Economic Development category: 2617 books
Inclusive Growth
The Global Challenges of Social Inequality and Financial Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Inclusive growth ensures the benefits of a growing economy extend to all segments of society. Unleashing people’s economic potential starts with connecting them to the vital networks that power the modern economy. Implementing inclusive growth is a means of democratizing productivity and it is essential...
by Xiaojing Zhang, Xin Chang
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book provides a historical overview of Chinese economic reform over the past 30 years. From the genesis of the reform to the gradual improvement of the market system, and then to the re-start of the critical stage of the reform, this book includes not only research on the reform process, but...
by A. Beltratti
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The connection between economic growth and the quality of the environment is a popular subject. Since the second half of the 1980s, there has been an increasingly frequent use of the term "sustainable development", to refer to the preoccupation that the production of goods and services may...
by Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrialized society was the only road for India to progress. So, for the past few decades, India has focused its transitional development around movement away from a state-controlled economy toward that of a free...
2014 Annual Provincial and Regional Competitiveness Analysis for Greater China Economies
Development Strategies under the New Normal
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
After more than three decades of rapid growth, China is now entering into the New Normal Era, which will be characterised by slower but sustainable, quality growth for several decades to come. How China will fare under the New Normal Era matters not only for itself but also for its great impact on...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The links between literacy and development have been the focus of research conducted by both economists and anthropologists. Yet researchers from these different disciplines have tended to work in isolation from each other. This book aims to create a space for new interdisciplinary debate in this...
South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development
Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This ground-breaking book is one of the first to analyse the important phenomenon of South-South educational migration for refugees. It focuses particularly on South-South scholarship programmes in Cuba and Libya, which have granted free education to children, adolescents and young adults from two...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Over the past 2 decades, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its developing member countries have worked together to promote regional cooperation and integration (RCI). Evolving economic conditions continually pose new challenges to RCI efforts. In March 2012, about 160 representatives from Asia...
Economic Clusters and Globalization
Diversity and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
This volume shows that in today’s globalized world, clusters are an important factor in explaining the different growth rates of firms, cities and regions. Drawing on the expertise of an international contributor team, it covers topics such as clusters and small and medium-sized enterprise competitiveness,...
Industrialisation and Rural Livelihoods in China
Agricultural Processing in Sichuan
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Since the mid-1990s, "agricultural industrialisation" (AI) has been advocated in China to promote rural development by integrating agriculture with the post-harvest sectors such as agro-processing and marketing. Large-scale "Dragon head enterprises" (DHEs) and various forms of...
Regulatory Assessment Toolkit
A Practical Methodology For Assessing Regulation on Trade and Investment in Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The services sector—ranging from telecommunications and banking to business processing and outsourcing—is increasingly recognized as part and parcel of any trade strategy, both as a source of export diversification in its own right as well as a key component of a country’s competitiveness. Unlike...
Road and Rail Infrastructure in Asia
Investing in Quality
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Road and Rail Infrastructure in Asia: Investing in Quality discusses the challenges facing the region and possible policy options, including those previously or currently used in Emerging Asian countries, with reference to the experiences of OECD member countries. It provides analysis and recommendations...
Multi-Dimensional Review of Panama
Volume 1: Initial Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Since the beginning of the 21st century, Panama has exhibited remarkable economic growth and has reduced the gap in terms of income per capita with high-income countries. Social progress has also been achieved, mainly through the reduction of poverty and advances in some well-being dimensions. However,...
Creating a Learning Society
A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In...