Economic Development category: 2617 books
The Science of Science Policy
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being. Yet science policy debates have long been dominated by advocates for particular scientific fields or missions. In the absence of a deeper understanding of the...
by Lewis F Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Theories of the Labour Market and Employment: A Review
This is a detailed and wide-ranging study of theory, research and methods of analyzing labour markets and employment.
Free and flexible labour markets can automatically end both labour surpluses (unemployment) and labour shortages...
Public Debt, Sustainability and Economic Growth
Theory and Empirics
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Public debt has become a severe problem for a great many economies. While the effects of tax policies on the allocation of resources are readily derived, the mechanisms that make public deficits and debt influence the economy are not so easily understood. This book elaborates on the effects of public...
India Booms
The Breathtaking Development and Influence of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
The ancient birthplace of some of the world's major religions and now a modern nuclear power, India is experiencing spectacular economic growth. In twenty-five years its population will overtake that of China, making it one of the most populous and rapidly-developing countries in the world. We all...
by Adolfo Figueroa
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book uses Figueroa’s unified theory of capitalism to explain how economic growth has led to a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and it presents a new set of economic principles that are needed in this new age. The policies presented in the book are derived from an empirically corroborated scientific...
Get off the Grass
Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In a brilliant intellectual adventure that ranges from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan explore how New Zealanders can learn to live off knowledge rather than nature. The key to increasing New Zealand's prosperity,...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The report highlights the continued challenge posed by high unemployment rates in many economies and outlines a number of risks and uncertainties for the economic outlook such as a premature withdrawal of policy stimulus, increased exchange rate volatility and a renewed widening of global imbalances....
China’S Dance with the Foreign Devils
Foreign Companies and the Industrial Development of China
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Since 1978 in China, foreign direct investment has served as a driver of change that has brought the country into the modern economic world.
Mao Zedong had shut out the foreign devilsEuropeans, Japanese, Americans and other outsiders. He created chaos in an economy that was long on suffering...
Left Behind
Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean...
Environmental Justice in Developing Countries
Perspectives from Africa and Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The evolving environmental justice paradigm is conceptualized differently based on political, economic and historical factors. In developed countries, emphasis is placed on the role of individuals in environmental decision-making and the protection of their access to the prerequisite environmental...
by Arup Mitra
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on. It begins by examining the sectoral composition of growth, revisiting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The right to education has become the single most important agenda in the context of India`s development today, and this book addresses the issues that characterise the crisis in elementary education in the country. Bringing together diverse perspectives and analyses from scholars, activists and administrators,...
Understanding Policy Change
How to Apply Political Economy Concepts in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
How does the social and political context in which decision-makers find themselves in affect their ability to realize their reform goals? How does this context facilitate or inhibit specific reform agendas and projects? How can we operationalize and evaluate these risks and opportunities in order to...
Better Policies for Sustainable Development 2016
A New Framework for Policy Coherence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This report introduces the Framework for Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) - a screening tool that aims to support governments in designing and implementing coherent policies. It explores policy coherence in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and suggests...