Economic Development category: 2617 books
by Klaus Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.
Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale,...
The Lion Awakes
Adventures in Africa's Economic Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Three little known facts: Africa is now the world's fastest growing continent, with average GDP growth of 5.5% the past 10 years. Malaria deaths have declined by 30% and HIV infections by 74%. Nigeria produces more movies than America does.
The Lion Awakes is the true story of today's Africa,...
Poverty and Progress
Realities and Myths about Global Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
In his new book, Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty, renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress. Unique among books that have emerged...
Flammable Societies
Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The impact of the oil and gas industry – paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development – is a question at the heart of the comparative studies in this volume stretching from Northern Europe to the Caucasus, the Gulf of Guinea to Latin America. *BR**BR*Britain’s...
China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
The World Bank Group is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Its focus is on helping the poorest people in the poorest countries by using its financial resources, staff, and extensive experience to aid countries in reducing poverty, increasing...
Escape from Empire
The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth—including future economic superpowers India and China—have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.
The American government has been...
Economic Integration in Africa
The East African Community in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In this work, Richard E. Mshomba offers an in-depth analysis of economic integration in Africa with a focus on the East African Community (EAC), arguably the most ambitious of all the regional economic blocs currently in existence in Africa. Economic Integration in Africa provides more than just an...
The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)
The Effects of Government Policy, 1945-79
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.
Rather...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have recorded impressive economic growth rates since 2000, driven mainly by the export of commodities and labour. However, the end of the commodity super-cycle and the recent economic slowdown highlighted the risks inherent...
African Economic Outlook 2009
Overview
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
The African Economic Outlook 2009 reviews the recent economic situation and predicts the short-term evolution of 47 African countries which account for 99% of the continent's economic output and 97% of its population. The Outlook is drawn from a country-by-country analysis based on a unique analytical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of...
Reviving Economic Growth
Policy Proposals from 51 Leading Experts
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
If you could wave a magic wand and make one or two policy or institutional changes to brighten the U.S. economy’s long-term growth prospects, what would you change and why? That was the question asked to the 51 contributors to this volume. These essays originally appeared in conjunction with a conference...
Inclusiveness in India
A Strategy for Growth and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states. It provides a comprehensive study of disparity and deepens insight into understanding processes of economic and social development.