Economic Development list 36

Climate-Resilient Development

Participatory solutions from developing countries

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current...

State Capitalism in Eurasia

by Martin C Spechler, Joachim Ahrens, Herman W Hoen
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017

This is the first book to specify the type of economic system that has arisen in Central Asia, replacing the simplistic ideas of "petro-state" or "resource dependent." The book presents three types of state capitalism now established in the former Soviet Union states of...

Economic History of Energy and Environment

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia. This...

Prioritizing Development

A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018

This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid between 2016 and 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn...

Economic Development, Education and Transnational Corporations

by Mark Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007

This book focuses on the questions of: why do some economically disadvantaged nations develop significantly faster than others, and what roles do their educational systems play? In the early 1960s Mexico and South Korea were both equally underdeveloped agrarian societies. Since that time, the development strategies pursued by each country resulted

Beyond Demographic Dividends

by Fang Cai
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013

This book presents empirical observations and theoretical thinking of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economy. It starts with a warning of the arrival of the Lewis Turning Point, which is empirically proven by disappearance of surplus labor force and a rapid increase in wages of unskilled workers....

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

Volume 1: Context and Concepts

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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015

For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not...

Technological Systems and Industrial Dynamics

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

This volume consitutes a summary of several years' multi-disciplinary research by a group of Swedish researchers. The project 'Sweden's Technological Systems and Future Development Potential' was initiated by the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK) and has been...

Cognitive Capitalism

Human Capital and the Wellbeing of Nations

by Heiner Rindermann
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018

Nations can vary greatly in their wealth, democratic rights and the wellbeing of their citizens. These gaps are often obvious, and by studying the flow of immigration one can easily predict people's wants and needs. But why are there also large differences in the level of education indicating disparities...

The Economics of the Global Response to HIV/AIDS

by Markus Haacker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades. The book illustrates the devastating health impacts of the epidemic, with life expectancy in some countries falling to the lowest levels observed anywhere, and the remarkable...

Yunnan-A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia

A Case Study of China’s Political and Economic Relations with its Neighbours

by Tim Summers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

The Chinese Government’s five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for ‘opening the country’ to southeast Asia and south Asia. Yunnan - A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia traces the dynamic process which...

Rethinking Capitalist Development

Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism

by Kalyan Sanyal
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014

In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context. In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation...

The Economics of Oil

A Primer Including Geology, Energy, Economics, Politics

by S.W. Carmalt
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016

This book examines the ways that oil economics will impact the rapidly changing global economy, and the oil industry itself, over the coming decades. The predictions of peak oil were both right and wrong. Oil production has been constrained in relation to demand for the past decade, with a resulting...