Economic Development category: 2617 books
Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)
A Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): A Manual provides a comprehensive summary of the EKC, summarizing work on this economic tool that can analyze environmental pollution problems. By enabling users to reconcile environmental and economic development policies, Environmental Kuznets Curve studies lend...
Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries
New Analytical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. New approaches in development economics have in recent years started from the premise...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium “Beyond Global Capitalism” that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013. The book is intended make the reader aware that global capitalism,...
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The World Bank Group has responded to the global economic crisis with a strong countercyclical expansion of financing. Its disbursements of 80 billion in the past two fiscal years were the largest among the Multilateral Development Banks. There was notable variation across the WBG with vastly increased...
Fiji
Building Inclusive Institutions for Sustained Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
From 2010 onward, Fiji witnessed one of its strongest spells of economic growth since independence. Extreme poverty is in the single digits, but nearly a third of the population is unable to meet basic needs. Fiji thus faces two major challenges: to create a business environment that can attract more...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This report contains the comprehensive reports of the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum Sub-Forum 1 (SF1) and Sub-Forum 2 (SF2). The SF1 report (Volume 1) analyzes the harmonization and standardization of the existing bond markets in the ASEAN+3. It also contains the individual market guides of 11 economies...
by Pádraig Carmody
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at...
Detroit
Three Pathways to Revitalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
As America's most dysfunctional big city, Detroit faces urban decay, population losses, fractured neighborhoods with impoverished households, an uneducated, unskilled workforce, too few jobs, a shrinking tax base, budgetary shortfalls, and inadequate public schools. Looking to the city's future, Lewis...
Building a Sustainable Energy Future
The Greater Mekong Subregion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
An integrated, prosperous, and equitable Mekong subregion is the vision of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program. Developing the energy sector is critical to realizing this vision. The results of the formal energy modeling exercise make a strong case for pursuing an integrated...
West African Perspectives
Resources for Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
West African Perspectives: Resources for Development conducts a cross-cutting analysis of the main development challenges in the region and offers suggestions on how to meet them. It provides an overview of West Africa’s abundant resources , examining not only economic and natural resources but...
Economic Jihad
Putting the Kibosh on Antiquated Social Axioms Defining Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
"Jo M. Sekimonyo can be best described as a realist, a philosopher of socioeconomic inequality, a humanitarian, and a person that is not afraid to speak his own mind. Through CAST AWAY: FOR THESE REASONS: ECONOMIC JIHAD he challenges mankind to wake up and realize that evil exists and is taking...
Transitional Puzzles
Reflections on Social, Economic and Political Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
Transitional Puzzles: Reflections on Social, Economic and Political Issues is a collection of essays on India. Remarkable for its jargon-free clarity, the book is intended for the common man who seeks to understand the India he lives in. The articles offer simple analysis of complex policies, dealing...
Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion
The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the developed world. The assumption is that area-based initiatives provide a means by which enterprise can include all members of society in mainstream social...