Economic Development category: 2617 books
Trade, Investment and Economic Development in Asia
Empirical and policy issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In an era of globalization, trade in goods and cross-border services and capital flows play a key role in determining the economic growth path of countries. Over the last two decades, countries have embarked on several alternate tracks to liberalize and deepen their linkage with the world economy....
International Policy Rules and Inequality
Implications for Global Economic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Over the past decades, the world has seen a dramatic increase in inequality. To what extent have the rules that govern the global economy, formally or informally, affected this trend? How can global governance arrangements be reformed to counteract them?
In this book, an interdisciplinary group...
by Khee Giap Tan, Nurina Merdikawati, Mulya Amri;Kong Yam Tan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book is the only annual study that dissects Indonesia's sub-national competitiveness at both the provincial level (covering 34 provinces) and the regional level (covering six major island groups). Based on a rich dataset of 103 indicators, the study covers four environments of competitiveness:...
Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development
Learning Journeys in Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined. Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development examines ways in which resilience may be created within the web of ecological, socio-economic...
Crisis as Conquest
Learning from East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
To what extent does the East Asian experience provide us with a viable model of economic development? This tract seeks to answer this through a careful analysis of the long-term development of the East Asian economies and their recent crisis. Powered by a rapid expansion of exports, these economies had...
Helping People Help Themselves
From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. Beginning with the assertion that development assistance agencies are inherently structured to provide help...
Economic Growth in Small Open Economies
Lessons from the Visegrad Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book studies the economic growth and development of four Visegrad economies (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) between 1995-2014. The author uses a neoclassical growth model with distortions (wedges) to identify the main sources of economic growth for each of these countries including...
Creative Communities
Art Works in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list, but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This important...
Openness, Economic Growth and Regional Disparities
The Case of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Substantial disparities across different Chinese regions are one of the most prominent features in China’s development process. This book investigates the mechanisms through which openness affects regional economic growth and interregional disparities in China. Based on the latest data and employing...
Environment and Development
Essays in Honour of Dr U. Sankar
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Grounded in current issues and constraints, this book focuses on valuing environmental degradation, green economic growth, trade–environment linkage, climate change, health outcome efficiency and public works programmes.
Can the ‘impressive’ growth rates registered by the Indian economy...
The Political Economy of Disaster
Destitution, Plunder and Earthquake in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince. More than a year later, little reconstruction has taken place, in spite of a strong international funding...
Growing Beyond the Low-Cost Advantage
How the People's Republic of China can Avoid the Middle-Income Trap
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The economic success of the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the last three decades has brought with it new challenges. With a per capita gross national income of $4,930 in 2011, the PRC has just passed the threshold of upper-middle-income status and it still has a long way to go before becoming...
Asian Development Review
Volume 29, Number 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
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...
by Khee Giap Tan, Sasidaran Gopalan, Anuja Tandon;Kong Yam Tan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book undertakes rigorous empirical research on competitiveness of the sub-national economies of India. One of the cornerstones of Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI)'s research strategies is to factor in the diversity of sub-national economies in a large and diverse country like India and undertake...