Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
The Dynamics of Growth in Emerging Economies
The Case of Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
How can Turkey increase its medium- and long-term growth potential? Despite episodes of fast growth, this has become a vital question for the Turkish economy, in order to avoid being stuck in a middle-income trap. There has been an increase in the number of studies presenting growth in Turkey and...
The Price of Wealth
Economies and Institutions in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen,...
The Trouble with Aid
Why Less Could Mean More for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have joined campaigns to persuade their governments...
by Gwilliam Ken
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
This book presents and analyzes the results of a comprehensive collection of data on the extent and condition of transport infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa identifies the reasons for poor performance and estimates future financing needs.The transport facilities of Sub-Saharan Africa were built primarily...
by Jacob A. Riis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
First published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading...
by Yuen Yuen Ang
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world’s second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. In How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Yuen Yuen Ang explains...
The Future of Retail Financial Services
What Policy Mix For a Balanced Digital Transformation?
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In recent years, the digitalisation of retail financial services – retail payments, current/savings accounts, consumer/housing credit, car insurance, property insurance and health insurance – has accelerated significantly. While policy-makers are gradually creating the necessary conditions to...
The Power of Inaction
Bank Bailouts in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politics, and provoked widespread public outrage. In The Power of Inaction, Cornelia Woll details the varying...
by Brigitte Alepin
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2011
L'auteure relève les signes de la crise fiscale qui vient qui a déjà commencé dans la plupart des économies occidentales. Elle expose, de façon simple et éclairante, les conditions nouvelles qui aggravent cette crise : la multiplication des fondations caritatives, l'essor du commerce électronique,...
Estimation of Uncertainty of Wind Energy Predictions
With Application to Weather Routing and Wind Power Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Currently, a new generation of fuel-efficient ships, which use wind force in addition to conventional propulsion technology, is being developed. This study describes a mathematical method for a probabilistic estimate of the wind propulsion force on a ship route. The method is based on quantile regression,...
Working in China
Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond...
The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition
Multipolarity, Politics and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean is in transition. What is being evinced is a situation of continuous volatility, centering on developments such as the ’Arab Spring,’ the Greek sovereign debt crisis, Islamic terrorism, the continuation of deadlock over the Cypriot and Palestinian...
by Robert G. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes...
by Andreas Busch
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Does globalization erode the nation state's capacity to act? Are nation states forced to change their policies even if this goes against the democratic will of their electorates? How does government action change under conditions of globalization? Questions like these have not only featured highly...