Product Description: The Church in the Modern World: Fifty Years after Gaudium et Spes commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Featuring scholars from the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, this book offers a future-orientated analysis by highlighting contemporary social issues through the lens of Gaudium et Spes...read more

Product Description: For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other...read more

Product Description: In The Pursuit of Happiness, renowned economist Carol Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness and clearly presents both the promise and the potential pitfalls of injecting the "economics of happiness" into public policymaking...read more

Product Description: This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and economics. Tentative contents include: • Boom Towns and Ghost Countries: Geography, Agglomeration, and Population Mobility Lant Pritchett (World Bank) • Global Wage Differences and International Worker Flows Mark Rosenzweig (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) • What's Wrong with Plan B? International Migration as the Alternative to Development Devesh Kapur (University of Texas) and John Hale (Michigan State University) • Global Labor Markets: Issues and Implications Alan Blinder (Princeton University), Michael Kremer (Harvard University), Carmen Pages (World Bank), and Isabel Sawhill (Brookings Institution...read more

Product Description: A fascinating story of the first Anglican Indian bishop to be consecrated, who played a great part in the extension of Christianity in India and in the cause of Christian unity both there and throughout the world. Contents Include: Foreword by the Archbishop of York - Hail - The Early Years - The Indian Evangelist - The Bishop of Dornakal - The Mass Movement - Building up the Church - Twenty-Five Years a Bishop - The Apostle of India - The Prophet of the World-Wide Church - Farewel...read more

Product Description: This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Contents: GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate Martin Ravallion (World Bank) Channels from Globalization to Inequality: Productivity World versus Factor World William Easterly (New York University) Health in an Age of Globalization Angus Deaton (Princeton University) BROADER INDICATORS OF WELL-BEING Assessing the Impact of Globalization on Poverty and Inequality: A New Lens on an Old Puzzle Carol Graham (Brookings Institution) Poverty and the Organization of Political Violence: A Review and Some Conjectures Nicholas Sambanis (Yale University) IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION Trade, Inequality, and Poverty: What Do We Know? Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) and Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College) The Impact of Globalization on the Poor Pranab Bardhan (University of California, Berkeley) LOOKING FORWARD Why Global Inequality Matters Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development) Some Speculation on Growth and Poverty over the Twenty-First Century Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)...read more

The plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In March 2002, President Bush announced the creation of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). This bilateral development fund represents an increase of $5 billion per year over current assistance levels and establishes of a new agency to promote growth in reform-oriented developing countries. Amounting to a doubling of U.S. bilateral development aid—the largest increase in decades -- the MCA offers a critical chance to deliberately shape the face that the United States presents to people in poor nations around the world. This book makes concrete recommendations on crafting a new blueprint for distributing and delivering aid to make the MCA an effective tool, not only in its own right, but also in transforming U.S. foreign aid and strengthening international aid cooperation more generally. The book tackles head on the tension between foreign policy and development goals that chronically afflicts U.S. foreign assistance; the danger of being dismissed as one more instance of the United States going it alone instead of buttressing international cooperation; and the risk of exacerbating confusion among the myriad overlapping U.S. policies, agencies, and programs targeted at developing nations, particularly USAID. In doing so, The Other War draws important lessons from new international development initiatives, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, the mixed record of previous U.S. aid efforts, trends in the U.S. budget for foreign assistance, the agencies currently involved in administering U.S. development policy, and the importance of the relationship between Congress and the executive branch in determining aid outcomes. The MCA holds the promise of substantially increasing U.S. development assistance and pioneering a new era in aid, but the authors caution against creating yet another example of wasted aid that could undermine political support for foreign assistance for decades to come. About the Authors Lael Brainard is director of the Brookings/CGD Project on the Millennium Challenge Account and holds the New Century Chair in Economic Studies and Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Carol Graham is Vice President and Director of the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where she also directs the Global Poverty Reduction Initiative. Steven Radelet is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. Nigel Purvis is a senior scholar in Foreign Policy, Economic, and Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Gayle E. Smith is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and formerly was senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council.

Product Description: Subjective well being, or happiness, has been analyzed in detail by psychologists for decades. Yet only recently has it become the subject of economic analysis. In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well being and the political sustainability of market-oriented economic growth in 17 Latin American countries and Russia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Carol Graham examines the effects of market-based strategies on the performance of public institutions, the political sustainability of market reforms, and equity...read more

Product Description: Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies. Most of these countries have fragile democratic regimes that are threatened by the high social and political costs of reform. Governments—and ultimately societies—have to make hard choices about allocating scarce public resources as they undergo these transitions...read more

Product Description: Spending on U.S. foreign affairs, which constitutes only about one percent of the federal budget, is being sharply reduced. Under the President's 1996 budget plan, it will decline by just as great a percentage as defense between 1990 and 2002—and by substantially more than defense over the 1980-2002 period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When Peru's APRA - one of the oldest and most controversial political parties in Latin America - came to power in 1985, expectations were high for the new government, and in part because a decade of economic decline and social crisis had discredited both the military and the right as alternatives...read more

Product Description: During the recent transition to democracy in Chile, one of the most divisive issues has been the extent of poverty and the appropriate government response. As in the debate over human rights violations, at issue are the extent and severity of the problem, with ideology playing a major role in the positions taken...read more