Economic Development category: 2617 books
Development Effectiveness Report 2012
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The private sector contributes to economic development by generating jobs and incomes, as well as through investments, new technologies, knowledge transfer, and enhanced productivity. This is particularly true in Asia and the Pacific, where much of the recent success in reducing poverty has been due...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
To help overcome remoteness, Pacific economies are looking to improve economic integration not only through ICT and transport network investments, but also by promoting greater competition and private investment. Enhancing connectivity is crucial to the Pacific and its people, who constantly contend...
Creative Industries and Developing Countries
Voice, Choice and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Pushing the frontiers of the new development paradigm, this book guides debates, clarifies new themes and illustrates how the cultural resources of the developing world can become a new way of integrating into the global economy - helping to raise the voices of developing countries, widening the range...
The Local Economy Solution
How Innovative, Self-Financing "Pollinator" Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Reinventing economic development as if small business mattered
In cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a crossroads. A growing body of evidence has proven that its current cornerstone—incentives to attract and retain large, globally mobile businesses—is a dead...
by Zeng Douglas Zhihua
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
In the past 30 years, China has achieved an unprecedented development "miracle" in human history. How did China achieve this? What are the key drivers for such a rapid growth? And most importantly, what can be learned from China's success? While many factors could be identified to explain China's success,...
by Khee Giap Tan, Randong Yuan, Sangiita Wei Cher Yoong;Mu Yang
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
China is emerging as one of the economic giants of the world, and is gaining international influence and global leadership that commensurate with its rise. China's performance will have far-reaching consequences on whether the economic awakening of the country, which began more than three decades...
The Prosperity Paradox
How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity, and...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
A growing sense of increased economic insecurity has emerged worldwide. Though many parts of the world have seen increasing prosperity in recent decades, economic progress has been accompanied by highly volatile markets, rising inequality, greater job insecurity, and weakening or non-existent social...
Carbon Efficiency, Carbon Reduction Potential, and Economic Development in the People's Republic of China
A Total Factor Production Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
"Carbon intensity" is the traditional measure of an economy's carbon performance. However, it is incapable of capturing the multidimensional features of an economy's carbon performance, particularly when increased emissions have causes other than poor emitting technology, such as changes...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal...
Goh Keng Swee on China
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s. His arguments and analyses were presented clearly and concisely while being firmly established upon economic...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Africa Development Indicators 2012/13 is the most detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators for 53 countries. A companion CD-ROM has additional data, with some 1,700 indicators covering 19612010. -Basic indicators -National and fiscal accounts...
From Windfall to Curse?
Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy,...
Sustainable Economic Development
Green Economy and Green Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book introduces the influence and impacts of green economy and green growth on sustainable economic development. Combining empirical and theoretical information, it provides detailed descriptions of state-of-the-art approaches, methods and initiatives from around the globe that illustrate green...