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1. Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Working but Poor

   Edited by Hiroyuki Hino, Gustav Ranis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   It is widely acknowledged that youth unemployment is one of the most critical challenges facing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume brings together an eminent group of international scholars to analyse the extent and complex nature of this joblessness, and offer a set of evidence-based...

   To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan

   Edited by Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Theory and Experience of Economic Development

   Essays in Honour of Sir Arthur Lewis

   Edited by Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, Gustav Ranis, Mark R. Rosenzweig

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis, 1979 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The authors, an international group of distinguished scholars, address a varied set of specific issues reflecting Professor Lewis’...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Globalization and Self-Determination

   Is the Nation-State Under Siege?

   By David R. Cameron, Gustav Ranis, Annalisa Zinn

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and...

   Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Globalization and the Nation State

   The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

   By Stephen Kosack, Gustav Ranis, James Vreeland

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programmes. The cutting-edge techniques of the new political economy are thus brought to bear on international issues for the first time. The book includes contributions from...

   Published January 25th 2007 by Routledge