Economic Development category: 2617 books
Jump-Starting America
How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded...
The Next Convergence
The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world's population started to experience extraordinary economic growth—leading to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world....
Global Inequality
A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner Institut A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the Year One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive...
New Trends in Development Theory
Essays in Development and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
The theme of this work, first published in 1985, is the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory. They provide preliminary analysis of the multiplicity of social-theoretic arguments in development theory and their implications for social theory in general.
The book...
by Dan Brockington
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet this may not matter very much. Many people at the core of advocacy, and in political and business elites, simply do not...
The Crash Course
The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years.
The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window...
Toward a New Paradigm of Sustainable Development
Lessons from the Partnership for Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Partnership for Growth (PfG) is one of the first experiments to operationalize the Obama administration’s strategy to bring greater programmatic coherence to U.S. trade and development initiatives in four countries—The Philippines, El Salvador, Ghana, and Tanzania. A key goal was to reinforce...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
The essential guide to the world’s most influential development thinkers, this authoritative text presents a unique guide to the lives and ideas of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies.
Reflecting the diverse, interdisciplinary nature of the area, the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Doing Development Research is a comprehensive introduction to research in development studies, that provides thorough training for anyone carrying out research in developing countries. It brings together experts with extensive experience of overseas research, presenting an interdisciplinary guide...
Economic Growth in Europe
A Comparative Industry Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Why has European growth slowed down since the 1990s while American productivity growth has speeded up? This book provides a thorough and detailed analysis of the sources of growth from a comparative industry perspective. It argues that Europe's slow growth is the combined result of a severe productivity...
Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries
Issues, Time Series Analyses and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
The recent global ?nancial crisis has made ?nancial liberalization a topic of great academic and practical interest. This book makes new contributions to the topic by combining fact-?nding, empirical analysis, and theory to examine the relationship between ?nancial liberalization and economic growth....
Economic Growth
Theory and Numerical Solution Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
This is a book on deterministic and stochastic Growth Theory and the computational methods needed to produce numerical solutions. Exogenous and endogenous growth models are thoroughly reviewed. Special attention is paid to the use of these models for fiscal and monetary policy analysis. Modern Business...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
The OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts periodic reviews of the individual development co-operation efforts of DAC members. The policies and programmes of each DAC member are critically examined approximately once every five years. DAC peer reviews assess the performance of a given...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Costa Rica is the result of a project carried out by the Centro Centroamericano de Población (CCP) at the University of Costa Rica and the OECD Development Centre, in collaboration with the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjeria...