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Reading Summaries

GLOBAL POVERTY and INEQUALITY (exp 91f)
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:00-5:30pm

READING SUMMARIES

Carolyn Nordstrum - Global Outlaws

David Ferranti and Anthony Ody - Beyond Microfinance: Getting Capital to Small and Medium Enterprises to Fuel Faster Development

Ed. David Held and Kaya - Global Inequalities

Gwyn Prins & Steve Rayner - Time to Ditch Kyoto

Hernando de Soto - Dead Capital and The Poor

J. Gregory Dees - The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship

Jonathan Morduch - The Microfinance Promise

Julie Schaffner - Development Economics

Karen Ballentine and Jake Sherman - The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Greivence

Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt - Fractured Cities

Lael Brainerd and Derek Chollet - Too Poor for Peace?

Marcy Murningham - Corporations and Social Responsibility: A Historical Perspective

Marcy Murningham - Scrubbing the Sky: Climate Change and the Productive Center

Michael Wara - Is the Global Carbon Market Working?

Paul Collier - The Bottom Billion

Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler - AID Policy and Growth in Post Conflict Societies

Paul Farmer - Pathologies of Power

Raymond Baker - Capatalism's Achilles Heal

Robert R. Reich - Supercapitalism

William Easterly - The White Mans Burden

William Julius Wilson - A New Agenda for America's Ghetto Poor

EFA Global Monitoring Report

World Bank Draft Overview

 

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