Economic Development category: 2617 books
The Myanmar Economy
Its Past, Present and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
With motivated human resources and a rich natural bounty, Myanmar is expected to take off with sustained growth and eventually attain a unique welfare state. On the basis of the authors’ field surveys and innumerable dialogues with public officials, private professionals, scholars, and others, in...
by Kobil Ruziev
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Modern development strategy relies heavily on uncompromising orthodox economic theory and a dogmatic faith in market efficiency. In contrast, the essays in this volume aim to emphasize the importance of historic experiences to evolve a more realistic and dynamic view of how such development could be formalized.
The Great Surge
The Ascent of the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The untold story of the global poor: “Powerful, lucid, and revelatory, The Great Surge…offers indispensable prescriptions about sustaining global economic progress into the future” (George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management).
We live today at a time of great progress for the global...
Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future
Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more powerful economies will prevent them from using the limited...
Assessing Prospective Trade Policy
Methods Applied to EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The European Union (EU) has provided trade preferences to the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries since 1975. To maintain these preferences, a series of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and regional groupings of ACP countries are being agreed, (negotiations started...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive action plan for complete and permanent eradication of poverty. It suggests only evolutionary changes, not any drastic coercive measures, such as nationalization. The Government will initiate the process but will not have a major role in its implementation.
The major...
Development Economics
Its Position in the Present State of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Interest in the problems of underdeveloped economies has increased since the early 1950s, and is now a primary topic in university courses. When this book was originally published, it reflected a sense among some economists that current, orthodox economic theory is inadequate in this field.The volume...
Food Policy and the Environmental Credit Crunch
From Soup to Nuts
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending. This is certainly true from the perspective of food prices in the short run, but also from the perspective of sustainability and...
Multi-Dimensional Review of Thailand (Volume 1)
Initial Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Thailand has made impressive progress over the past several decades, both in economic and social terms. Sustained strong growth and a rapidly modernising economy have turned Thailand into an upper middle-income country with a strong urban centre. Economic success has brought impressive social advancement....
The Financialisation of Power
How financiers rule Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The financial crash of 2008 led people all over the world to ask how far financiers are in control of our lives. To what extent does what they do with our money affect our everyday lives? This book asks whether the crisis, and subsequent use of public subsidies to help the international economy recover,...
Population and Development
High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and income...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book discusses wide topics related to current issues in economic growth and development, international trade, macroeconomic and financial stability, inflation, monetary policy, banking, productivity, agriculture and food security. It is a collection of seventeen research papers selected based...
by J.M. Albala-Bertrand
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of Large...
Public Capital, Growth and Welfare
Analytical Foundations for Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
In the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant mortality rates to higher life expectancy. Yet, 1.3 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty in the developing world, leading policymakers to place a renewed emphasis...