Economic Development category: 2617 books
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The World Bank South Asia Economic Update 2010 is the World Bank's comprehensive review of the region's economies. In this first pilot edition, the Bank finds that the region experienced the least reduction in growth during the crisis compared to other developing regions, a result of resilient...
Sustainability in Transition
Principles for Developing Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner. The textbook is structured as a learning-centered approach to walk students through the process of linking sustainable...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Asia constitutes a large portion of the world's population and this new book provides a good selection of contributions that cover trade, equity and development in the continent. With contributions from such leading experts as Clem Tisdell, T.N. Srinivasan and Gustav Ranis, the book's chapters cover...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
At the thirty-third session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which was held in Brasilia in 2010, member States adopted a resolution entrusting the secretariat with a new mandate to continue to analyse, in collaboration with other international and regional intergovernmental...
by Fardoust Shahrokh; Kim Yongbeom; Sepúlveda Claudia Paz
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
The Korea-World Bank High Level Conference on Post-Crisis Growth and Development held in June 2010 in Busan Republic of Korea successfully brought key development issues to the forefront laid the groundwork for setting global development priorities and advanced the discussion among the international...
World Development Report 2015
Mind, Society, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that humans...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The Little Data Book on Gender in Africa 2012/13 provides a summary collection of gender statistics on Africa available in one volume. It contains 60 indicators, covering 53 African countries. Additional data may be found on the companion CD-ROM or online, covering about 1,700 indicators from 1961 to...
Straight Talk on Trade
Ideas for a Sane World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today’s global economy
Not so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled...
Digital Technologies for Democratic Governance in Latin America
Opportunities and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book is the first to comprehensively analyse the political and societal impacts of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a region of the Global South. It evaluates under what conditions some Latin American governments and people have succeeded in taking up the opportunities...
Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against...
Encountering Development
The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development...
Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?
The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Since its emergence in the 1970s, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty in developing and transition countries. It is beloved of rock stars, movie stars, royalty, high-profile politicians and ‘troubleshooting’ economists. In this provocative...
by Stephany Griffith-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
This reissue, initially published in 1984, examines the evolution of international financial flows to Latin America since 1945, along with their implications for National Development . The book describes how, in each of the first three decades since the war, a new agency emerged (foreign investors...
China’s Economic Growth Prospects
From Demographic Dividend To Reform Dividend
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
In this book Cai Fang explores the contribution of demographic transition to economic growth in China’s reform period, depicts the population factors causing the economic slowdown since the second decade of the twenty-first century, analyses the challenges facing its long-term sustainability when the...