Product Description: Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present...read more

Product Description: • Does leadership affect economic growth and development?• Is leadership an exogenous determinant or an endogenous outcome of growth and development processes? Can we differentiate between the two?• Do leaders’ decisions and actions vary in importance over various stages in the process, at least in successful cases?• How important is choosing the right economic model?• To what extent does leadership affect the explicit or implicit time horizons of policy choices?• Is leadership an important determinant of inclusiveness in growth?• In what ways do leaders build consensus or institutions to allow time for the economic plan to work?• What challenges does economic success generate?• How do successful leaders adapt to new problems such as income inequality and a rising middle class?• Does the creation of new institutions play any role in solving these problems?• Why do leaders often choose second best political economic compromises in economic development?This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between leadership and economic growth...read more

Product Description: In Looking Forward, Marifeli Perez-Stable and her colleagues imagine Cuba's future after the “poof moment”—Jorge I. Domínguez's vivid phrase—when the current regime will no longer exist. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to all interested readers, this volume does not try to predict how and when the Castro regime will end, but instead considers the possible consequences of change...read more

Presents a memoir of the former Brazilian president, who discusses the complex history of his country, the political, social, and economic obstacles he encountered in his efforts to modernize it, and his successes in bringing about stability and prosperity.

Product Description: For decades F. H. Cardoso has been among the most influential of Latin American scholars, his writings on globalization, dependency, and politics having reached a world-wide audience.This book, the third by Cardoso to appear in English, is the first to incorporate essays written during his tenure as president of Brazil...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the end of World War II, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization and self-sustaining economic growth. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of political and economic dependence for a new kind of dependency on the international capitalism of multinational corporations...read more