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Three UNU-WIDER books are 'Top 10 OSO Titles in Economics'

In a recent listing by Oxford University Press of the top ten most accessed works on Oxford Scholarship Online, UNU-WIDER books held three places, including the top spot as the most popular title in their Economics collection. These seminal texts have been at the forefront of topics in development economics and cover a broad range of knowledge for practitioners working on topics like improving industrial policy, addressing poverty, and reforming the international monetary system.

And the best news, they are available Open Access, free for everyone to download. The books that made the top ten are:

• #1 ‘Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging Asia’ by Carol Newman, John Rand, Abebe Shimeles, Måns Söderbom, Finn Tarp, and John Page
• #4 ‘Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System’ by José Antonio Ocampo
• #9 ‘Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa’ by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp