Economic Development category: 2617 books
by Robert E. Looney
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
A major new volume in the Routledge International Handbooks series analysing emerging and newly emerged economies, including the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and other likely (Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Korea) as well as possible (Vietnam, The Philippines,...
Capital and Collusion
The Political Logic of Global Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries? Capital and Collusion explores the political incentives that either foster growth or steal nations' growth prospects.
Hilton Root examines the frontier between risk and uncertainty, analyzing the forces driving development...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation addresses the economics of structural transformation around the world. It deals with major themes, which include history and context, critical issues and concepts, methodological foundations, main theoretical approaches, policy issues, some illuminating...
Enabling Enterprise Transformation
Business and Grassroots Innovation for the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Private enterprises in advanced economies have been learning to use information and communication technology (ICT) to innovate and transform their processes, products, services and business models, significantly improving productivity and competitiveness. Moreover, the ICT industry itself has become...
Market Menagerie
Health and Development in Late Industrial States
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Market Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan. Pharmaceutical and life science industries can reinforce economic development and industry growth, but not necessarily positive health...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Economics offers new insights into the rapidly-developing economies of Southeast Asia. Despite widespread initial deprivation, Southeast Asia has achieved and sustained a remarkable rate of growth, in the course of which tens of millions have successfully...
From Economic Crisis to Reform
IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
The wave of neoliberal economic reforms in the developing world since the 1980s has been regarded as the result of both severe economic crises and policy pressures from global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Using comparative evidence from the initiation and implementation...
Microfinance, Debt and Over-Indebtedness
Juggling with Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This has brought to light the problem of over-indebtedness, a topic which has been previously underexplored in the literature.
This new book,...
Cities and Public Policy
An Urban Agenda for India
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The twenty-first century will witness a rapid urban expansion in the developing world. India, it is believed, will be at the forefront of such a phenomenon. This book acknowledges the role of agglomeration externalities as the cornerstone of urban public policy in India.
Arguing that hypotheses...
Multi-dimensional Review of Kazakhstan
Volume 2. In-depth Analysis and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Kazakhstan has embarked upon an ambitious reform agenda to realise its aspiration of becoming one of the top 30 global economies by 2050. The country’s economy and society have undergone deep transformations since independence. To sustain economic progress, overcome recent difficulties, and drive...
Fiscal Underpinnings for Sustainable Development in China
Rebalancing in Guangdong
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book collects high-quality papers on issues related to the rebalancing strategy in China, new clean cities as “hubs’’, liability management, and involving the private sector, including through PPPs, with specific examples from Guangdong.
Guangdong has been at the forefront...
Bearing the Brunt
Impact of Rural Distress on Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
This book refutes the rising general perception that the gender gap in India is decreasing.
The argument is strengthened by calculating the gender gap index at two time periods and providing quantitative information along with information pertaining to numerous case studies.
Selecting...
Taming the Anarchy
Groundwater Governance in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions...
China’s Transformation
The Success Story and the Success Trap
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 to the present.
Based on the author’s research in China for over three decades, China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap shows how its ‘reform and open door’...