Economic Development category: 2617 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
With contributions from leading scholars in international development, economics, political science, and sociology, this collection draws attention to migration's developmental impacts on sending and receiving societies. Through current case studies, contributors examine the interplay among migration,...
Persistent Underdevelopment
Change and Economic Modernization in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
First published in 1996, this insightful and informative text examines the post-emancipation and recent economic history of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Jay R. Mandle offers an explanation of the region’s continuing underdevelopment. Through the use of an analytical framework derived from the works...
Build It and They Will Come
Lessons from the Northern Economic Corridor: Mitigating HIV and Other Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Infrastructure development brings immediate and obvious benefits to communities. What isn't as immediately obvious is that such development can also open the way for negative changes---such as the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. This report examines the impact on the local people of an important...
by Xiaolin Wang, Limin Wang, Yan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty, and people want to know why and how it happened. International evidence has made it clear that a global economy based on current patterns of consumption and production is...
The Economic Impact of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic
Short- and Medium-Term Estimates for West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty. This impact results partly from the health-care costs...
Urban Composite Development Index for 17 Shandong Cities
Ranking and Simulation Analysis Based on China's Five Development Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Shandong is a thriving economic centre with a Gross Regional Domestic Product of RMB 6.3 trillion in 2015, the third-highest in China. It is also the third-largest province by land area in the country with the second-largest resident population of 98,470,000. With such impressive characteristics,...
by Morris Altman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Some of the fundamental tenets of conventional economic wisdom, which have had a profound impact on public policy, are challenged in this book. These precepts include the affirmation that low wages are more beneficial that high wages to the process of growth and development; convergence in terms of...
Supernormal Growth
China's Economy 19792049
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Supernormal Growth confirms the supernormal achievements of China by providing founding statistics that China, during the past 35 years, experienced a synchronous high-speed growth of investment, consumption, labor productivity with low volatility.
First of its kind, Jeffrey Shi analyzes the...
Proximity, Distance and Diversity
Issues on Economic Interaction and Local Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Bringing together a wide range of empirical studies from around the world (Sweden, Norway, Austria, Germany, France, UK, Israel, Russia, China, Taiwan, Argentina, Canada), framed in related contemporary theoretical frameworks, this book examines the question of the significance of proximate vs. more...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
In light of the opportunities and the challenges facing African economies in the 21st century, this edited volume traces the evolution of poverty in the course of economic development in sub-Saharan Africa over the recent decades. By engaging with, and seeking to develop on, the work of Professor...
Innovations Lead to Economic Crises
Explaining the Bubble Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book examines the link between innovation and economic crises through a systemic philosophy of economic history. Taking the end of the Roman Empire as its starting point, the author guides readers through six economic crises that have occurred up to the present day and uncovers how these may...
Inclusive Dualism
Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
W. Arthur Lewis, the founding father of development economics, proposed a dualist model of economic development in which 'surplus' (predominantly under-employed) labour shifted from lower to higher productivity work. In practice, historically, this meant that labour was initially drawn out of subsistence...
Patterns of Caribbean Development
An Interpretive Essay on Economic Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
First published in 1982, this study attempts to put contemporary Caribbean development into historical perspective. By first constructing a Marxist framework for the study of development , Jay Mandle assesses the reasons why the region emerged underdeveloped and evaluates post-world-war two efforts...
Reforming the Unreformable
Lessons from Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms.
Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and...