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Making Poor Nations Rich

by Benjamin Powell

Business

2007

Why do some nations become rich while others remain poor? Using case studies from Asia and Africa to Latin America and Europe, this text argues for examining the critical role entrepreneurs and the institutional environment of private property rights and economic freedom play in economic development.

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