Economic Development category: 2617 books
Taken For A Ride
Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence its shape and changes in it over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide public transport in Dar es Salaam? These...
by Nabli Mustapha K.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The 2008-09 financial crisis which originated in the United States and rapidly spread to the rest of world resulting in the most severe and intense Great Recession since World War II has posed new challenges for international policy coordination and the management of national economies. Questions are...
Beyond the Developmental State
Industrial Policy into the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes. *BR**BR*Through this approach, the contributors show the close interrelation...
Realizing the Urban Potential in Georgia
National Urban Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This publication details the rapid assessment of the urban sector in Georgia to understand key urbanization trends and patterns of growth and to analyze challenges and opportunities. It gives a snapshot of the state of urban affairs at the national level with an urbanization profile, governance and...
Urban Poverty in the Global South
Scale and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of...
by T.N. Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This book includes insightful lectures by eminent economist T.N. Srinivasan on the origins, rationale, and outcomes of India's economic reforms. The book will be invaluable for students and teachers of macroeconomics, Indian economy, development economics, and finance.
India's Long Road
The Search for Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
India's economic resurgence has been the subject of many extravagant predictions and hopes. In this powerful and wide-ranging book, distinguished economist Vijay Joshi lays out a penetrating analysis of the shaky foundations of the country's performance, and charts the course that it should follow...
by Christina Perkins, Erin Nealer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Northern Triangle of Latin America, consisting of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, has experienced overwhelming challenges to economic growth and development. Gang violence is the root of many of these challenges, and the cost of hiring security forces for individuals and businesses creates...
World Development Report 2018
Learning to Realize Education's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is right: education has long been critical to human welfare,...
Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy
The Framework, Methodology, and Results of the International Comparison Program (ICP)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy: The Framework, Methodology, and Results of the International Comparison Program-ICP is the most comprehensive accounting ever presented by the International Comparison Program (ICP) of the theory and methods underlying the estimation of purchasing power parities...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Internet has been remarkably successful in developing greater opportunities for communication access - and economic growth and social development - for the first billion users. The majority of the next several billion users will be mainly from developing countries and will connect to the Internet...
Seaports and Development
The Experience of Kenya and Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book, originally published in 1983, demonstrates the importance of seaports in the growth of less-developed countries. The author focuses on the character of port activity within the context of transport systems and regional economic planning. General principles of port development are illustrated...
European Union Trade Politics and Development
'Everything but Arms' Unravelled
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
The ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) regulation of the European Union (EU) has been hailed as a groundbreaking initiative for developing countries. Since 2001 EBA grants almost completely liberalized access to the European market for products from the least-developed countries (LDCs). It quickly became...
Transition Economics
Two Decades On
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes...