Economic Development category: 2617 books
by Young Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
There is widespread agreement that the world's most successful developing countries in the 1980s were those in Southeast Asia. Following in the footsteps of postwar Japan and more recently Korea, the populations of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have made...
South Asian Economic Development
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
South Asia's developing nations have been enjoying moderate to high growth over the past decade before the global recession began. This new edition provides an up-to-date guide to the growing markets in South Asia. It offers an analysis of the changes and consequences of high sustainable growth, investigating...
by Bruno Losch, Sandrine Freguin-Gresh, Eric Thomas White
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This book makes a compelling case for reintegrating structural issues into agricultural and rural development policies, which have for the last 30 years over-focused on short-term issues. It shows how the liberalization of agriculture in many late developing countries has not in fact led to the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Russia is one of the world's largest growing economies. With this exciting new growth and development, there is a wealth of knowledge to be discovered from the strategies and models being used and created throughout Russia’s economy.
Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Russia portrays...
Deals and Development
The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
New developments in socio-economics aid in increased productivity of manufacturing. These advances result in long-term improvement of competitiveness and innovation. The Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development is an essential reference...
Gender Inequality
Socioeconomic Analysis and Developing Country Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
This unique book provides an easily comprehended overview of facts about gender inequality and contains a valuable introduction to economic theories of this inequality, the applicability of which is assessed in the light of empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is its adoption of a multidisciplinary...
Capital Women
The European Marriage Pattern, Female Empowerment and Economic Development in Western Europe 1300-1800
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
How women increasingly became economic agents in early modern Europe is the focus of this stimulating book, which highlights how female agency was crucial for understanding the development of the Western European economy and sheds light on economic development today. Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine De...
Vanuatu Economic Report 2009
Accelerating Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Over the last several years, Vanuatu has become one of the fastest growing economies in the Pacific region driven primarily by tourism, construction, and aid inflows. The achievement of strong economic growth has also occurred on the back of improved economic policy, effective fiscal management, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The foundation of this volume is the notion that the several processes of change constituting economic and social development are systematically interrelated. The essence of development is the appearance of rapid rates of increases in many different indices--output per capita, political participation,...
Employment and Development
How Work Can Lead From and Into Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Employment and Development brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary S. Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. Most of the poor in developing countries live in households in which people work, but still they are poor because the best...
Cultures of Development
Vietnam, Brazil and the Unsung Vanguard of Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failure, the few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by rejecting the advice of Western experts....
by Volker Bornschier
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries.
The book is a...
Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development
Contrasting Theories and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive development...