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Africa: The Last Frontier
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Is Africa’s emergence for real?
Do you sometimes wish you had bought property in Mumbai, Shanghai, or Rio ten years ago? You would have more than tripled your money. Well, ten ...
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Asymmetries and Terrorism
Todd Sandler
in Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why Are Asymmetries Important for Terrorism?
At 11:18 a.m. on October 12, 2000, a small fiberglass boat sped toward the port side of the USS Cole, moored for a routine fuel stop at ...
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Causes of Terrorism
Todd Sandler
in Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What Are the Main Causes of Terrorism?
The four waves of terrorism, presented in chapter 1, demonstrate some general causes of terrorism: anarchy, nationalism, leftist ideology, ...
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Concluding Thoughts
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Through questions and answers, this book has brought to you the issues actually faced by those working on economic development. Implicit across those answers were a number of broad ...
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Economic Consequences of Terrorism
Todd Sandler
in Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why Do Some Terrorist Groups Try to Create Economic Losses?
During the summers of 1985, 1986, and 1987, the Spanish Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) carried out ...
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Economic Policy: The Basics You’ve Got to Get Right
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Why do governments struggle to prop up the world’s economy?
“Out of ammo,” “helicopter money,” “monetary impotence,” “infrastructure push,” “savings glut.” These are the kind of ...
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Effectiveness of Counterterrorism
Todd Sandler
in Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What Are the Primary Tools of Counterterrorism?
Counterterrorism consists of actions by a government to inhibit terrorist attacks, to lessen their consequences, and to speed ...
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The Future of Terrorism
Todd Sandler
in Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How Are Forecasts about Terrorism Made?
As long as there are grievances, there will be conflict and, thus, terrorism. Since the start of recorded history, terrorism has played a ...
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Governments: One Day, They Will Work for You
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Why do obvious reforms never happen?
Case One. An African country spends 4 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) every year paying for the gasoline consumed by its relatively ...
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Inclusion: Those Who Are Always Left Behind
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Will we ever reach gender parity?
If it could rid itself of gender discrimination, the average developing country would see its economy grow at least 2 percentage points faster ...
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Overview: What Is Economic Development and What Does This Book Say about It?
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
At its most basic level, economic development is the process through which a community creates material wealth and uses it to improve the well-being of its members. This calls for many ...
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A Primer on Terrorism
Todd Sandler
in Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What Is Terrorism?
Terrorism is the premeditated use or threat to use violence by individuals or subnational groups against noncombatants to obtain a political objective through ...
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Role of Terrorist Groups
Todd Sandler
in Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What Is a Terrorist Group?
The main “player” or participant in terrorist attacks is the terrorist group; hence, it is essential that such a group be defined. A terrorist group is a ...
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Sectors: What Ministers Will Worry about—or Should
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Can governments create industries?
It is an old debate. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, from Asia to Latin America, an idea caught fire among development economists: governments ...
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Social Policy: Old War, New Weapons
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Why did Piketty’s work pique our sudden interest in inequality?
The publication in 2014 of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century brought inequality to the center of ...
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