Economic Development category: 2617 books
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The sixty-fourth edition of the Economic Survey is divided into four chapters. The first chapter reviews the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean during the first half of 2012, against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown and heightened uncertainty as to prospects for growth...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2017
A Fragile Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Global activity is firming broadly as expected. Manufacturing and trade are picking up, confidence is improving, international financing conditions remain benign, and commodity prices are stabilizing. Growth in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) is set to recover, as obstacles to growth...
One Economics, Many Recipes
Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local...
After the Spring:Economic Transitions in the Arab World
Economic Transitions in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The Arab Spring constitutes perhaps the most far-reaching political and economic transition since the end of communism in Europe. For too long, the economic aspirations of the people in the region, especially young people, have been ignored by leaders in Arab countries and abroad. Competing views...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing ‘neo-Schumpeterian’ research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution. Much of modern evolutionary economics has relied upon biological analogy,...
Legacies, Logics, Logistics
Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Legacies, Logics, Logistics brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007–08, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined theme. When they are brought together and interpreted...
The Causes of Economic Growth
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
What are the causes of economic growth? As billions of people still live in poverty, this is perhaps the most important question in human science. It is also a very complex one, as rates of economic growth are influenced by a multitude of economic as well as political, geographical and sociological...
Putting Partnerships to Work
Strategic Alliances for Development between Government, the Private Sector and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg clearly identified the corporate sector as one of the key actors in the delivery of national and international poverty reduction targets in developing countries. "Partnerships" between government, civil society and business were...
Global Economic Prospects, January 2018
Broad-Based Upturn, but for How Long?
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The global economy is in a broad-based cyclical recovery. Investment, manufacturing and trade are on the rebound. Financing conditions are benign, monetary policies are generally accommodative, and the worst impacts of the recent commodity price collapse have begun to dissipate. However, the global...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2016
Divergences and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Global growth prospects have deteriorated in 2016. Emerging market and developing economies are facing increased external headwinds, including softer growth in advanced economies. Commodity exporters are struggling with particularly challenging conditions, while commodity importers are thus far showing...
by Damian Nwosu
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Economic Cycle and Growth, grade: M.Phil/PhD, University of Ibadan, course: Economis, language: English, abstract: This study examined the relationship between tax structure and economic growth in Nigeria using annual data between 1970...
Law and the Wealth of Nations
Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Economic stagnation, financial crisis, and increasing inequality have provoked worldwide debate about the reshaping of the market economy. But few are willing to risk a reorientation of dominant ideas and a reform of entrenched structures. Right-wing populism has stepped into the void created by a...
The Economic Decoding of Religious Dogmas
Ranking World Religions in Terms of Economic Consistency
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book proves that each religious dogma, in any of their components, contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega-objectives, implicitly, a specific preference for absolute wealth or, in a more common parlance, for the objective of economic performance. In turn,...
The Stages of Economic Growth
A Non-Communist Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1991
This third edition of The Stages of Economic Growth, first published in 1991, has a new preface and appendix, Professor Rostow extends his analysis to include economic and political developments as well as the advances in theory concerning nonlinear and chaotic phenomena. For those coming to his work...