Economic Development category: 2617 books
Global Governance and Transnationalizing Capitalist Hegemony
The Myth of the 'Emerging Powers'
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is a critique of claims regarding how emerging economies are supposedly rewriting the rules of global governance and ushering in alternative models to neoliberal orthodoxy. It argues that such assumptions are abstractions that ignore both the transnationalizing nature of the global...
Development Without Aid
The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
“Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique of foreign aid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that...
Doing Business 2015
Going Beyond Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Twelfth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2015 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: Starting a business Dealing with construction permits Getting electricity Registering property Getting credit...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Written by established experts in the field, the book examines how countries of the South were affected by the global economic and financial crisis, and how they responded to it. It also reflects on the lessons the South should take away from the experience, and on the policy agenda necessary for supporting...
Managing Development Resources
The Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Successful development depends in large part on the efficiency, integrity and effectiveness with which the state raises, manages and expends public resources. Improving the rules and institutions governing these activities should be a major component, therefore, of any development approach. Given...
Institutions in Transition
Vietnamese State Bank Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"If you want to become a doctor, practice in a war; if you want to become an economist, practice in Vietnam". 1 Phan Van Tiem Vietnam is one of many countries presently undergoing fundamental institutional change: the market mechanism is replacing central planning. So far, the achievements...
Investing in Low-Carbon Energy Systems
Implications for Regional Economic Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development. The book begins with an overview of the state of the art policies in emerging...
U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World
New Challenges and New Priorities for a New Demographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling...
Rich People Poor Countries
The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the...
Juggernaut
How Emerging Powers Are Reshaping Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Against the long sweep of economic history, the current moment is special. Living standards advanced so rapidly and across so many countries over the last decade that it is difficult to think of parallels-even the deepest recession since the Great Depression did not halt progress.
In Juggernaut,...
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries
Failing Markets, Weak States
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Against the backdrop of persistently high levels of poverty and inequality, critical environmental boundaries and increasing global economic interdependence, this book addresses the role and impact of industrial policies in developing countries. Accepting the reality of both market failure and policy...
Poverty and Social Exclusion
New Methods of Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research. This new book, from a leading international group of scholars, offers an up to date and innovative survey of new methods for estimating poverty at...
Innovation Driven Institutional Research
Towards Integral Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series. It continues to build on the previous two works, Community Activation and* Awakening Integral Consciousness*, as well as preceding the fourth and final book, Embodying Integral Development. This book serves as a follow-up to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives. Examining the experiences of 11 developed countries in their earlier stages of development and the experiences of 10 developing and transition economies...