Economic Development category: 2617 books
Economics of the Marine
Modelling Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the national, to regional and small area analysis within the context of base theory, New Economic Geography, agglomeration theory,...
by Thomas Vogt
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Economic Cycle and Growth, grade: 1,0, University of applied sciences Frankfurt a. M., course: Inflation and the Phillips Curve, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this paper the author will discuss the relation...
Global Handbook of Quality of Life
Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical findings and presents the main items of global quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope of topics, the handbook examines discussions...
Cross-border Contract Farming Arrangement
Variations and Implications in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This series features the scholarly works supported by the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management, a region-wide capacity building program of the Asian Development Bank that supports knowledge products and services. It seeks to disseminate research results to a wider audience so that policy makers,...
Transformative Innovation for International Development
Operationalizing Innovation Ecosystems and Smart Cities for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This study—the result of a collaboration between CSIS and the JICA Research Institute in Japan—reviews U.S. and Japanese public and private approaches to innovation, including building innovation ecosystems and promoting smart cities technology. It also presents two case studies that explore a...
Japan’s Lost Decade
Lessons for Asian Economies
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book discusses Japan’s long-term economic recession and provides remedies for that recession that are useful for other Asian economies. The book addresses why Japan’s economy has stagnated since the bursting of its economic bubble in the 1990s. Its empirical analysis challenges the beliefs...
Collaborative Stewardship
Analytical Approach to Quality of Life in Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Collaborative Stewardship: Analytical Approach to Improving Quality of Life in Communities rests upon the idea that community should be seen as a living organism, one for which specific functions need to be in working order for the community to survive and then operate at peak performance. To date,...
by eDIGIREGION Project Team eDIGIREGION Project Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Region-specific Joint Action Plans (JAPs) are regional roadmaps developed collaboratively and jointly by stakeholders within a given region, whose aim is to enhance the economic development and sustainability of their regions. Regional stakeholders, including representatives from local and regional...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Major changes have been occurring almost unnoticed in staple value chains in Asia. The Quiet Revolution in Staple Food Value Chains documents and explains the transformation of value chains moving rice and potatoes between the farm gate and the consumer in Bangladesh, the People’s Republic of China,...
by Erica Schoenberger
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The resurgence of political economy as an important topic reflects the deep interpenetration of politics and economics. There are few economic issues of consequence that are not shaped by government decisions, and there are few governments whose agendas are not dominated by economic issues. No country...
by Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon, who...
The World Heroin Market
Can Supply Be Cut?
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other...
Improving Accessibility of Financial Services in the Border-Gate Areas to Facilitate Cross-Border Trade
The Case of Viet Nam and Implications for Greater Mekong Subregion Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This series features the scholarly works supported by the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management, a region-wide capacity building program of the Asian Development Bank that supports knowledge products and services. It seeks to disseminate research results to a wider audience so that policy makers,...