Economic Development category: 2617 books

Cover of The Southeast Asian Economic Miracle
by Young Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

There is widespread agreement that the world's most successful developing countries in the 1980s were those in Southeast Asia. Following in the footsteps of postwar Japan and more recently Korea, the populations of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have made...
Cover of South Asian Economic Development
by Moazzem Hossain, Rajat Kathuria, Iyanatul Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009

South Asia's developing nations have been enjoying moderate to high growth over the past decade before the global recession began. This new edition provides an up-to-date guide to the growing markets in South Asia. It offers an analysis of the changes and consequences of high sustainable growth, investigating...
Cover of Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited: Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World
by Bruno Losch, Sandrine Freguin-Gresh, Eric Thomas White
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

This book makes a compelling case for reintegrating structural issues into agricultural and rural development policies, which have for the last 30 years over-focused on short-term issues. It shows how the liberalization of agriculture in many late developing countries has not in fact led to the development...
Cover of Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Russia
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019

Russia is one of the world's largest growing economies. With this exciting new growth and development, there is a wealth of knowledge to be discovered from the strategies and models being used and created throughout Russia’s economy. Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Russia portrays...
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Deals and Development

The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes

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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth...
Cover of Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

New developments in socio-economics aid in increased productivity of manufacturing. These advances result in long-term improvement of competitiveness and innovation. The Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development is an essential reference...
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Gender Inequality

Socioeconomic Analysis and Developing Country Case Studies

by Clement A Tisdell
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019

This unique book provides an easily comprehended overview of facts about gender inequality and contains a valuable introduction to economic theories of this inequality, the applicability of which is assessed in the light of empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is its adoption of a multidisciplinary...
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Capital Women

The European Marriage Pattern, Female Empowerment and Economic Development in Western Europe 1300-1800

by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine De Moor, Sarah Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019

How women increasingly became economic agents in early modern Europe is the focus of this stimulating book, which highlights how female agency was crucial for understanding the development of the Western European economy and sheds light on economic development today. Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine De...
Cover of Vanuatu Economic Report 2009

Vanuatu Economic Report 2009

Accelerating Reform

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

Over the last several years, Vanuatu has become one of the fastest growing economies in the Pacific region driven primarily by tourism, construction, and aid inflows. The achievement of strong economic growth has also occurred on the back of improved economic policy, effective fiscal management, and...
Cover of Social Structure and Mobility in Economic Development
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

The foundation of this volume is the notion that the several processes of change constituting economic and social development are systematically interrelated. The essence of development is the appearance of rapid rates of increases in many different indices--output per capita, political participation,...
Cover of Employment and Development

Employment and Development

How Work Can Lead From and Into Poverty

by Gary S. Fields
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018

Employment and Development brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary S. Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. Most of the poor in developing countries live in households in which people work, but still they are poor because the best...
Cover of Cultures of Development

Cultures of Development

Vietnam, Brazil and the Unsung Vanguard of Prosperity

by Jonathan Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failure, the few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by rejecting the advice of Western experts....
Cover of Culture and Politics in Economic Development
by Volker Bornschier
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005

In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries. The book is a...
Cover of Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development

Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development

Contrasting Theories and Realities

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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012

Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive development...
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