Urban Regional category: 846 books
Foreign direct investments in Poland since 1989 - Theoretical background, specific advantages and recent developments
Theoretical background, specific advantages and recent developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,00, University of Abertay Dundee (Economics Department), course: Mini-Project on Europe, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The collapse of communism has started a dramatic change in the...
by Michelle Holder
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after the Great Recession. Using a model of occupational crowding, the book outlines how the representation of African American men in major occupational categories almost universally...
The Saudi Arabian Economy
Policies, Achievements, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically. In the second edition of The Saudi Arabian Economy, Mohamed Ramady uses several overlapping themes to establish...
The Dynamics of Local Learning in Global Value Chains
Experiences from East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
This book investigates the process and mechanism of the capability development of East Asian local manufacturers, which has underpinned their phenomenal rise in the world's competitive landscape of industrial production during the last few decades.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions.
On the growth question, the book looks into the extent of structural transformation...
Measuring Wellbeing
A History of Italian Living Standards
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world. In Measuring Wellbeing, Giovanni Vecchi provides an innovative analysis of this change by drawing on family accounts that provide engaging insights into life and...
Connecting Greater Mekong Subregion Railways
A Strategic Framework
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This strategic framework develops a practical approach to railway integration in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), provides GMS countries with an initial framework for achieving integration and interoperability, identifies priority initiatives, builds a platform for further dialogue and discussion between and among GMS countries, and provides a context for evaluating future projects.
Inclusive Growth and Development in India
Challenges for Underdeveloped Regions and the Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, high economic growth is accompanied by social stratification and widening economic disparity between states. This book illustrates some important aspects of underdevelopment and the process by which the underclass is left behind by focusing on the country's most neglected regions.
Desert Problems and Desertification in Central Asia
The Researchers of the Desert Institute
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since 1962 the Desert Institute of the former Academy of Science of the USSR has been conducting research work in the arid and semi-arid zones of central Asia. This outstanding experience in desert and desertification problems, and the possibilities of sustainable land use under difficult environmental...
Breaking Up the Euro
The End of a Common Currency
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The drama of the common currency is a hot topic. The Euro was planned for the European Union's member states, bringing economically strong nations like Germany and Holland and weaker nations like Greece, Spain and Italy under one set of currency rules. A dozen years of its implementation has shown...
Spatial Econometrics
From Cross-Sectional Data to Spatial Panels
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book provides an overview of three generations of spatial econometric models: models based on cross-sectional data, static models based on spatial panels and dynamic spatial panel data models. The book not only presents different model specifications and their corresponding estimators, but...
Applied Approaches to Societal Institutions and Economics
Essays in Honor of Moriki Hosoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics. They are institutional economics, information economics, environmental economics, international economics, financial economics, industrial organization, public economics, law and economics, and spatial economics....
by Binswanger-Mkhize Hans P.; de Regt Jacomina P.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
This book examines the conceptual foundations of participatory approaches to building local institutions and builds an analytical framework in which civic participation is viewed as a potential solution to specific civil society, market, and government failures. It then uses this framework to review...
The Industrial Policy Revolution I
The Role of Government Beyond Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy. The first, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy,' was hosted by the World Bank in Washington, D.C, and the second, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy: Implications for Africa,' was held in Pretoria, South Africa.