Product Description: Effective pricing management must consider how customers develop value perceptions. Such an approach, which we label proactive pricing, is more difficult than adding a profit margin to cost estimates. Nevertheless, the ability to make effective pricing decisions is substantially enhanced by taking this approach...read more

Why is Africa still poor? What happens to the billions of aid dollars given yearly? Why do trade rules that fail African countries also cost us at the checkout line? Why doesnÕt Africa matter? In this engaging, jargon-free, reader-friendly guide, longtime aid worker and diplomat Giles Bolton offers his radical analysis of the problems Africa faces, drawing on years of experience on the ground. Dividing the book into five sectionsÑpoverty, aid, trade, globalization, and changeÑhe analyzes the issues, breaking them down with helpful features like sidebars and bullet points and humanizing them with stories about real people in Africa and anecdotes from his own years in the field. In a final section, he outlines what we as individuals can do to make a difference.

Product Description: The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s. These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political problems that divided the continent...read more

Product Description: Over the past few decades poverty has emerged as a global problem and a global agenda item in need of action. For that reason, the United Nations made its eradication the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). The MDG's plan is for extreme poverty to be eliminated by 2015...read more

Product Description: This study of inequality in Africa, first published in 1988, not only rejected the orthodox approach of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which neglected income distribution and advocated greater external economic reliance, but also the statist Lagos Plan of Action, which supported comprehensive planning, large capital-intensive state firms, and increased government intervention in peasant prices...read more

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