Product Description: The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global economy, and the resources to help poorer countries become more competitive and prosperous...read more

Product Description: The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. Whether these succeed in having a transformative impact depends not just on their individual brilliance but on whether they can be brought to a scale where they reach millions of poor people...read more

Product Description: The work provides a clear and yet a thought provoking understanding of the dynamics and challenges of Central Asia and the Caucasus. It aims to raise awareness of the important opportunities and risks which the region faces and represents...read more

'Explores a wide range of challenges facing the international community in reforming international institutions and global governance groups. Argues for reform of global governance groups, especially reconstituting the G8, and individual institutional reforms in the IMF, World Bank, and the United Nations and in global health and environmental governance'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Now available in paperback, his encyclopedic volume quantifies and describes the detail of local fiscal practices in developing countries and the most common data problems that arise in cross-national analysis. Proven to be an important resource for the study of urban finance, it remains one of the most comprehensive reviews of municipal financing in developing countries to date...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)