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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,460 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,217 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 12 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,706 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,301 ratings — published 2005
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,464 ratings — published 2000
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,662 ratings — published 2001
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,073 ratings — published 2007
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 — 5,320 ratings — published 2013
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,245 ratings — published 1999
From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,292 ratings — published 2000
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,004 ratings — published 1998
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 — 8,409 ratings — published 2009
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 — 1,002 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 — 2,497 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 4.01 — 208 ratings — published 1982
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,531 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 — 1,390 ratings — published 2014
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,491 ratings — published 2025
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.88 — 56,422 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,467 ratings — published 2023
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,220 ratings — published 2019
Economic Development (8th Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 498 ratings — published 1977
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,642 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 — 5,893 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 4.25 — 518 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,807 ratings — published 1997
Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.77 — 167 ratings — published 2013
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,489 ratings — published 2013
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 656 ratings — published 1990
Corporate Site Selection and Economic Development: A 30-YEAR PERSPECTIVE (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 18 ratings — published
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 522 ratings — published 2021
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.61 — 4,228 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 4.16 — 366 ratings — published 2007
Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual (Global Issues)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 133 ratings — published 2004
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 4.35 — 207,192 ratings — published 2018
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,541 ratings — published 2011
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 3.81 — 1,725 ratings — published 2017
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 447 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 4.00 — 50 ratings — published 2003
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 232 ratings — published 2008
Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 2011
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,137 ratings — published 2014
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 4.19 — 2,213 ratings — published 2016
Globalization and its Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,306 ratings — published 2002
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,894 ratings — published 1971
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,452 ratings — published 2013
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 292 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 — 178 ratings — published 2007
“Gone are days when politics was an adventure of the hegemonic masculinity, when men were canonized and women demonized for being in politics. A Woman's strength lies in her intuition and femininity which when harnessed through proper education, give her the autonomy and power to participate in democracy and leadership. Women economic empowerment is a promise of a better and sustainable future.”
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“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace. ”
― The Mom & Pop Store: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving
― The Mom & Pop Store: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving
