A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world’s great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history—a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present. Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.

This introduction to all aspects of international economics, business and finance is the clearest guide available to the economics of the world we live in. Written in a highly engaging style, packed full of up to the minute, real world case studies and pitched at introductory level, the book does an expert job of drawing students in and will leave them equipped with a comprehensive toolkit and methods and essential facts. .

One of the key questions in food policy debates in the last decades has been the role of cash cropping for achieving food security in low income countries. We revisit this question in the context of smallholder coffee production in Ethiopia. Using unique data collected by the authors on about 1,600 coffee farmers in the country, we find that coffee income improves food security, even after controlling for total income and other factors and after addressing the endogeneity of coffee income. Further analysis suggests that the pathway for achieving this improved food security is linked to being better able to smooth consumption across agricultural seasons. In contrast with food crops, coffee sales take place almost throughout the whole year, providing farmers with cash income also during the lean season.

From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Growth in Ethiopia has surpassed that of every other sub-Saharan country over the past decade and is forecast by the International Monetary Fund to exceed 8 percent over the next two years. The government has set its eyes on transforming the country into a middle-income country by 2025, and into a leading manufacturing hub in Africa. The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy studies this country's unique model of development, where the state plays a central role, and where a successful industrialization drive has challenged the long-held erroneous assumption that industrial policy will never work in poor African countries. While much of the volume is focused on post-1991 economic development policy and strategy, the analysis is set against the background of the long history of Ethiopia, and more specifically on the Imperial period that ended in 1974, the socialist development experiment of the Derg regime between 1974 and 1991, and the policies and strategies of the current EPRDF government that assumed power in 1991. Including a range of contributions from both academic and professional standpoints, this volume is a key reference work on the economy of Ethiopia.

The First International Conference on Science, Technology and Multicultural Education (ICOCIT-MUDA), initiated by Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah (UNIMUDA) Sorong. It was July 25th-26th, 2019, in Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia. Currently, the Rector of UNIMUDA Sorong is Rustamadji, Ph.D; he is the first rector of the university. He encouraged the Institute of Research, and Community Service to run the academic event. Then, the committee usefully run The First ICOCIT-MUDA as the premier event since the university convert from college to university. The First International Conference ICOCIT-MUDA was the collaboration with Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Universitas Prof. Dr. Moestopo (Beragama) and Forum Dosen Indonesia, West Papua. The conference was supported by generosity of Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan RI attend as Keynote Speaker, Prof. Dr. Bahrullah Akbar. Prof. Dr. Joko Harun (Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Indonesia) presents a paper as a Keynote Speaker. Moreover, he leads the scientific committee during the paper publication preparation. Dr. Andrianysah (Vice Rector Universitas Prof. Dr. Moestopo (Beragama), also presented a paper on plenary session). The collaboration was supported by Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia (Prof. Dr Dato Yahaya Ibrahim), and Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Prof. Dr. Gamal Abdul Nasir). Both universities send their academician to present paper as keynote speakers. Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (STKIP) Muhammadiyah Sorong was established on August 19, 2004. Then, July 5, 2018 converted to Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah Sorong. The Rector explained that the short name is UNIMUDA where the civitas academia is always young and the only one that they have spirit as young people.