Economic Development category: 2617 books
Public-Private Partnership Projects in Infrastructure
An Essential Guide for Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Infrastructural investment is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, health care, and the achievement of many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) can...
by Mats Lundahl
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Agriculture is at the centre of the economies of many developing countries, and its stagnation and poor performance across large parts of Africa is a major cause for concern. First published in 1990, this book focuses on the nature and role of incentives in agricultural organization and production...
Social Development
Critical Themes and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
India is emerging as a key player in the development cooperation arena, not only because of the increasing volume and reach of its south-south cooperation but more so because of its leadership and advocacy for the development of a distinctly southern development discourse and knowledge generation.
This...
The Reality of Aid 1998-1999
An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
NOW IN ITS SIXTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid has for the first time analysed the 'fair share' of bilateral aid for basic social services � basic education, basic health, reproductive health, nutrition, clean water and sanitation - that should come from each donor; an analysis which shows...
Challenging Consumption
Pathways to a more Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change. Informed by a number of disciplinary perspectives, this book is structured around four key themes in sustainable consumption research: Living, Moving, Dwelling and...
by Nicholas Stern, Alex Bowen, John Whalley
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The year 2015 will be a landmark year for international climate change negotiations. Governments have agreed to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in 2015. The...
How Growth Really Happens
The Making of Economic Miracles through Production, Governance, and Skills
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century
Achieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to understand how successful growth happens we need...
The Political Economy of Development
The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities. The Political Economy of Development provides tools for gaining this understanding and applies them across...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
The current economic situation has obliged the international donor community to reexamine its stance on the conditionality of development assistance. This study evaluates which controversies persist with respect to aid conditionality, how successful donors have been in stemming the rising tide of...
by David B. Audretsch, Max C. Keilbach, Erik E. Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge...
by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies. The first volume, India's Reforms: How They Produced Inclusive Growth (OUP, 2012), systematically demonstrated that reforms-led growth in India led to reduced poverty among all social...
Small Change
How Fifty Dollars Can Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Help people help themselves: That's the idea behind microcredit. Small loans-sometimes no more than $50-can radically improve the life of a poor family. Where development aid and billion-dollar loans fail, microcredit is emerging as the success story in the battle against world poverty. People who were...
Barriers to Bankable Infrastructure
Incentivizing Private Investment to Fill the Global Infrastructure Gap
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This report discusses the estimated $1 trillion annual global infrastructure gap and provides recommendations on how U.S. agencies and multilateral development banks can better incentivize private-sector investment in global infrastructure. While many private companies are looking to support infrastructure...