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• Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2010), ed. by S. M. Ravi Kanbur and Michael Spence (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• The Age of Perplexity: Rethinking the World We Knew (Madrid: BBVA, c2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Jannis Kallinikos, Robin Mansell, Jan-Werner Müller, José Luis Pardo, Diana Marie Owen, Evgeny Morozov, Simon Springer, Marysia Zalewski, John Andrews, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Ian Storey, Miguel Angel Centeno, Andrés Lajous, Douglas R. Nelson, Zia Qureshi, Adam Saunders, Andrew Gamble, Richard J. White, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Adriana Conconi, and Mariana Viollaz (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2017), by Ingrid Robeyns (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• The Diseconomics of Growth (1972), by H. V. Hodson (HTML at Athelstane)
• Keystone Sector Identification: A Graph Theory-Social Network Analysis Approach (c2000), by Maureen Kilkenny and Laura Nalbarte (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Navigating Culture: A Road Map to Culture and Development (2000), by Pekka Seppälä and Arja Vainio-Mattila (PDF in Finland)
• Free-World Growth and Progress (reprinted from the Dept. of State Bulletin; Dept. of State publication 7302 (Economic cooperation series #61); 1961), by George W. Ball (multiple formats at Google)
• Liberalization in the Process of Economic Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Lawrence B. Krause and Kim Kihwan (HTML at UC Press)
• Underdeveloped Lands: "Revolution of Rising Expectations" (Headline Series #119; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1956), by Forrest D. Murden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), by Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, Sarah Chung, Juan Jimenez, Alexander Simoes, and Muhammed A. Yildirim (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Abundance to Scarcity: Implications for the American Tradition (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Kenneth E. Boulding, Michael G. Kammen, and Seymour Martin Lipset (PDF at Ohio State)
• Financial Stability and Growth in Emerging Economies: The Role of the Financial Sector (2003), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Mark Teunissen (PDF with commentary at fondad.org)
• Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Matt Bakker
  • multiple formats at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Breaking Barriers: The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development - A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the World (2006), by Nah Soo Hoe (PDF at apdip.net)
• Electricity in Economic Growth (1986), by National Research Council Commission on Electricity in Economic Growth (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development: Opening a Dialogue, by William F. Ryan (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Development Cooperation in a Fractured Global Order: An Arduous Transition, by Francisco R. Sagasti and Gonzalo Alcade (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Fueling Development: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Manuale di Economia Politica; con una Introduzione alla Scienza Sociale (in Italian; Milan: Societa Editrice Libraria, 1919), by Vilfredo Pareto (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa (Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press, c2011), by Calestous Juma (PDF with commentary at belfercenter.org)

• Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), ed. by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp, contrib. by World Institute for Development Economics Research (PDF with commentary at UNU Press and OUP)

• Development Administration: An Annotated Bibliography (Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1963), by Allan A. Spitz and Edward W. Weidner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (2008), ed. by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at Yale)
• Brazil: Which Way Half a Continent? (Fact Sheet #3; c1962), by Foreign Policy Association-World Affairs Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rising China: Global Challenges and Opportunities (c2011), ed. by Jane Golley and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development (c2010), ed. by Ross Garnaut, Jane Golley, and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• The Chinese Economic Transformation: Views from Young Economists (Acton, ACT: Australian National University, c2019), ed. by Ligang Song, Yixiao Zhou, and Luke W. L. Hurst (multiple formats at ANU Press)

• Participatory Development Communication: A West African Agenda (1996), ed. by Guy Bessette and C. V. Rajasunderam (HTML and PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), ed. by Olivier Blanchard, David Romer, Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Intra-Household Resource Allocation: Issues and Methods for Development Policy and Planning (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1990), ed. by Beatrice Lorge Rogers and Nina P. Schlossman (HTML at UNU)

• The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development (in multiple languages; c2008), by Commission on Growth and Development (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press; Ottawa et al.: International Development Research Centre, c2013), ed. by Matthew L. Smith and Katherine M. A. Reilly (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Leadership and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2010), ed. by David W. Brady and Michael Spence (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Post-Crisis Growth in Developing Countries: A Special Report of the Commission on Growth and Development on the Implications of the 2008 Financial Crisis (in English and Arabic; c2010), by Commission on Growth and Development (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)

• Education and the New Economy: A Policy Planning Exercise, by Cathleen Stasz, James Chiesa, and William Schwabe (PDF at rand.org)

• Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), ed. by Nagla Rizk and Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at aucegypt.edu)

• Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change (Washington: Center for Global Development, c2013), by Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian (PDF at cgdev.org)
• The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by Paolo Galizzi and Alena Herklotz (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development (London: Ubiquity Press, c2015), ed. by J. K. Waage and Christopher Yap (multiple formats at Ubiquity Press)
• The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: Universe Books, 1972), by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens (multiple formats with commentary at donellameadows.org)
• Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future (Washington: World Bank, 2015), by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, and Tom Kerr (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (c2009), by Lester R. Brown (HTML and PDF with commentary at earth-policy.org)
• Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (2008), by Lester R. Brown (HTML and PDF with commentary at earth-policy.org)
• Industrial Metabolism: Restructuring for Sustainable Development, ed. by Robert U. Ayres and Udo E. Simonis (illustrated HTML at UNU)
• Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Peter Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The North, the South, and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1995), ed. by V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn (HTML at UNU)

• Governing Failure: Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, c2014), by Jacqueline Best (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• Global Models, World Futures, and Public Policy: A Critique (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Matt Bakker
  • multiple formats at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

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