Vos R. (team coordinator). World economic situation and prospects 2011

Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1999. The author originally decided to write this book because of his dissatisfaction with the typical textbooks in international economics, macroeconomics, and the related subjects that he teaches. These textbooks do not present the major structural changes and recent events in the global economy to his satisfaction; insufficient attention is typically given to financial market globalization, new trade patterns,...

Peterson Institute for Internal Economics, 2010. - 256 pages. The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a collaboration of two of the world's preeminent research institutions-the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Strategic and International Studies-examines Russia after the financial crisis of 2007-2009. In the aftermath of the crisis, what is Russia's current economic status and role in the world ord...

John Wiley & Sons, 2010. - 464 pages. Where everyone today has an opinion on everything, much of it gleaned from a blog, Bud Conrad's constant mantra is 'What does the data say?' And then he rolls up his sleeves and works almost around the clock for as many days as it takes to get to a defensible answer. In other words, there are those who talk, and those who do. Bud does. In Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis, Bud tells you what th...

Routledge, 1998. 366 p. This collection of outstanding essays explores the importance of regionalization and globalization to the world economy. International contributions explore the process of regionalization in the Pacific Area, the Americas, Africa and Europe, and question whether the world economy is characterized by increasing regionalization, rather than globalization. Contributors investigate: how the processes of globalization and regi...

Bеrrett-Koеhler Рublishers, 2009. - 196 pages. Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. It's like treating cancer with a bandage. Korten identifies the deeper sources of the failure: Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of creating "wealth" without producing anything of real...

W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. - 361 pages. An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world’s future prosperity. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exp...

6th Edition. This comprehensive text explores contemporary geographic topics and perspectives relating to the world economy. The authors provide a strong theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the global economy in an era of shifting borders, restructuring economies, and regional realignments. Economic theory is combined with geography to address critical problems of growth, distribution, and development, along with their impact...

Progressive Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (May 25, 2009). 700 pages. The Book that Shows the Way out of the World Depression Here is the indispensable hand-book for the present breakdown crisis and disintegration of the world financial, currency, and banking system. Webster Tarpley builds on his prophetic work of 1999, which showed the world heading for a financial cataclysm and economic depression due to deregulated derivatives specula-tion...

World Bank, 2010. - 184 pages. This report explores both the short - and medium-term impacts of the financial crisis on developing countries. It presents evidence that the financial boom played a critical role in the growth boom experienced by developing countries between 2003 and 2007, but that tighter conditions in the future are expected to result in weaker growth over the next 5 to 15 years. Although global growth has resumed, the recovery...

It is an annual report published by the World Bank. Each WDR provides in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of economic development. Past reports have considered such topics as agriculture, youth, equity, public services delivery, the role of the state, transition economies, labour, infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. The reports are the Bank's best-known contribution to thinking about development.