Development Growth category: 1653 books
Urban Composite Development Index for 17 Shandong Cities
Ranking and Simulation Analysis Based on China's Five Development Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Shandong is a thriving economic centre with a Gross Regional Domestic Product of RMB 6.3 trillion in 2015, the third-highest in China. It is also the third-largest province by land area in the country with the second-largest resident population of 98,470,000. With such impressive characteristics,...
by James Cypher
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of development economics and development studies.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely supplementary to traditional industry and manufacturing, services have generated progressively rising levels of growth in developed economies while at the...
Irish Economic Development
High-performing EU State or Serial Under-achiever?
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book offers a discerning narrative on the spectacular rise and fall of the so-called Celtic Tiger economy. It depicts Ireland as a micro-state with a unique reliance on foreign-assisted businesses, driven in part by a favourable taxation regime. It shows that rent-seeking by trades unions and...
Development Effectiveness Report 2013
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The private sector contributes to economic development by generating jobs and incomes, as well as through investments, new technologies, knowledge transfer, and enhanced productivity. This is particularly true in Asia and the Pacific, where much of the recent success in reducing poverty has been due...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
The future prosperity of most people of the Middle-East and North Africa and the social cohesion of their countries rests in great part on the ability of governments to enable the private sector to respond to this job creation challenge. This is what this report is about. It is about enabling the new...
Fragments of Development
Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
By tracing out the intersection between the imagined space of the national economy and the gendered construction of "expert" knowledge in development thought, Suzanne Bergeron provides a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice. By elaborating a framework of including/excluding...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Although China is now the ‘factory of the world’, there is no reason to expect that it will always be content with manufacturing labor-intensive goods for foreign corporations. Scholars must now ask: What is the current level of innovation in China? And how can we face this challenge and renovate...
Asian Development Review
Volume 28, Number 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The Asian Development Review is a professional journal for disseminating the results of economic and development research carried out by staff and resource persons of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Review seeks high-quality papers with relevance to policy issues and operational matters done...
Economics of Planning Policies in China
Infrastructure, Location and Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid – albeit geographically uneven – local and regional economic growth during the past few decades. Notwithstanding this development pattern, China has been investing heavily in targeted coastal and inland regions through planning policies...
Pacing for Growth
Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-term Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
**Go the Distance!
Whether you're running a race or running a company, pacing is everything. Go too fast and you'll burn yourself out—too slow and you're left in the dust. So how can leaders find the right speed? Growth expert Alison Eyring, who is also a long-distance runner and triathlete,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Regional growth in the European Union hinges to a large extent on smart specialization, a new and exciting theme in economic innovation studies. Advances in the Theory and Practice of Smart Specialization illuminates problems that have stifled the implementation of smart specialization policies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
While endogenous growth theory has claimed success in modeling various factors of growth and providing an analysis of sustainable economic growth, most of the growth models in published work are for closed economies. The omission of international trade, which is often regarded as the engine of growth,...
Growth Curve Modeling
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Features recent trends and advances in the theory and techniques used to accurately measure and model growth
Growth Curve Modeling: Theory and Applications features an accessible introduction to growth curve modeling and addresses how to monitor the change in variables over time since there...