Economic Development category: 2617 books
Europe's Troubled Region
Economic Development, Institutional Reform, and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
The countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the province of Kosovo - form a core European region. The region is known for its instability and recent history of wars and civil conflicts, but far less is known about the changes that...
China Green Development Index Report 2012
Regional Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The report was launched during China’s Twelfth Five-year Period (2011-2015). After revising the measurement system of the Green Development Index 2011, the report measures the green development level of 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions as well as 38 large and medium-sized cities...
by S. Conti, P. Giaccaria
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again turned their attention to space and places. The hypothesis is that these are not accidental episodes but a full-blown revolution in the way of viewing economic processes and their links with social and cultural structures. In other words,...
Stronger Than Steel
Forging a Rust Belt Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Stronger than Steel is the story of a company town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that used alternative economic development strategies, including arts, tourism, and a casino to propel its way out of devastation of deindustrialization. Bethlehem’s strategies have been rewarded with dramatic results.
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Revitalizing Rural Economies
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Rural communities in Canada are facing a new reality where traditional economic bases such as agriculture, forestry, and manufacturing have eroded. The digital divide, whereby rural Canada lags in access to broadband, has created further barriers to participating in the emerging knowledge economy. Revitalizing...
Papua New Guinea: Critical Development Constraints
Critical Development Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Papua New Guinea's economic growth has outpaced the majority of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific since 2007. Its development challenges, however, remain daunting, and it lags behind other countries in the region in terms of per capita income and achievement of the Millennium Development...
Regional Trade and Economic Integration
Analytical Insights and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
The Asia-Pacific region has emerged as a dominant player in trade and will continue to be an influential pole of world trade and economics, with the center of gravity shifting to this region. This book presents analytical insights into the various regional and bilateral trade agreements (RTAs) and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor updates the 2016 and 2017 GDP growth and inflation projections ADB's Pacific developing member countries. The theme of the policy briefs in this issue is Fisheries in Pacific Economies.
Egypt's Political Economy
Power Relations in Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This new study deals with the unfolding of the great political and economic transformations of the modern Egyptian state from the appointment of Muhammad Ali as governor of Egypt in 1805 to the era of President Mubarak, with a special focus on the period 1990 2005, which witnessed a rigorous implementation...
Dreams and Reality
New Era of China's Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This book is a detailed study on the future development trends of China by well-known Chinese and foreign scholars. The emphasis is on the study of the development of relations between China and the world, from both the micro and macro points of view. Besides China's external relations, the authors...
Enhancing Capabilities through Labour Law
Informal Workers in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need to ensure appropriate employment and income, rights at work, and effective social protection in informal economic activities. Such a call by the ILO is urgent...
Scarcity and Frontiers
How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates incentives in all economies to innovate and conserve...
The Economic Success of a State
The Principle of Economic Duals and the Category of Diversified Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
The Economic Success of a State is divided into three parts. The first part describes a newly found economic regularity named “economic dual” and the theoretical approach to generate the power of an economic space.----The second part lists everything connected with the economic cores and resources...
Black Africa 1945-1980
Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid and sustained economic development in Africa for the most part disappointed? This title, originally...