Economic Development category: 2617 books

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What is Economic Development?

A Comparative Performance of Indian States

by Amit S. Ray, Manmohan Agarwal, M. Parameswaran
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019

Development performance is not merely economic growth and prosperity, but includes a multitude of goals. This monograph makes an attempt to conceptualize development, consisting of eight dimensions – material prosperity, education, health, economic security, personal security, environmental conditions,...
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Economic Development

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Marcelo M. Giugale
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments, development banks, think-tanks, academics, NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obvious reforms never happen? Why are prosperity and...
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by Tianyong Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013

Since its reform and opening up, China has experienced unprecedented social and economic development. It is important to understand the biggest and fastest growing economy's policy and strategy. As a key director in Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the author...
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by Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Jaime Ros
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years. Drawing on several years of in-depth research, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, two of the foremost experts on the Mexican economy, examine Mexico's current...
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The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

From neoliberalism to resource nationalism

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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016

The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource...
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Economic Growth and Development

A Dynamic Dual Economy Approach

by Alex Mourmouras, Peter C. Rangazas, Sibabrata Das
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015

Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical framework through which fundamental questions about economic development can be examined. This book is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development. Structural...
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Economic Development of Emerging East Asia

Catching Up of Taiwan and South Korea

by Frank S.T. Hsiao, Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017

Economic Development of Emerging East Asia presents economic studies of Taiwan and South Korea, compares them chiefly with Japan and the United States and finds that these East Asian countries are still in the process of emerging in the world economy. A timely quantitative and econometric analysis...
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by Min-Hua Chiang
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

South Korea's post-war economic success is a well-known story. However, its development in the past two decades is relatively less investigated. By reviewing key economic issues in South Korea's economy today, this book offers an input to the research of contemporary South Korea, in particular the...
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Moving Up the Ladder

Development Challenges for Low and Middle-Income Asia

by Shigesaburo Kabe, Ryuichi Ushiyama, Takuji Kinkyo;Shigeyuki Hamori
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016

Besides export expansion, a growing middle class in Asia has contributed to the area's economic expansion, providing Asian countries with a window of opportunity to leap from low/middle income levels to high income levels. It may sound easy for these countries to run up the ladder of economic growth,...
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by Hong Yu
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

The conventional belief that all regions have equally benefited from China’s remarkable development over the last three decades is subjected to criticism in this book as Hong Yu systematically analyses the issue of regional inequality during the post-1978 period using the case of Guangdong. Guangdong...
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Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development

Perspectives from the Less Developed World

by Mark P. Hampton
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant economic development impacts of backpacker tourism upon local communities especially in...
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by Jun Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013

China has quickly moved into a critical point in the sense that its past performance in economic growth and development has created so many unsolved problems, and for such problems to be addressed, a better understanding of these problems and a clear policy framework are required for policy makers...
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China's Logic

The Balance Development

by Lixing Zou
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

The law of balance is not just a motivating power but also serves the purpose of development. How did human society develop in a balanced manner in history? How is China's Modernization impacted by the law of equilibrium? How does the law of balance affect China's economic and trade relations with...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

One of the more perplexing problems of economic development is helping subsistence farmers break away from production simply for home consumption to become commercial farmers, producing more and more for sale in the marketplace. Although subsistence farms occupy 40 percent of the worlds cultivated...
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