficiency, international locations became first to protectionism after which to territorial enlargement within the 1930s—leading back to devastating clash. Following the second one global conflict, the globalists attempted once again. With the communist bloc disconnected from the worldwide economic climate, a brand new foreign order was once created, buttressing loose alternate with the casual supremacy of the U.S.. yet this benign interval is coming to an finish.

According to Macdonald, the worldwide trade in items is a combined blessing. It makes international locations wealthier, but additionally extra weak. And whereas financial interdependence pushes towards cooperation, the ensuing experience of financial lack of confidence pulls within the contrary direction—toward repeated clash. In Macdonald's telling, the 1st international War's naval blockades have been as vital as its trenches, and the second one international warfare may be understood as an inevitable fight for important uncooked fabrics in a global that had rejected unfastened alternate. this day China's monetary and army growth is undermining the Pax Americana that had stored financial insecurities at bay, threatening to resurrect the aggressive multipolar international of the early 20th century with all its attendant hazards. Expertly mixing political and financial background and enlivened by way of vibrant citation, while Globalization Fails recasts what we all know concerning the earlier and increases important questions on the longer term.

Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World (California Series in Public Anthropology)

Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of world crime during this attractive paintings of anthropology that has the facility to alter the way in which we expect in regards to the global. to put in writing this e-book, she spent 3 years touring to scorching spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S. investigating the dynamics of unlawful exchange round the world--from blood diamonds and hands to prescribed drugs, exotica, and staples like nutrients and oil.

Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes: Lessons from Cognitive Research for Developing Countries (World Bank Directions in Development)

There are nearly a thousand million grownup illiterates on the planet. grownup literacy courses in constructing nations are frequently ineffectual and relatively constrained results. to enhance results, a lot emphasis has been given to empowering nongovernmental firms, expanding learner motivation, and reinforcing social advantages.

Additional info for Doing Good or Doing Better: Development Policies in a Globalizing World (WRR Verkenningen)

Sample text

The North-South gap has been narrowing, at least with the upper-income developing countries. With newly industrializing countries becoming locomotives of the world economy, the question becomes all the more pressing: what about inequality in emerging societies? Here a key question is the nature of accumulation. Is inequality built into the growth path or does it recede with growth; is growth polarizing or is it geared towards inclusive development? 12 Fast growth or broad-based development is a classic dilemma.

By focusing attention on the impact of official aid (oda) aimed at accelerating growth, development and poverty alleviation, this is no longer the case today. ” requires an answer not only to whether official aid (oda) “works” but also to whether humanitarian aid and aid provided by ngos, civil society organizations (csos) and private foundations also ‘works’. Neither contemporary discourse about aid impact nor the data most readily available have caught up with these changes in the ways that the whole aid system currently functions.

Lloyd and A. Turkeltaub, ‘India and China are the only real Bricks in the wall’, Financial Times, December 4, 2006: 13. g. Hutton 2008. As George Soros comments, “The global financial system as it is currently constituted is characterized by a pernicious asymmetry. The financial authorities of the developed countries are in charge and will do whatever it takes to prevent the system from collapsing. They are, however, less concerned with the fate of countries at the periphery. (…) This asymmetry explains why the us has been able to run up an ever-increasing current account deficit over the past quarter of a century.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.80 of 5 – based on 12 votes