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World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets

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World Development Report 2002 is a good source for understanding of the issues that need to be understand for third world development. It focuses on firms, government and society. It deals with specific facotros with each of these. With firms, it deals with farmers, financial systems and governance of firms. WIth government it deals with political institutions and governance, the judicial system, competition and regulation of infrastructure. WIth society, it deals with norms and net works as well as the media.

Good source to better understand development in the third world.

This book, written from within the mindset of a world bank supporter, is useful for those researching the current world economic system of corporate ascendance, and its validity. This book, by and about the world bank and its programs, is useful for students of revolution. This is an excellent book to read to help understand and change the system that continues to concentrate the wealth and resources of the world into the hands of a tiny but growing minority of uber-rich. The philosophy and info in this well-written resource book helps demonstrate why there is direct proportionality of the concentration of wealth into the hands of a minority, and the growing number of poor in the USA and other places. If the system worked, it should be the exact the reverse, after 50 years of work. This book is good to compare and contrast with "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins.