Economic Development category: 2617 books
Policy Stability and Economic Growth – Lessons from the Great Recession
Lessons from the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
John Taylor is one of the foremost economists of our generation. His ideas were implemented in central banks across the world during the period of price stability, economic growth and financial stability that followed the 1980s. Of course, this period culminated in the financial crisis of 2008, which...
Learning as Development
Rethinking International Education in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Learning is the foundation of the human experience. It begins at birth and never stops, a continuous and malleable link across life stages of human development. Disparities in learning access and outcomes around the world have deep consequences for income, social mobility, health, and well-being....
Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Dynamic Change at the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitics...
Machine-learning Techniques in Economics
New Tools for Predicting Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book develops a machine-learning framework for predicting economic growth. It can also be considered as a primer for using machine learning (also known as data mining or data analytics) to answer economic questions. While machine learning itself is not a new idea, advances in computing technology...
The Right to Development in International Law
The Case of Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of relevant...
Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016
Long-Term Finance
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 focuses on the ability of financial systems to sustainably extend the maturity of financial contracts for private agents. The challenges of extending the maturity structure of finance are often considered to be at the core of effective, sustainable financial...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological divides...
The Economics of Science and Technology
An Overview of Initiatives to Foster Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Science and technology have long been regarded as important determinants of economic growth. Edwin Mansfield (1971, pp. 1- 2), a pioneer in the economics of technological change, noted: Technological change is an important, if not the most important, factor responsible for economic growth . . . without...
Economic Growth and Sustainability
Systems Thinking for a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
How to sustain our world for future generations has perplexed us for centuries. We have reached a crossroads: we may choose the rocky path of responsibility or continue on the paved road of excess that promises hardship for our progeny. Independent efforts to resolve isolated issues are inadequate....
Turkish Economy
Between Middle Income Trap and High Income Status
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This book scrutinizes the last 15 years of exceptional growth in the Turkish economy, and presents a model for sustainable ongoing growth that has particular implications for other key emerging economies.
The growth of the Turkish economy in the 2000’s was based on two integrated fundamental...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
`Biotechnology' - the integrated use of biochemistry, microbiology, and chemical engineering for the technological application of the capabilities of microbes and cultured tissue cells - is quickly becoming pervasive and challenging, rapidly developing both new techniques and industries.
The Economic...
Insights on Singapore's Economy and Society from Leading Thinkers
From the Institute of Policy Studies' Singapore Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific. Contributed by the who's who of Singapore's government, business and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This volume contains new important research on banking institutions and performance in transition economies, economic growth and inequality and exchange rate economics and international finance. Topics include exchange rate exposure of firms, the relationship between monetary policy and house price...
by amusa abdulateef
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Makers of products and providers of services target sales. An economy whose producers and sellers are having dwindling sales is suffering from economic recession. Unfortunately, most of the makers and the sellers are failing to recognize the factors militating against huge patronage. It is not just...