Economic Development category: 2617 books
Reclaiming Development
An Alternative Economic Policy Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. Many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain within the international development policy establishment. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel confront this...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was forst published in 2000: An analysis of India’s development and public policy from the perspectives of five major fields of public policy. 1. Economic policy, including public policy toward industrial development. 2. Social policy, including religion, education and women’s rights....
Infrastructuring
The Key to Achieving Economic Growth, Productivity, and Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
The recent global financial crisis has intensified concerns over how nations—both developed and developing — can revitalize economic growth and ensure opportunity for prosperity to all citizens. Many analysts and policymakers alike are looking to new business creation and the promotion of entrepreneurial...
Innovation-Led Economic Growth
Transforming Tomorrow’s Developing Economies through Technology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Innovation and technology are increasingly at the heart of economic growth around the world and will be crucial tools for addressing emerging issues such as global urbanization and growing demand for food, energy, and water. In this report, CSIS and RTI International assess the challenges and opportunities...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they...
Power to the People
Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy...
Energy, Bio Fuels and Development
Comparing Brazil and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
This collection examines the important and topical issue of the economic, social and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. The book expertly examines this issue by focussing on the contrasting experiences of two major economies; one developed,...
by Khee Giap Tan, Sangiita Wei Cher Yoong, Sasidaran Gopalan;Le Phuong Anh Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
With the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in December 2015, ASEAN is at a crossroads once again. Having braved through various crises since its establishment in 1967, how can ASEAN leverage on increasing integration to maintain its growth momentum in the pursuit of greater competitiveness and...
Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development
Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book offers an innovative examination of how ‘low–technology’ industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In...
Small Enterprise Development in South-East Europe
Policies for Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, increasing attention has been paid to the problems of economic development and reconstruction in South-East Europe. In a context of limited resources, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have a key role to play in creating jobs and building a dynamic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book describes and analyzes the new problems and challenges faced by China's non-governmental enterprises. In the post-WTO era, which has been particularly affected by the international financial crisis, there will be many problems and challenges that need to be faced in the development of non-governmental...
The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics
Volume 2: Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved. These conditions are said to vary from...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent’s economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that...
Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900
The Quebec Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments delay...