Right to Tell - The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development

This book is based on the premise that an independent press is essential to sound and equitable economic development, helping to give a voice to the poor and disenfranchised.

Contributors, including Robert J. Shiller author of Irrational Exuberance, and Nobel Prize winner and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, explore the role of the media as a watchdog of government and the corporate sector, and the policies that prevent the media from exercising that role. This book assesses the media's function as transmitters of new ideas and information, as well as evaluates the damaging effects that an unethical or irresponsible press can cause to a society.

Several of the book's contributors describe the role of the media and the challenges they face in specific countries including Bangladesh, Egypt, the former Soviet Union, Thailand, and Zimbabwe.

Available in: Arabic, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Polish and English.