After the 2008–9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains dysfunctional.Now, the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic offers us a second chance. Kevin Gallagher and Richard Kozul-Wright argue that we must grasp it by implementing sweeping reforms to how we govern global money, finance,...

This book shows how regional cooperation and integration have increased massively in scale and scope in recent years, as developing countries seek new ways to shield themselves from economic turbulence and to kick-start their economies in the face of stagnant global demand. The trend is partly a defense mechanism against the limitations of the international financial system, but also reflects a wider search for new and different growth paths more appropriate with developing countries’ incr...

In the mid-1980s the international development community helped launch what was to quickly become one of the most popular poverty reduction and local economic development policies of all time. Microcredit, the system of disbursing tiny micro-loans to the poor to help them to establish their own income-generating activities, was initially highly praised and some were even led to believe that it would end poverty as we know it. But in recent years the microcredit model has been subject to gr...

Southern-Led Development Finance examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have emerged in recent years, as countries from the Global South seek to transform their economies and to shield themselves from global economic turbulence.Even before the Covid-19 crisis, it was clear to many that the global economy needed a reset and a massive increase in public investment. In the last decade southern-owned development banks, infr...

Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state. It has been central to competitiveness, catching up, and structural change in both advanced and developing countries. It has also been one of the most contested perspectives, reflecting ideologically inflected debates and shifts in prevailing ideas. There has lately been a renewed interest in industrial policy in academic circles and international policy dialogu...

A billionaire contemporary romance stand alone from New York Times bestselling author K.A. Linde…I'd dated his brother.He didn’t remember and I wish I could forget.I may have sworn off the Wright family a long time ago. But when I returned home, Jensen Wright crashed into my life with the confidence of a billionaire CEO and the sex appeal of a god. Even I couldn’t resist our charged chemistry, or the way he fit into my life like a missing p...

Enjoy this steamy fireman series by USA Today Bestselling small-town romance author Erin Wright…A Wounded HeroAs a firefighter, Jaxson Anderson is well acquainted with danger. He’s charged into burning buildings to rescue men and women, young and old. He’s scaled ladders that towered over blistering infernos, and defied blazes that terrified lesser men.Fire? He understands. Women? Not so much. Now there’s some real...

Talia’s life is perfect—until it isn’t. One moment her future is planned, and she’s set to marry the handsome heir of the Northwood pack… and the next those plans are shattered and dashed to the wind, just like her dreams.When Talia’s father disobeys a direct order to retreat on a pack mission and goes rogue, countless lives are needlessly lost. With the pack baying for blood, the Alpha can no longer forgive his old friend’s trespasses and executes him—right in fro...

Nimona Weston has a debt to pay.Her father’s dealings with the dark society known as the Trust cost Nim her freedom. There’s one way out of the contract on her life and that’s to bide her time and pay the tithes. But when the Trust assigns Nim to a task in the king’s own castle, her freedom is not the only thing she’ll risk.Warrick Spenser has a secret.As king’s seneschal, he should be the last soul in Inara to risk association with...

A feisty stand alone friends with benefits romance from New York Times bestselling author K.A. Linde. With new characters set in the bestselling world of the Wrights, this is a perfect jumping on point for new readers!I shouldn’t have hooked up with my one night stand... again.To be fair, I was having the worst day of my life. I was sure that nothing else could go wrong.Then in walks Jordan Wright.We have a heated history, and I’ve ...

A one-night stand prequel romance to New York Times bestselling author K.A. Linde’s Wright with Benefits…I can’t tear my eyes away from the stranger.He’s too hot for this small town. Too polished for this seedy bar. And a hundred percent my type. Tall, dark, and handsome in a suit with brooding eyes that say he’d lay waste to my body. And I’d let him.Our connection is immediate. The desire is blatant. I’ve never felt anything like ...

Enjoy this steamy cowboy series by USA Today Bestselling small-town romance author Erin Wright…He’s a fighter, not a lover…Two years ago, cowboy Wyatt Miller lost his family to a drunk driver. His heart broken, he slowly put the pieces of his shattered life back together. Running his thousand-acre ranch from dawn till dusk helps him forget about his broken heart.When he stops a drunk from getting behind the wheel one night,...