Economic Development category: 2617 books
Catch Up
Developing Countries in the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Catch Up analyzes the evolution of developing countries in the world economy from a long-term historical perspective, from the onset of the second millennium but with a focus on the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century. It is perhaps among the first...
The World Turned Upside Down
The Complex Partnership Between China and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Acting as a Sorcerer's Apprentice, the West incorporated 1.3 billion Chinese and 1.2 billion Indians into the world's labour equation within a context of lower production costs. This resulted in erosion of its competitive capacity and social stability, while greatly benefiting developing economies,...
by Otaviano Canuto Marcelo M. Giugale
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
The global financial crisis of 200809 did not just change the global economic order. It also changed the way we think about that order. Principles and practices that were once accepted wisdom are now in doubt or discredited. New fundamental questions opened. And the search for answers has barely begun....
Economic Transitions to Neoliberalism in Middle-Income Countries
Policy Dilemmas, Crises, Mass Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Neoliberalism is based on the systematic use of state power to impose, under the veil of ‘non-intervention’, a hegemonic project of recomposition of capitalist rule in most areas of social life. The tensions and displacements embedded within global neoliberalism are nowhere more evident than in...
Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for ‘solving community problems’. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice...
by John Knight, Sai Ding
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
How has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkable rate - no less than ten per cent per annum - for over three decades? This well-integrated book combines economic theory, empirical estimation, and institutional analysis to address one of the most important questions facing contemporary...
The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface)
A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This classic work remains relevant to anyone with a serious interest in using household survey data...
Dynamics among Nations
The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An innovative view of the changing geopolitical landscape that draws on the science of complex adaptive systems to understand changes in global interaction.
Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of...
Vietnam 2035
Toward Prosperity, Creativity, Equity, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Thirty years of Ä?ổi Má»›i (economic renovation) reforms have catapulted Vietnam from the ranks of the world’s poorest countries to one of its great development success stories. Critical ingredients have been visionary leaders, a sense of shared societal purpose, and a focus on the future....
The Rise of Singapore
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: The Reasons for Singapore's SuccessVolume 2: Reflections on Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental journey in order that young Singaporeans students, visiting tourists and foreigners working in Singapore may be informed about why and how Singapore succeeded, despite tremendous odds. The two volumes...
Institutional Reform in Central Asia
Politico-Economic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms...
by Joseph Hanlon, Teresa Smart
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Is Mozambique an African success story? It has 7 percent a year growth rate and substantial foreign investment. Fifteen years after the war of destabilisation, the peace has held. Mozambique is the donors' model pupil, carefully following their prescriptions and receiving more than a billion dollars...
Employment, Inequality and Globalization
A Continuous Concern
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The nature of globalization and the fallout from the international financial crisis have brought profound changes to societies and economies around the world. This book documents that, over the last two decades, the growth of nonstandard and informal employment has led to greater inequalities. This...
States of the Indian Economy
Towards a Larger Constituency for Second Generation Economic Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
The phenomenal rise of India in the global economy has been attributed to a whole host of factors, the major ones being the focus on economic reforms and the demographic dividend that India currently enjoys due to its demographic transition. The large pool of human capital - a young, talented and...