Economic Development category: 2617 books

Cover of The Haitian Economy (Routledge Revivals)
by Mats Lundahl
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015

Haiti is a very poor country with a stagnant economy. This title, first published in 1983, considers the Haitian economy, placing it in its historical context, and explores the reasons why it has performed so badly. Mats Lundahl examines agriculture, which has failed to provide an adequate standard...
Cover of Empowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa
by Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Tazeen Hasan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012

The importance of property rights in providing the incentive to invest, work hard, and innovate has been recognized for centuries. Yet, many women in Africa do not have the same property rights or formal legal capacity enjoyed by men. Empowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa...
Cover of Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability
by David de la Croix
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

Fertility choices depend not only on the surrounding culture but also on economic incentives, which have important consequences for inequality, education and sustainability. This book outlines parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality...
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High-Growth Firms

Facts, Fiction, and Policy Options for Emerging Economies

by Arti Grover Goswami, Denis Medvedev, Ellen Olafsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019

Remarkably, a small fraction of firms account for most of the job and output creation in high-income and developing countries alike. Does this imply that the path to enabling more economic dynamism lies in selectively targeting high-potential firms? Or would pursuing broad-based reforms that minimize...
Cover of Global Economic Prospects, January 2015

Global Economic Prospects, January 2015

Having Fiscal Space and Using It

by World Bank Publications
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015

As in previous years, global growth disappointed in 2014, but a lackluster recovery is underway, with increasingly divergent prospects in major economies and developing countries. Looking ahead, growth is expected to rise slowly, supported by continued recovery in highincome countries, low oil prices,...
Cover of The Dynamics of New Firm Formation
by Vinod Sutaria
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

This title was first published in 2001. The dynamics of New Firm Formation (NFF) are central to the phenomenon of economic growth and development. While the economic importance of NFF has been recognized, the mechanisms that drive NFF are not well documented or understood. Illustrated by an in-depth...
Cover of Institutional Economics

Institutional Economics

An Introduction

by Stefan Voigt
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019

Why is it that some countries become rich while others remain poor? Do markets require regulation to function efficiently? If markets offer an efficient way of exchanging goods, why do individuals even create firms? How are economic transactions organized in the absence of a state that could enforce...
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The Restoration Economy

The Greatest New Growth Frontier

by Storm Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2002

The Restoration Economy reveals the previously undocumented trillion-dollar global industries that are restoring our natural and manmade environments. Restorative development is rapidly overtaking new development because we are running out of things to develop. Most natural areas are already either...
Cover of Everything in Its Place

Everything in Its Place

Entrepreneurship and the Strategic Management of Cities, Regions, and States

by David B. Audretsch
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015

Every city, region and state wants to do better---or at the very least, not do worse. Places have a strong and vigorous concern with and stake in generating a stronger economic performance. This concern spans a broad spectrum of constituents and interests, including business, labor, non-profit organizations,...
Cover of Light Manufacturing in Africa: Targeted Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Jobs
by Hinh T. Dinh, Vincent Palmade, Vandana Chandra
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012

This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries....
Cover of Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story

Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story

Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century

by Peter H. Lindert
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004

Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations from using...
Cover of The Great Equalizer

The Great Equalizer

How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone

by David Smick
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick-hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller The World...
Cover of How America Was Financed

How America Was Financed

The True Story of Northeastern Pennsylvania's Contribution to the Financial and Economic Greatness of the United States of America

by Thomas W. Dombroski
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011

The author has created an interpretive document detailing the contributions of North East Pennsylvania to the greatness of the United States of America resulting in an economic, financial, and political revitalization of the U.S.A. The book details the accidental and deliberate things that...
Cover of The BRIC Road to Growth
by Jim O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013

The idea that Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRICs") are the rising stars of the world economy is now widely accepted. However, the "old" developed nations have not adjusted to the new world order as they struggle with the legacy of the financial crisis. The BRICs and others...
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