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UNINA9910782528903321 |
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Stein Howard <1952-> |
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Beyond the World Bank agenda [[electronic resource] ] : an institutional approach to development / / Howard Stein |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
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1-281-96654-1 |
9786611966546 |
0-226-77165-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Economic development - Developing countries |
Institutional economics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-325) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Reflections on the History of the World Bank Agenda -- II. Economic Theory and the World Bank Agenda: A Critical Evaluation -- III. Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality compared to previous periods. In Beyond the World Bank Agenda, Howard Stein argues that the controversial institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political |
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UNINA9910784986903321 |
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Borik Olga <1972-> |
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Aspect and reference time / / Olga Borik |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, UK, , 2006 |
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1-280-87020-6 |
0-19-151624-4 |
1-4294-7110-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics ; ; v.No. 13 |
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Russian language |
Russian language - Aspect |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Main theories of aspect (I): The telicity approach; 3 Perfectivity in Russian in terms of telicity: testing the hypothesis; 4 Main theories of aspect (2): The point of view approach; 5 Reference time; 6 Russian aspect in terms of Reference time; References; Index |
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Investigating the temporal structure of language, this text deals with issues in the understanding of tense and aspect proposes a new approach to the main problems in the area, and seeks to establish the universal semantic properties of two important and contentious aspectual categories, perfectivity and imperfectivity. |
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