The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as the best non-fiction book so far this year by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times.

The first volume of a comparative study of trade shocks covering 23 countries. This volume examines Africa, and challenges the common generalizations. Trade shocks are shown to lead to high savings rates, though policy errors often mean windfalls actually lead to a reduction in output.

Endorsed by CIMA, these cards provide coverage of several major points of the CIMA syllabus. They provide exam tips and hints; a summary of the key topics of the syllabus; visual aids to consolidate learning; and diagrams and tables to help reinforce key concepts and aid memory retention and recall.

Investigates the violence and poverty in the countries at the bottom of the world economy that are home to a billion people. This title argues that the spread of elections and peace settlements in the world's most volatile countries may lead eventually to a brave new democratic world.

This book demonstrates that there is sufficient evidence on the Nigerian economy and society to inform many policy issues, and reveals the current problems and policy options that a democratic Nigeria will need to debate and resolve. It presents an agenda of reform as unfinished business.

Research into the causes of conflict and civil war finds that developing countries' economic dependence on natural resources and commodities is associated with the risk of conflict. This book presents reports and case studies that explore what the international community can do to reduce this risk.

Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady economic progress, with new construction projects, shops, and ubiquitous cell phones. In this book, he tracks a decade of comparably hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 19602000 is by far the most ambitious and comprehensive assessment of Africas post-independence economic performance to date. Volume 1 examines the impact of resource wealth and geographical remoteness on Africas growth and develops a new dataset of governance regimes.

Builds upon the World Bank's prior research on conflict and violence. The two volumes build upon on the work of Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, whose model of civil war onset has sparked much discussion on the relationship between conflict and development in what came to be known as the greed versus grievance debate.

An examination of the key themes in Africa's recent fiscal reforms and trade liberalization and her prospects for improving trade and development. Differing reform strategies are reformed and assessed. The impact of trade liberalization and the linking of aid and trade by donor countries are assessed.

Incorporating legislative and syllabus changes, this edition maintains the popular loose-leaf format and contains: practice questions throughout; revision section; topic summaries; recommended reading articles from a range of journals; and pilot paper.

This book explores the idea that the Mediterranean theatre of World War II was the first truly modern war - a highly mobile conflict in which logistics was a critical and often deciding factor.

The first volume of a comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-2000.

Considers the variables identified in the Collier-Hoeffler model and applies them to a set of case studies from a range of African countries. This volume traces the process of conflict escalation in order to draw conclusions as to why civil war is likely to occur. It also seeks to advance theoretical and empirical knowledge of civil war.

Presents the development of best practice guidelines for enterprise-wide internal control procedures to identify and manage risk. This title shows how organizations and their management accountants develop effective internal control systems to identify and manage risk. It also shows how organizations and their management accountants construe risk.

The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. For them, the peaceful democracy taken for granted in the West seems an impossible pipe-dream. But solutions do exist - it is up to us to achieve them.

Incorporating legislative and syllabus changes, this work maintains the popular loose-leaf format and contains: practice questions; revision section; topic summaries; recommended reading articles from a range of journals; and pilot paper.