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Rich People Poor Countries - The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms
Caroline Freund
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Paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFG; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the rest of the population, especially the very poor. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small-scale production and agricultural past and ... Read more
Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the rest of the population, especially the very poor. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small-scale production and agricultural past and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Institute for International Economics,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780881327038
SKU
V9780881327038
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About Caroline Freund
Caroline Freund, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since May 2013, was chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank (2011-13). Prior to that she was lead economist and senior economist in the research department of the World Bank. She was also senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and economist at ... Read more
Reviews for Rich People Poor Countries - The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms
The mass media are always happy to feed the public's appetite for details about how the rich and famous live. Much rarer is the kind of careful analysis of the sources and consequences of great wealth that Freund offers in this book. Foreign Affairs A very useful sourcebook for anyone working on the changing face of global and national inequality. ... Read more