Economic Development category: 2617 books

Cover of Economic Growth and Development
by Hendrik Van den Berg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016

This textbook covers the full range of topics and issues normally included in a course on economic growth and development. Both mainstream economic perspectives as well as the multi-paradigmatic, inter-disciplinary, and dynamic-evolutionary perspectives from heterodox economics are detailed. Economic...
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Economic Development of Taiwan

Early Experiences and the Pacific Trade Triangle

by Frank S T Hsiao, Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

Taiwan's economic growth since the 1970s has roots in its pre-war development and post-war formation of the Pacific trade triangle. By highlighting the historical perspective of the Japanese linkages and the geographic vantage point of Taiwan–Japan–USA trade triangle, Economic Development of Taiwan...
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Singapore's Economic Development

Retrospection and Reflections

by Linda Y C Lim
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a variety of policies put into place over the past 50 years since its independence. Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections provides a retrospective analysis of independent...
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Economic Development for Everyone

Creating Jobs, Growing Businesses, and Building Resilience in Low-Income Communities

by Mark M. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

How do we create employment, grow businesses, and build greater economic resilience in our low-income communities? How do we create economic development for everyone, everywhere – including rural towns, inner-city neighborhoods, aging suburbs, and regions such as Appalachia, American Indian reservations,...
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World Development and Economic Systems

Theory and Applications

by S I Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with marginal variations. This book extends the scope of theory and applications by asserting that other distinct behaviors evolve and dominate in other economic...
Cover of China's Economic Modernisation and Structural Changes
by Yongnian Zheng, Sarah Y Tong
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

This book provides a timely update on the ongoing transformation of the Chinese economy. As the world's second largest economy, China marked the 40th anniversary of economic reform and opening-up in 2018. In this book, top scholars on Chinese economic studies review China's remarkable economic achievement...
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Asian Economic Integration Report 2015

How Can Special Economic Zones Catalyze Economic Development?

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Economic zones have played a key role in economic development in many Asian economies and can be catalysts for economic development, provided the right business environment and policies are put in place. In Asia, special economic zones (SEZs) can facilitate trade, investment, and policy reform at...
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Abu Dhabi's Vision 2030

An Ongoing Journey of Economic Development

by Linda Low
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012

This book aims to tell the Abu Dhabi story in economic development, from its past dominance in oil to its economic vision for the future. More than being an exemplar of industrial restructuring and diversification from a resource-based to a 21st century knowledge-based economy and society, Abu Dhabi...
Cover of Farewell to China's GDP Worship
by Jinzao Li
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

Economic and social development is and will be the main task in the long run in China, and development is the basis and key to solve the problems faced. Although people have been criticising its limitations for reasons of one sort or another, no better alternative index has ever been put forward....
Cover of Economic Corridor Development for Inclusive Asian Regional Integration
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

The question underlying the entirety of this publication is: "How can viable economic corridors be called into existence by dint of government and multilateral support?" The authors answer this question by examining the experience of economic corridor development of different regions from...
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Peripheral Visions of Economic Development

New frontiers in development economics and the history of economic thought

by
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015

This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions,...
Cover of Perspectives on Global Development 2010
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010

Shifting Wealth is the first edition of Perspectives on Global Development, a new publication from the OECD Development Centre. Shifting Wealth examines the changing dynamics of the global economy over the last 20 years, and in particular the impact of the economic rise of large developing...
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Turbulence and Order in Economic Development

Institutions and Economic Transformation in Tanzania and Vietnam

by Hazel Gray
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

The terms of debate on the role of institutions in economic development are changing. Stable market institutions, in particular, secure private property rights and democratically accountable governments that uphold the rule of law, are widely seen to be a pre-requisite for economic transformation...
Cover of Regional Development and Economic Growth in China
by Yanrui Wu
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

China has enjoyed unprecedented high economic growth for three decades. This growth has however been unbalanced and has led to some serious consequences which Chinese policy makers are now trying to rectify. One of the consequences is the deterioration of regional disparity which is threatening the...
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