Economic Development category: 2617 books
Productivity Convergence
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A vast new literature on the sources of economic growth has now accumulated. This book critically reviews the most significant works in this field and summarizes what is known today about the sources of economic growth. The first part discusses the most important theoretical models that have been...
China 2030
Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms, strengthen its private sector, open its markets to greater competition and innovation, and ensure equality of opportunity to help achieve its goal of a new structure for economic growth....
Book Review: Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
The dark side of globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz offers an insider’s view of the role played by the International Monetary Fund and the World...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This publication summarizes the papers and presentations in Workshops on Economics of Infrastructure in a Globalized World, funded by the Asian Development Bank through a regional technical assistance project. The discussions at the conferences focused on three themes: (i) the role of infrastructure...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), most of them former components of the communist bloc, have suffered diverse influences over time. Historically, the advent of communism in the 1950s has stopped the economic and political development of these countries. Its fall during the late 1980s...
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change
Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies....
Progress or Collapse
The Crises of Market Greed
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on the horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision course against the limits of the ecosystem. Modern societies are consuming, polluting...
Going Beyond Aid
Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Developing countries have for decades been trying to catch up with the industrialized high-income countries, but only a few have succeeded. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional development aid is inadequate to address the bottlenecks...
Why Growth Matters
How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral...
Bank Risk Management in Developing Economies
Addressing the Unique Challenges of Domestic Banks
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Bank Risk Management in Developing Economies: Addressing the Unique Challenges of Domestic Banks provides an up-to-date resource on how domestically-based banks in emerging economies can provide financial services for all economic sectors while also contributing to national economic development policies.
Because...
by Steven Coutinho
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
"There is only one thing that holds people and nations back. It's a story that explains who they are and what they can and cannot do. Breaking Rank helps you to understand the mind and unlock people's true potential."
Summary:
How can you motivate people and empower them to make better...
Development Crises and Alternative Visions
Third World Women's Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations...
Africa
Why Economists Get It Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
‘A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.’
Foreign Affairs
Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across...