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  • Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
    Andy Sumner / Lukas Schlogl
    This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ’robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature...
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    67,34 €

  • Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
    Andy Sumner / Lukas Schlogl
    This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ’robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature...
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    52,98 €

  • Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
    Andy Sumner / Lukas Schlogl
    This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ’robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature...
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    35,92 €

  • The End of Poverty
    Andy Sumner / Peter Edward
    In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines. Starting with the same datasets used to produce official estimates of global poverty, they create a model of global consumption that spans the entire world’s population. They go on to demonstrate how...
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    71,65 €

  • Development and Distribution
    Andy Sumner
    Since the Second World War, surprisingly few developing countries have experienced a truly sustained episode of economic and social convergence towards the structural characteristics of the advanced nations. East Asia has exceeded most regions in its achievement of convergence, and much has been written on comparative industrialization and development in North East Asia. Less d...
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    116,48 €

  • Global Poverty
    Andy Sumner
    Why are some people poor? Why does absolute poverty persist despite substantial economic growth? What types of late economic development or ’catch-up’ capitalism are associated with different poverty outcomes? Global Poverty addresses these apparently simple questions and the extent to whichthe answers may be shifting. One might expect global poverty to be focused in the world’...
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    68,28 €

  • Aid, Growth and Poverty
    Andy Sumner / Jonathan Glennie
    The authors discuss the impact of foreign aid and tackle the question of why assessing the impact of aid is so difficult. The authors focus on peer-reviewed, cross-country studies published over the last decade and draw together some global-level assessments, considering the context and conditions under which aid might be said to ’work’. Glennie and Sumner argue that the eviden...
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    65,52 €

  • The Future of Foreign Aid
    Andy Sumner / Richard Mallett
    The landscape of foreign aid is changing. New development actors are on the rise, from the ’emerging’ economies to numerous private foundations and philanthropists. At the same time the nature of the global poverty ’problem’ has also changed: most of the world’s poor people no longer live in the poorest countries. Building on an academic review of research on foreign aid, Sumne...
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    84,32 €

  • Child poverty, evidence and policy
    Andy Sumner / Nicola A. Jones
    This book is about the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates. ...
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    48,32 €

  • Child poverty, evidence and policy
    Andy Sumner / Nicola A. Jones
    This book is about the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates. ...
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    112,74 €

  • Economics and Development Studies
    Andy Sumner / Frederick Nixson / Michael Tribe
    Economics and Development Studies synthesises existing development economics literature, much of it very contemporary, in order to identify the salient issues and controversies and to make them accessible and understandable. ...
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    301,52 €