Economic Development category: 2617 books
State Reform and Development in the Middle East
Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented a policy of export led industrialisation whilst Egypt’s manufacturing industry and exports have stagnated.
In this book, Amr Adly uses extensive...
Gender, Mobilities, and Livelihood Transformations
Comparing Indigenous People in China, India, and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent part...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This book examines the transformations of rural society and economy in the UK and US during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these trends and changes for community sustainability, quality of life and the environment. While both the UK and US are highly urbanised, rural people...
Dispossession without Development
Land Grabs in Neoliberal India
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Received Honorable Mention for the 2019 Asia/Transnational Book Award, American...
by Osvaldo N. Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In his foreword, the president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, states plainly and precisely the rationale for this volume. "Evaluation is a central aspect of any poverty reduction endeavor. Evaluation implies that we have adopted a methodology that allows us to look in an effective way...
Eruptions of Popular Anger
The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Eruptions of Popular Anger: The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath sets out to answer three puzzles—the “Arab inequality†? puzzle of civil uprisings in countries with low-to-moderate and stagnant economic inequality, the “unhappy development†? paradox of increasing dissatisfaction...
Reciprocity in the third millennium
Money or the structure of socio-economic evolution - Book II : Geopolitics and New Social Rules
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
A fundamental approach to the structure of the economic evolution, the impact on geopolitics and the role of new social rules.
What does a house, digital data and social connections have in common?
They all are asset classes of a physical-digital economic space.
What does a village marketplace,...
Multi-dimensional Review of Paraguay
Volume 2. In-depth Analysis and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Having achieved robust economic growth and remarkable macroeconomic stability over the past 15 years, Paraguay has set a course to become not only more prosperous, but also more inclusive by 2030. To deliver on its development ambition, the country will have to overcome a number of crosscutting constraints...
Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal
Partnerships in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case...
Dealing with Multiple Currencies in Transitional Economies
The Scope for Regional Cooperation in Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This study, conducted by a team of economists from the Asian Development Bank, academics, and personnel from Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam (the CLV countries) finance ministries and central banks, explores the issues of multiple currencies and regional monetary cooperation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the developing world often lack autonomy. Towards Gender Equity in Development brings together leading scholars working on gender issues to explore key sources of female empowerment and discuss the current challenges and opportunities...
The Political Economy of New Regionalism in Northeast Asia
Dynamics and Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The book is the first attempt to offer a holistic and integrated exploration of the political-economic framework underpinning economic regionalism. In doing so it provides a much-needed contribution to the literature on international political economy, international relations and Asian political economy...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Growth in Ethiopia has surpassed that of every other sub-Saharan country over the past decade and is forecast by the International Monetary Fund to...
Re-Inventing Our Lives
A Handbook for Socio-Economic “Problem-Solving”
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
When we study socio-economic issues we are actually studying the way our lives are planned. This Handbook targets to re-invent the way we think and deal with challenges in our life journey by re-inventing how our mindsets can visualise complex problems. Patterns of problem structure and its activity...