Economic Development category: 2617 books

Cover of Development Economics in the Twenty-First Century
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015

Development Economics has been identified as a homogeneous body of theory since the 1950s, concerned both with the study of development issues and with the shaping of more effective policies for less advanced economies. Development Economics in the Twenty-First Century brings together an international...
Cover of Economic Development in East Asia
by E. Stuart Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

First published in 1967, this influential study reviews the economic development of 15 countries from East Asia in the period between 1945 and 1965. It deals with a wide variety of factors influencing the development of the region, including the influence of foreign governments (both international...
Cover of The Community Economic Development Handbook

The Community Economic Development Handbook

Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Your Neighborhood

by Mihailo Temali
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2002

The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around A weak local economy can be strengthened. A run-down neighborhood of boarded-up storefronts, litter-strewn sidewalks, high unemployment, and poorly-maintained housing can be transformed. An entire community can be lifted up. Mihailo (Mike)...
Cover of Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank
by Ernesto Vivares
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial...
Cover of The Local Impact of Globalization in South and Southeast Asia

The Local Impact of Globalization in South and Southeast Asia

Offshore business processes in services industries

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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or ‘offshored’ from the US and Europe to, in particular, low cost economies around the world. Most of these jobs so far have landed in South and South-East Asia, with India and the Philippines receiving the...
Cover of Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008

This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development. As a new and rapidly expanding subfield at the interface of environmental/ecological, agricultural and development economics, the editors...
Cover of 2015 Annual Competitiveness Analysis, Agricultural Productivity and Development Vision for ASEAN-10
by Khee Giap Tan, Le Phuong Anh Nguyen, Sasidaran Gopalan;Trieu Duong Luu Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

In the tradition of the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS), our research publications make a distinctive contribution to the understanding of economic development in Asia by evaluating and tracking competitiveness...
Cover of Socio-Economic Development
by Adam Szirmai
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015

Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This non-technical introduction to development studies explores the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation in developing...
Cover of Strategic Infrastructure Development for Economic Growth and Social Change
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015

Obtaining the ultimate objective of economic growth depends largely on the availability of infrastructure in the economy. New developments in finance also play an important role in enhancing economic prosperity in a country. Strategic Infrastructure Development for Economic Growth and Social Change explores...
Cover of Unleashing Economic Growth

Unleashing Economic Growth

Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal

by KyeongAe Choe, Pushkar Pradhan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

The book provides an overview of the economic, political, and social environment in Nepal and the challenges confronting the country in eliciting its economic growth potential. The book provides an insightful framework of an inclusive development strategy in the context of symbiotic relationships...
Cover of Developmental State and Millennium Development Goals
by Kartik Roy, Sandip Kar
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

Prior to the 2016 Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations (UN) had eight "global goals" set out to all 191 UN member states at that time, and at least 22 international organizations. Seven out of the eight United National Millennium Development Goals are social goals. The attainment...
Cover of Critical Issues in Asset Building in Singapore's Development
by S Vasoo, Bilveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018

Singapore's progress as an independent nation and the uplifting of its people's livelihood have been made possible by stable social and political conditions. A more important factor in driving these positive changes lies with people-centric leadership. One can contrast the case of Singapore with societies...
Cover of Taxation and Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)
by John F. J. Toye
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013

The tax system is one of the instruments said to be available to translate development policy objectives into practice. The wide-ranging papers collected together in this volume, first published in 1978, explore different aspects of the link between national development objectives and the tax system....
Cover of A History of Development Economics Thought

A History of Development Economics Thought

Challenges and Counter-challenges

by Shahrukh Rafi Khan
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics. Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew inspiration from classical political economists, this book opens with a review...
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