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Why nations fail : the origins of power, prosperity and poverty
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Ro…
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- 1st. ed.
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- 9780307719218
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- 529 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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- 330 Ace w
On Competition
For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," as well as new work on health ca…
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- Updated and expanded Ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781422126967
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- xxxi, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 382.104 2 Por o
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