Economic Development category: 2617 books
How it all Began (Routledge Revivals)
Origins of the Modern Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1975, this book traces the origins of our modern economy, showing the routes by which nations have either achieved wealth or have been impoverished. W. W. Rostow brings together issues of public policy, international trade and the world of science and technology, arguing that conventional...
China Constructing Capitalism
Economic Life and Urban Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which – more or less – understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business-...
Resistance to Modernization in Africa
Journey Among Peasants and Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development from the 1980s to the present. Sivini writes with both passion and cynicism about his experiences with...
The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century
Paving a New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014. Richard Pomfret examines the countries’ relations with external powers and the possibilities...
Handbook of Small States
Economic, Social and Environmental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This handbook covers a wide spectrum of issues relating to small states. Chapters in the volume have been grouped under the three main themes of economic, social and environmental issues. The economics sections include chapters dealing with trade, finance and regulatory frameworks, while the social...
Competitive Strategy
A Contemporary Retake
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. Professor Michael Porter’s treatise, formulated in 1980, remains the only integrated work on the subject to date. While its core concepts endure, it requires the holistic incorporation of additional insights and prescriptions,...
The Wealth of Nations
A Translation into Modern English
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is the great pioneering study of economic growth and performance.
When first published in 1776, the factory-based Industrial Revolution was only just getting underway. However, there had been steadily rising production and incomes in Britain, the North American...
Reciprocity in the Third Millennium
Money or the structure of socio-economic evolution - Book I : Loss of Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A fundamental and interesting approach of the structure of the economic evolution and the impact of money on people's behaviorWhat do shells, 3 tons stones, paper, gold and digital bits have in common?They all are, have been or will be currencies.What does money, debt or a gift have in common?They are...
by Blair Fix
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Neoclassical growth theory is the dominant perspective for explaining economic growth. At its core are four implicit assumptions: 1) economic output can become decoupled from energy consumption; 2) economic distribution is unrelated to growth; 3) large institutions are not important for growth; and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Determinants of economic growth: An overview Thijs de Ruyter van Steveninck, Nico van der Windt, and Maaike Oosterbaan Netherlands Economic Institute What causes economic growth? Why have some countries grown much faster than others? Why do some countries not grow at all, or even experience negative...
India's New Economic Policy
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India’s economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who...
Patentism Replacing Capitalism
A Prediction from Logical Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Based on economic knowledge and logical reasoning, this book proposes a solution to economic recessions and offers a route for societal change to end capitalism. The author starts with a brief review of the history of economics, and then questions and rejects the trend of recent decades that has seen...
Lao PDR
Accelerating Structural Transformation for Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has shown remarkable progress by consistently building itself into a market-oriented economy, with economic growth in 1986-2016 averaging around 6.5% per annum. The rapid and sustained growth brought about changes in the structure of output, but did not...
by Terrence W. Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This work discusses the failure of policies employed by the government from 1958 to 2008 to foster the growth and development of the economy.