Economic Development category: 2617 books
African Successes, Volume IV
Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet...
Multi-dimensional Review of Myanmar
Volume 3. From Analysis to Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Myanmar is in need of a structural transformation from an agrarian economy to one based more on a mix of modern activities, including manufacturing and services. Modernising the agricultural sector by building linkages to complementary non-agricultural activities – an “agricultural value chain”...
Re-thinking Intellectual Property
The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and...
Digital Interactions in Developing Countries
An Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate.
Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions,...
The Financial Crisis and the Global South
A Development Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This book is a major contribution exploring the policy options available for developing and emerging economies in response to the global economic crises.
Written by a highly respected development economist, the book gives a clear-eyed account of the issues particular to these countries and...
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America
The Social and Environmental Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
During Latin America’s China-led commodity boom, governments turned a blind eye to the inherent flaws in the region’s economic policy. Now that the commodity boom is coming to an end, those flaws cannot be ignored. High on the list of shortcomings is the fact that Latin American governments—and...
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America
The Social and Environmental Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
During Latin America’s China-led commodity boom, governments turned a blind eye to the inherent flaws in the region’s economic policy. Now that the commodity boom is coming to an end, those flaws cannot be ignored. High on the list of shortcomings is the fact that Latin American governments—and...
Development Economics in Action
A Study of Economic Policies in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa’s most closely watched economies. In this new edition three additional chapters provide a detailed account of 1978-2008.
Financing Urban Shelter
Global Report on Human Settlements 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the...
African Industrial Development and European Union Co-operation
Prospects for a reengineered partnership
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Of the 54African states, only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries. The economic activities in Africa are still dominated by the production and trade of agricultural and mineral commodities. This situation is...
System Innovation for Sustainability 1
Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) was adopted as a priority area during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 and has since become one of the main vehicles for targeting international sustainability policy. Sustainable consumption focuses on formulating equitable...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Although clusters are regarded as important elements in economic development, the strong focus in the literature on the way clusters function is contrasted with a disregard for their evolutionary development: how clusters actually become clusters, how and why they decline, and how they shift into...
Launching a New Chapter in U.S.-Africa Relations
Deepening the Business Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Africa’s changing economic landscape is prompting a shift in how U.S. policymakers view the continent. High growth rates, new technologies, and a rapidly expanding consumer class are driving greater global competition for investment and access to potential export markets, and the United States is...
by China Academy of Information and Communi, EU-China Policy Dialogues Support Facili
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book, examining smart-city trends and developments from global, Chinese and EU perspectives, shows how the concept of the smart city varies from city to city. A detailed analysis is made to present the smart city as an up-to-date model of world city. Thirty pilot cities answer questions designed...