Economic Development category: 2617 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
This book deals with the issues of democracy, development and discontent in the general context of South Asia and the specific contexts of the major countries of the region. Major challenges confronting democracy and development in South Asia—including the interface between multicultural identity,...
Conflict, Peace, Security and Development
Theories and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological...
The Global Emerging Market
Strategic Management and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Despite the growing importance of the global emerging market (GEM) for the world’s business, economies, and politics, it has received a relatively scant amount of academic attention in business and economics courses. This textbook is the first to focus on the GEM and its strategic and economic characteristics.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
UCLG’s Third Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) examines basic service provision and the current state-of-play of the local governance of basic services around the world.
Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World examines the enormous challenge of ensuring...
Regional Studies on Economic Growth, Financial Economics and Management
Proceedings of the 19th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This volume presents selected papers from the 19th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference held in Istanbul. Its primary emphasis is on showcasing the latest empirical research on social change, sustainable development and the management of public and private organizations in emerging...
2015 Agricultural Total Factor Productivity and Competitiveness Analysis for States and Federal Territories and Five Regions of India
Annual Competitiveness Update and Evidence on the Agricultural Development Models for Selected Indian States
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) undertakes rigorous empirical research relating to competitiveness of states and federal territories in India. The competitiveness framework employed by ACI computes the rankings for the 35 states and federal territories of India by factoring in...
Strategies for Achieving Sustained High Economic Growth
The Case of Indian States
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Strategies for Achieving Sustained High Economic Growth identifies the factors influencing countrywide economic growth and development by analysing the economic strategies and experiences of various Indian states. It employs a very broad range of analytical techniques to understand the growth patterns...
by UN Millennium Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Corruption is increasingly placed on top of the agenda of national governments and supra national institutions, such as the OECD, UN or the World Bank. A necessary condition for promoting sustainable economic growth is the pre-existence of a stable political system which is able to control corruption....
Multi-dimensional Review of Peru
Volume 2. In-depth Analysis and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Peru has experienced significant improvements in economic growth, well-being and poverty reduction since the introduction of macroeconomic reforms, economic openness and more effective social programmes in the 1990s. However, the country still faces structural challenges to escape the middle-income...
The Israeli Economy (Routledge Revivals)
Dreams and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1991, during a significant stagnation in the Israeli economy, this title discusses the causes of the economic downturn, and assesses the country’s prospects. Throughout, Aharoni measures the economic problems Israel has endured against the social and economic successes it has...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
From a renowned group of international scholars, this new work examines how leading economic countries use sport business, particularly individual sports events (such as the Olympics or FIFA Men’s or Women’s World Cup) as well as participant sport, in comprehensive plans toward driving and furthering...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Entrepreneurship and innovation have emerged globally as significant drivers for inclusive economic growth, contributing to both job and wealth creation. Especially since Egypt's 2011 revolution, the need has become pressing for novel models that capitalize on the country's human resources. Half of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Over the last 50 years, Dubai has transformed itself from a small fishing and trading village into an integrated, modern, and vibrant economy. The development process was initiated by oil richness but, unlike most other oil exporters, it has successfully diversified away from hydrocarbons with the...