Economic Development category: 2617 books
Islam Instrumentalized
Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of economic development in the countries in which it dominates? In his nuanced approach, Platteau challenges the widespread view that the doctrine of Islam...
Evaluating Communication for Development
A Framework for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and evaluation...
New Media and International Development
Representation and affect in microfinance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
New Media and International Development is the first in-depth examination of microfinance’s enduring popularity with Northern publics. Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international...
by Neil E. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century. How can human civilization continue to develop without destroying the natural systems on which it depends?Environmentalists tell us that capitalism is the problem because it feeds our self-interest. They tell us that we have to...
Sharing the World
Sustainable Living and Global Equity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This work proposes a framework based on the concept of a fair distribution of environmental space to include the diverse needs of North and South. Drawing on research in 38 countries, it aims to give an equitable basis for global development in order to achieve sustainable consumption by the year...
Whither China?
Restarting the Reform Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy? What are the challenges that China faces today and how will she deal with them...
by Elizabeth A. Ramey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles developed during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory...
by Willem Molle
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The major problems the world faces have increased since the turn of the millennium. Recurrent storms on the financial markets have ravaged many countries, poverty is still widespread, notwithstanding decades of massive development aid, the environment remains in acute jeopardy and the major world...
The WTO and Infant Industry Promotion in Developing Countries
Perspectives on the Chinese Large Civil Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The charter of the World Trade Organization (WTO) sets the tone that sustainable trade and economic development dominates multilateral trade negotiation and specific working agreements. This book examines the novel challenge for developing countries to upgrade and optimize their industrial structure...
by Thierry Aimar, Francis Bismans, Claude Diebolt
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book analyzes the development of economic cycles in the run of history. The focus is on the development of cycle theory, with maximum emphasis upon ideas. Chapter 1 delivers an overview of the debate about cycles before the 1970s. Chapter 2 completes this survey by presenting the main empirical...
by Chong-en Bai, Qiong Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
After impressive growth of about 10% per annum for three decades, China's visible signs of economic slowdown since 2008 have been subject to much contention. What causes the deceleration? What should we expect in an era of China's 6% growth? This book answers these questions in three parts.
Although...
The World in 2050
Striving for a More Just, Prosperous, and Harmonious Global Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The world economy has, over the past half century, become increasingly intertwined, and countries mutually dependent. The convergence of emerging market economies (EMEs) with the advanced, richer ones has led to dramatic transformation—where the former have sustained growth rates far higher than...
Globalizing Rural Development
Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Ever since rural development emerged as an independent field of inquiry in the 1950s, it has been subjected to many changes in emphasis and ideology. These changing perspectives have resulted in shifts in policies and programmes and have influenced the international discourse on rural development....
The Economies of China and India
Cooperation and Conflict(In 3 Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
China and India, the two largest developing countries, are developing rapidly both inside themselves and towards global markets. Are these two economies dual or dueling? This 3-volume set tries to answer this question by providing comprehensive analyses scoping varied economic issues.
This...