Economic Development category: 2617 books
Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development
Contemporary Analysis and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development adopts a non-Eurocentric approach towards good governance issues in Asia and Africa on practical and theoretical levels. Edited by R N Ghosh and M A B Siddique, this volume features contributions from distinguished scholars and policy makers who...
Economic Complexity and Human Development (Open Access)
How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.
While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex...
Global Economic Crisis and Local Economic Development
International cases and policy responses
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book offers a collaborative investigation of the policies and practices which have redeveloped local and national economies in the aftermath of the global economic crisis which erupted in 2008. It explores 'localised' models of economic development, including problems of diversity and balance...
Economic Analyses Using the Overlapping Generations Model and General Equilibrium Growth Accounting for the Japanese Economy
Population, Agriculture and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
This unique book contains novel and in-depth research regarding economic development in Japan. The authors examine economic development in Japan from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Using general equilibrium growth accounting and the overlapping generations model, they analyze the relationships...
Inclusive Growth and Development in the 21st Century
A Structural and Institutional Analysis of China and India
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Using case studies of both China and India, this book reinforces the fact that the processes of economic growth and development are dynamic and organic in the sense that structural and institutional elements are not only interrelated, but also constantly changing in their patterns of interactions...
Growing Jobs: Transforming the Way We Approach Economic Development
Transforming the Way We Approach Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Each year, U.S. cities and states spend billions of dollars on incentives intended to create jobs. Are the strategies being implemented outdated? Is there a better way to create jobs? Rather than focusing on individual aspects of economic development such as entrepreneurship and start-up companies...
by Peter N. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living and the alleviation of poverty. Sustainable development, popularly and concisely defined as ‘meeting the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability...
Japan and Asia
Economic Development and Nation Building
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
The book is a precious reference book for development economics or the political economy of development in Asia or anywhere else. Unlike other books, first, it deals with all the East Asian countries, including Japan and other Asian countries. Second, it offers some empirical research findings based...
by Joseph Pelzman
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a large, complex, and diverse region, which faces a wide range of economic issues. The MENA group includes Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey,...
China's Rise
Development-Oriented Finance and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
As a government institution specializing in development-oriented finance, the China Development Bank (CDB) has combined advanced international financial theories with China's practical conditions and has done remarkably well in removing financing bottlenecks, establishing market credit systems, and...
Governance Institutions and Economic Development
Emerging China, India, East Asia and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
"Roy's book is a rich and detailed study of various facets of economic and social development in ten countries, both democratic and authoritarian. Researchers and students will find here a wealth of information and statistics that can be mined to explore fundamental questions around state interventionism...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Recurrent crises in emerging markets and in advanced economies in the last decades cast doubt about the ability of financial liberalization to meet the aims of sustainable economic growth and development. The increasing importance of financial markets and financial efficiency criterion over economic...
New Paradigm for Interpreting the Chinese Economy
Theories, Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Since the reform and opening up in 1978, the Chinese economy has grown rapidly. China has become the focus of the world due to its astonishing achievements in every aspect of its economical growth. The country's transformation process has witnessed unprecedented social and economic phenomena and the...
by P. T. Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Professor Bauer’s book, first published in 1961, reviews the major elements of contemporary official Indian development policy, considers their economic implications and their probable political and economic results. He then examines alternative approaches to the promotion of development. The development...