The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
Book abstract: When countries discover that they possess large deposits of oil and natural gas, the news is usually welcome.
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A Personal Journey to the Heart of Greece’s Darkness
The Little Economy That Could
All right, confess: If you've heard of Mauritius at all, it's probably because you know it as the former home of the dodo bird.
Developing Countries Will Follow Post-crisis OECD Reforms but Not Passively This Time
Will reforms emerging from the 2008 crisis have a global impact and influence developing countries? Evidence suggests that this happened before, after meltdowns in the 1970s.
Escaping The Natural-Resource Curse
Libyans have a new lease on life, a feeling that, at long last, they are the masters of their own fate. Perhaps Iraqis, after a decade of warfare, feel the same way.
Science Meets Farming in Africa
The role of science, technology, and engineering in solving Africa's most challenging economic problems—from telecommunications to agriculture to infectious diseases—is no longer in question.
Feeding the Next Generation: Science, Business, and Public Policy
Today, three of ten people on the planet rely on others to grow their food and 900 million remain chronically food insecure.
Preventing Hunger: Biotechnology is Key
To survive the droughts, wars and other major causes of famine, Africa must embrace technologies that enable it to produce more, better food with less effort. Indeed, without the advances in molecula
The Churches, Foreign Policy, and Global Poverty: New Approaches? New Partnerships?
Poverty, although it has declined dramatically in the last few decades, affects more than a billion people in the contemporary world.
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity measures the diversity of productive knowledge of 128 countries and demonstrates remarkable predictive value in forecasting how fast count
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