Research Catalog

Title

Changing perceptions and altered reality : emerging economies in the 1990s / Shahid Javed Burki.

Author

Burki, Shahid Javed.

Publication

Washington, DC : World Bank, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

vi, 198 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Developing countries > Economic policy
• Financial crises > Developing countries
• Developing countries > Economic conditions
• Poverty > Developing countries
• Economic development

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Changing Perceptions and Altered Reality -- Ch. 2. Development Challenges: Reaching a Better Understanding -- Ch. 3. Toward Open Regionalism in LAC -- Ch. 4. Global Economic Crisis and Poverty -- Ch. 5. Protecting the Poor during Periods of Economic Crises -- Ch. 6. Crime and Poverty -- Ch. 7. Poverty Returns to Pakistan -- Ch. 8. Globalization: Institutional and Organizational Imperatives for the Developing World -- Ch. 9. Latin American Economic Crises and Prospects -- Ch. 10. New Initiatives to Tackle International Economic Turmoil: A Comment -- Ch. 11. Latin American Economies and the Global Economic Turmoil -- Ch. 12. Volatility, Contagion, and Possible Dollarization -- Ch. 13. The Language of Economic Discourse -- Ch. 14. From Globalization to Localization -- Ch. 15. Pakistan in Crisis: A Diagnosis of Its Causes and an Approach for Resolving It -- Ch. 16. A Fate Foretold: The World Bank and the Mexican Crisis --
• Ch. 17. The Relevance of the Chinese Model for Bringing Cuba into the International Economic System -- Ch. 18. Integrating Small States in a Fast-Changing Global Economy.

ISBN

0821345923

LCCN

99047581

OCLC

ocm42393605

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries