Economic Development category: 2617 books
Crisis and Migration
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Crisis and migration have a long association, in popular and policy discourse as well as in social scientific analysis. Despite the emergence of more nuanced and even celebratory accounts of mobility in recent years, there remains a persistent emphasis on migration being either a symptom or a cause...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank’s commitment to improving aid effectiveness. The assessment of three loans in Viet Nam found that positive gender equality results were achieved due to the implementation of gender action...
Young Generation Awakening
Economics, Society, and Policy on the Eve of the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism. Specifically,...
by Zhang Weiying
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Since the reform and opening up period, the world has witnessed a transformation within China. This transformation has led millions out of poverty within China and has in recent years seen China as an important and vital engine of economic growth for the rest of the world. While China has made great...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A fundamental question about contemporary Africa is why does Africa remain so poor, long after the departure of the European Colonial domination and in the midst of so many natural resources?
Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa provides new understandings of the persistent issue of poverty...
The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus
Political Economies and Rural Realities of (un)Comfortable Bedfellows
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions. Existing academic and policy literatures generally overlook the phenomenon of ecotourism in areas concurrently affected...
Inequality
Trends, Causes, Consequences, Relevant Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book is the fifteenth volume in the renowned International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy. Containing contributions by experts in the field, this book focuses on topics that address the ongoing debate of inequalities in economic...
The Capability Approach
Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range...
by Guozuo Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This is the first theoretical book on Chinese Cultural Soft Power. It focuses on the inner logical relations between Chinese cultural soft power and the realization of the China Dream, while also offering detailed explanations of the scope of and essential questions concerning Chinese cultural soft...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Efficiency is the hallmark of environmental economics, and though economists are concerned with the environment, primarily because it challenges the efficiency of competitive markets, until now, limited attention has been paid to distributional issues. This excellent collection of essays identifies...
Anti-Poverty Land Reform Issues Never Die
Collected essays on development economics in practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
What can we do to unlock the unrealised potential of the hundreds of millions of rural poor and landless workers?
The ever-topical central theme in this collection of essays is the mixed role of government and the institutionally regulated market in tackling rural poverty and land distribution...
The Laws and Economics of Confucianism
Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English preindustrial economic development went down different paths. The dominance...
by Robert Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future.
This book breaks...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Growth perspectives in emerging market economies are increasingly dependent on international capital flows in recent decades because of their influences on business cycles. In fact, volatile international capital flows has been one of the main concerns for the macroeconomic policy authorities. Focusing...