Economic Development category: 2617 books
African Successes, Volume II
Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet...
African Successes, Volume I
Government and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet...
Popular Representations of Development
Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies.
Through its accessible and provocative...
The Way Ahead
Meeting Canada's Productivity Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Canada is a prosperous country, but this prosperity is being stressed by demographics, pressures on the public purse, and low productivity growth. To maintain the nation's high quality of life, prosperity must increase while remaining sustainable. Combining Tom Brzustowski's extensive knowledge of...
The Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa 2018
Interim Assessment of Key SME Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This report provides an in-depth analysis of major reforms undertaken between 2014 and 2018 to promote micro, small and medium-sized enterprise development in Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority and Tunisia. The report focuses on five strategic areas for SME...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security. Despite advances in policy, carbon management and continuing development of clean technology, fundamental business transformation has not occurred...
by Stewart Wallis, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Stewart Wallis identifies overconsumption as a primary source of inequality and natural destruction. He outlines a new economic model that...
Taxing Africa
Coercion, Reform and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number crunchers – an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or good governance. Yet it is exactly these issues that pervade conversations about taxation among policymakers, tax collectors,...
The Bubble Economy
Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial “de-carbonization” could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime...
by Phillip Phan
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Microfinance is regarded as a lynchpin in private sector solutions to a host of complex social challenges, from child labor, education, and women's rights, through to sustainable local economic development. The principle of self-help through capital accumulation in the US inner city looks similar...
The Political Economy of Global Warming
The Terminal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
• Why have only 13 developing world economies achieved sustained, high growth since World War II? • Why is engagement with the global economy necessary to achieve high growth? • Why do some countries' growth strategies fail to win the public's confidence? • Why are equity and equality...
Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise
Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for disadvantaged...
The Tyranny of Experts
Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
"Bracingly iconoclastic." --New York Times Book Review
In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting...