Economic Development category: 2617 books
A World of Three Cultures
Honor, Achievement and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In this book, Miguel Basáñez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on global development. Drawing on data from governments, NGOs, the World Values Survey and more addressing over one hundred countries, he argues that values, as the "building blocks" of culture, are directly related...
Wealth through Integration
Regional Integration and Poverty-Reduction Strategies in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Could regional integration be a first step toward joining the global market? In a context where liberalizing trade has not produced the expected gains in developing countries and growth in global trade has not led to the expected economic growth, an alternative solution has emerged. This new paradigm...
by Stephan Pfaffenzeller
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Our post-industrialised global economy has achieved spectacular success and pushed back poverty to an extent previously thought impossible. This success is ultimately based on the continued supply of both renewable and non-renewable resources. Will this supply of primary commodities remain sufficient...
by Panagiotis E. Petrakis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
It is a wide-spread belief that the cultural background inhered in a society affects the requirements of economic development. This relationship requires theoretical and empirical justification. The present book provides this together with an analysis of the development of cultural background itself....
Financial Inclusion, Remittance Inflows, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Evidence from Empirical Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Many empirical analyses have demonstrated that financial inclusion and remittance inflows both indicate the potential of finance to resolve issues of growth and poverty in developing countries. Based on a wide-ranging review of prior research and empirical analyses from a new perspective, this book...
Economic Growth
The New Perspectives for Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book shows that the existing theories on economic growth have clear limitations in terms of how much they can effectively contribute to actual economic growth. Therefore, this book presents a more effective theory on economic growth for countries and leaders looking to promote economic growth....
Measuring Welfare beyond Economics
The genuine progress of Hong Kong and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Dissatisfaction with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of a country’s development or a population’s wellbeing led to the development of the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GPI is an aggregate index of over 20 economic, social and environmental indicators, and accounts for...
by Alan B. Mountjoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The volume of relevant research and literature on this topic is growing but originates mainly from economists, sociologists, and political scientists; geographers have been slow to make contributions. One reason may be that geographers have been preoccupied with differentiation within the geography...
The Political Economy of Innovation Development
Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth. Bazhal develops Schumpeter's theory to argue that genuine economic growth - especially in transitioning and developing countries - is only possible with innovation....
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The East–West Economic Corridor (EWEC) was launched in 1998 as a flagship initiative of the Greater Mekong Subregion. EWEC has since achieved many of its infrastructure targets and must now be transformed from a transport corridor into an economic corridor. This report reviews and updates the Pre-Investment...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Economic and social progress in Solomon Islands has been limited since the country’s independence, and the recent global economic crisis has placed more pressure on the country’s economy. The resulting fiscal crunch and emerging balance-of-payments pressures demand a coordinated macroeconomic policy...
by Evgeny Vinokurov
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia, is a new but substantial regional organization. Significant achievements include a common external customs tariff, a customs union and a common labour market: a well-developed institutional environment...
Economics of Agricultural Development
World Food Systems and Resource Use
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries. It discusses potential solutions to these problems, progress made in many countries in recent years, and the implications of globalization for agriculture,...
Uneven Centuries
Economic Development of Turkey since 1820
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The first comprehensive history of the Turkish economy
The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries,...