Human progress and the rising South / edited by Khalid Malik, Maurice Kugler.

Includes bibliographical references.

The South in the World Economy: Past, Present and Future / Deepak Nayyar -- The Challenge of the South / Khalil Hamdani -- Capabilities and Human Development: Beyond the Individual-- the Critical Role of Social Institutions and Social Competencies / Frances Stewart -- Demography and Human Development: Education and Population Projections / Wolfgang Lutz, Samir KC -- Development-Oriented Policies and Alternative Human Development Paths: Aggressive but Reasonable Interventions / Pardee Center for International Futures -- Challenges and Opportunities: Civil Society in a Globalizing World / Patrick Heller -- Financial Architectures and Development: Resilience, Policy Space and Human Development in the Global South / Ilene Grabel -- The Rise of the Global South: Implications for the Provisioning of Global Public Goods / Inge Kaul -- Transforming Global Governance for the Twenty-First Century / Ngaire Woods, with Alexander Betts, Jochen Prantl and Devi Sridhar.

"The twenty-first century is witnessing a profound shift in global dynamics of unprecedented speed and scale, driven by the fast-rising powers of the developing world. What are these countries doing right? What are their biggest challenges in the years ahead? How will this dramatic reshaping of world politics and economics affect the wealthy industrial North, as well as the poorest nations now clustered at the bottom of the Human Development Index? UNDP's widely praised 2013 Human Development Report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World, addresses these questions by analysing more than forty countries in the developing world that have posted unusually rapid human development gains in recent decades, drawing heavily on background research commissioned from eminent economists, demographers and social scientists. This companion volume to the 2013 Human Development Report presents nine of those research papers."--Publisher website.

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