1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457320503321

Autore

Hubbard R. Glenn

Titolo

The aid trap [[electronic resource] ] : hard truths about ending poverty / / R. Glenn Hubbard, William Duggan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia Business School Pub., c2009

ISBN

0-231-51950-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Columbia Business School Publishing

Altri autori (Persone)

DugganWilliam R

Disciplina

338.9109172/4

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Developing countries

Poverty - Developing countries

Economic development - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the charity trap -- Business first: the roots of prosperity in the modern world -- Business last: the roots of failure in poverty aid -- Strong medicine: the Marshall plan as a business model -- Chase the devil: details for a Marshall model -- Conclusion: make it your business.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector& mdash;the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the business sector is weak, but foreign aid continues to fund government and NGOs. Switching aid to the local business sector in order to cultivate a middle class is the oldest, surest, and only way to eliminate poverty in poor countries.A bold fusion of ethics and smart business,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910380744903321

Autore

Koźmiński Andrzej K.

Titolo

The Balanced Development Index for Europe’s OECD countries, 1999–2017 / / by Andrzej K. Koźmiński, Adam Noga, Katarzyna Piotrowska, Krzysztof Zagórski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-39240-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (123 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Economics, , 2191-5504

Disciplina

338.94

Soggetti

Development economics

Europe—Economic conditions

Economic policy

Economics

Development Economics

European Economics

Political Economy/Economic Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: GDP Shortcomings and a Brief History of Creating General Measures of Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 3: Conceptual and Theoretical Basis of Balanced Development Index (BDI) -- Chapter 4: To Weight or Not to Weight? -- Chapter 5: Four Domains of Socio-Economic Development and their Indicators as BDI Components -- Chapter 6: International Differences in the Level and Pace of Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 7: Chainges in BDI, its Four Components and GDP -- Chapter 8: BDI, Other Composite Measures of Socio-Economic Conditions and Happiness -- Chapter 9: Case Study: Poland -- Chapter 10: Emotional and Rational Countries -- Chapter 11: Development and Socio-Economic Balance -- Chapter 12: Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the Balanced Development Index (BDI), measuring socioeconomic development in twenty-two European OECD member countries in a period 1999-2017. Compared to other composite



measures of development, BDI looks beyond traditional development indicators, such as GDP, to create an index which gives equal weight to social, economic, objective, and subjective aspects of development. The BDI aggregates forty-two detailed indicators into four composite middle-level indexes: external economic (characterizing functioning of national economies in their international surroundings), internal economic (characterizing various aspects of domestic economic conditions), social expectations (public hopes and fears concerning economic, political and social conditions), and current social condition (including both objective and subjective social indicators)—which are, in turn, aggregated into the general BDI index.