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Students are expected to research and select a book that deals with one of the “Development” issues covered in class. This assignment is an individual submission. The selected book must NOT be a textbook.
A full book review may concern only one book. Its length is about 1500-2000 words. It should
give readers an engaging, informative, and critical discussion of the work. The review should
follow the Guidelines below.
The review should consider (you use as your outline):
The intended audience for the book and who would find it useful
The background of the author(s)
The main ideas and major objectives of the book and how effectively these are
accomplished
The context or impetus for the book – – political controversy, implications of the book for
research, policy, practice, or theory
A comparison with other works on this subject
Constructive comments about the strength and weaknesses of the book
The front page of your review should include:
Your first and last name
Your student id
Author(s) or editor(s) first and last name(s) (please indicate if it is an edited book)
Title of book
Year of publication
Place of publication
Publisher
Number of pages
Price (please indicate paperback or hard cover) if available
ISBN
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East Asian Development Books
Title: Economic Development in East Asia
Author Name: E. Stuart Kirby
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
ISBN Number: 9780415847247
Number of Pages: 256
Title: Economic Development of Emerging East Asia: Catching up of Taiwan and South Korea
Author Name: Frank S.T. Hsiao
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN Number: 9781783086870
Number of Pages: 318
Title: The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy
Author Name: The World Bank Group
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN Number: 9780195209938
Number of Pages: 408
Title: East Asian Visions: Perspectives on Economic Development
Author Name: Indermit Singh Gill
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN Number: 0821367455
Number of Pages: 368
Human Capital
Title: Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia
Author Name: Andrew Mason
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN Number: 9780804743228
Number of Pages: 503
Title: Accelerating Catch-up: Tertiary Education for Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author Name: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0821377383
Number of Pages: 150
Title: How Universities Promote Economic Growth
Author Name: Shahid Yusuf , Kaoru Nabeshima
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0-8213-6751-3
Number of Pages: 316
Title: Postindustrial East Asian Cities : Innovation for Growth
Author Name: Shahid Yusuf , Kaoru Nabeshima
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0-8213-5622-7
Number of Pages: 372
Title: China’s Development Priorities
Author Name: Shahid Yusuf , Kaoru Nabeshima
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0-8213-6509-0
Number of Pages: 172
Title: Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia
Author Name: Shahid Yusuf , M. Anjum Altaf , Kaoru Nabeshima
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0821356180
Number of Pages: 496
Title: Innovative East Asia Innovative East Asia Book Cover: The Future of Growth
Author Name: Shahid Yusuf
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0821353561
Number of Pages: 460
Title: Can East Asia Compete? Innovation for Global Markets
Author Name: Simon J. Evenett , Shahid Yusuf
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0-8213-4998-4
Number of Pages: 228
Books on Education and Econ Dev
Title: Redesigning America for the 21st century: Solving our Healthcare, Income, Education
Problems
Author: David Paul
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN Number: 9798503391602
Number of Pages: 160
Title: The Indispensable University: Higher Education and Economic Development
Author: Eugene P. Trani
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN Number: 304
Number of Pages: 1607090791
Title: Toward a Better Future: Education and Training for Economic Development in Singapore since
1965
Author: Fredricksen Birger
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN Number: 0821373757
Number of Pages: 224
Title: Education and Development (Policy Imperatives for Jamaica and Caribbean)
Author: Canute S. Thompson
Publisher: University of the West Indie Press
ISBN Number: 9766407770
Number of Pages: 199
Title: Smart Money: Education and Economic Development
Author Name: William Schweke
Publisher: Economic Policy Institute
ISBN Number: 1932066101
Number of Pages: 74
Title: Linking Higher Education and Economic Development
Author Name: Pundy Pillay
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN Number: 1920355448
Number of Pages: 118
Title: Toward a Better Future: Education and Training for Economic Development in Singapore
since 1965
Author Name: Fredriksen Birger, Sing Kong Lee, Chor Boon Goh
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN Number: 978-0821373750
Number of Pages: 224
Books on Poverty and Dev
Title: The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill
and So Little Good
Author Name: William Easterly
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN Number: 978-0143038825
Number of Pages: 448
Title: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Author Name: Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN Number: 978-0143036586
Number of Pages: 464
Title: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About
It
Author Name: Paul Collier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN Number: 978-0195373387
Number of Pages: 224
Title: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
Author Name: C.K. Prahalad
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
ISBN Number: 978-0131467507
Number of Pages: 401
Title: Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Author Name: Paul Polak
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN Number: 978-1605092768
Number of Pages: 248
Title: Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Author Name: Dambisa Moyo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN Number: 9780374532123
Number of Pages: 209
Title: Development As Freedom
Author Name: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN Number: 978-0385720274
Number of Pages: 384
Title: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Author Name: Abhiijit V. Banerjee
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN Number: 1610390938
Number of Pages: 320
What’s Economic Development
Title: The Capability Approach
Author: David Alexander Clark
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN Number: 978-1137352293
Number of Pages: 453
Title: Economic Development is Not for Amateurs
Author: Jay Garner
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN Number: 9798666846582
Number of Pages: 94
Title: The Economist’s View of The World
Author: Steven E. Rhoades
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN Number: 1108845940
Number of Pages: 334
Title: Encountering Development
Author: Arturo Escobar
Publisher: Princeton University
ISBN Number: 0691150451
Number of Pages: 344
Title: Understanding Development
Author: John Rapley
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN Number: 9781588265388
Number of Pages: 265
Comparing Economies
Title: The American Millenial Attraction to Socialism: Comparing the Economies of Chinese
Communism, Crony Corporate Capitalism
Author: Laurie Thomas Vass
Publisher: Gabby Press
ISBN Number: 1513660853
Number of Pages: 126
Title: Asia’s Giants: Comparing China and India
Author: Huang Jinxin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian
ISBN Number: 1403971102
Number of Pages: 262
Title: Economies in Transition: Comparing Asia and Europe
Author: Wing Thye Woo
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN Number: 0262731207
Number of Pages: 432
Classical Theory of Development
Title: The Theory of Economic Development
Author: Joseph A. Schumpeter
Publisher: Routledge Press
ISBN Number: 0367705265
Number of Pages: 251
Title: History of Economic Theory
Author: T.R. Malthus
Publisher: Coventry House Publishing
ISBN Number: 0615817890
Number of Pages: 196
Title: Contending Economic Theories
Author: Richard D. Wolf
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN Number: 0262517833
Number of Pages: 424
Title: Axiomatic Theory of Economics
Author: Victor Aguilar
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN Number: 1560722967
Number of Pages: 279
Development Policymaking
Title: The Myth of the Free Market: The Role of State in a Capitalist Economy
Author: Mark A. Martinez
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN Number: 1565492676
Number of Pages: 317
Title: Governing the Market: The Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
Author: Robert Wade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN Number: 0691117292
Number of Pages: 496
Title: Innovating Developmental Strategies in Africa: The Role of International, Regional, and
National Actors
Author: Landry Signe
Publisher: Cambridge University
ISBN Number: 1316625621
Number of Pages: 223
Title: Economic Policy- Making by Local Authorities in Britain and West Germany
Author: Nevil Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN Number: 0415788072
Number of Pages:182
International Trade
Title: International Trade: What Everybody Needs to Know
Author: Anne O. Krueger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN Number: 0190900458
Number of Pages: 368
Title: An Introduction to International Economics: New Perspectives on the World Economy
Author: Kenneth A. Reinert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN Number: 1108455166
Number of Pages: 276
Title: Regional Integration
Author: Helmut Asche
Publisher: Springer
ISBN Number: 3030753654
Number of Pages: 317
BOP, Debts, Crises, Stabilization
Title: The Asian Financial Crisis 1995-98 Birth of the Age of Debt
Author: Russell Napier
Publisher: Harriman House
ISBN Number: 0857199145
Number of Pages: 360
Title: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Author: Danny Schechter
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN Number: 1616405422
Number of Pages: 686
Title: Trade, Development and Foreign Debt
Author: Michael Hudson
Publisher: ISLET
ISBN Number: 978-3980846691
Number of Pages: 440
Title: The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of
Nations
Author: Sebastian Mallaby
Publisher: Penguin Press
ISBN Number: 1594200238
Number of Pages: 480
Title: The Tumultuous Times: Banking in an Era of Crises
Author: Masaaki Shirikawa
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN Number: 0300258976
Number of Pages: 536
Foreign Aid and Investment
Title: China’s Foreign Aid and Investment Diplomacy
Author: John F. Cooper
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian
ISBN Number: 1137551836
Number of Pages: 331
Title: Foreign Investment Law including Investor-State Arbitrations
Author: Ralph Folsom
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN Number: 1684671469
Number of Pages: 552
Title: Comparing Global Influence: China’s and U.S. Diplomacy, Foreign Aid
Author: Congressional Research Service
Publisher: Red and Black Publisher
ISBN Number: 161001118X
Number of Pages: 233
Title: Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?
Author: T. Moran
Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economics
ISBN Number: 978-0881323818
Number of Pages: 440
Finance and Fiscal Policy
Title: Monetary and Fiscal Policy through a DSGE Lens
Author: Harold L. Cole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN Number: 0190076046
Number of Pages: 280
Title: Using Fiscal Policy and Public Financial Management to Promote Gender Equality
Author: Janet G. Stotsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN Number: 032175419
Number of Pages: 228
Title: Ethics in Fiscal Administration
Author: Angela Funai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN Number: 1138630713
Number of Pages: 182
Title: Singapore’s Fiscal Strategies for Growth
Author: Lee Kok Fatt
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
ISBN Number: 9813228008
Number of Pages: 212
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