Economic Development category: 2617 books
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Georgia is the result of a project carried out by the Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia) and the OECD Development Centre, in collaboration with the State Commission on Migration Issues (SCMI) and with support from the...
Enhancing Connectivity through Transport Infrastructure
The Role of Official Development Finance and Private Investment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Transport infrastructure is crucial to connect developing countries and help them to boost trade, growth and regional integration. This is because cross-border or long-distance roads and railways as well as international ports and airports are needed to move products and people around in a globalised...
Economic Diversification in Africa
A Review of Selected Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
This study provides an empirical review of the role of governments, the private sector, regional economic institutions and the broader international community in driving economic diversification. Individual case studies of five African economies describe both the catalysts of and barriers to diversification....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Developing country debt crises have been a recurrent phenomenon over the past two centuries. In recent times sovereign debt insolvency crises in developing and emerging economies peaked in the 1980s and, again, from the middle 1990s to the start of the new millennium. Despite the fact that several...
Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development
Leaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate how local and regional society contributes in important ways to the vitality of entrepreneurs. The literature is rich with insights about leadership and...
Development Finance
Debates, Dogmas and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
This book examines the subject of Development Finance, or more specifically how financial systems can help or hinder the process of human development. As an expert in this field, Stephen Spratt reviews the components of the domestic and international financial systems, and considers reform options...
Capacity for Development
New Solutions to Old Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both, as a source of technical cooperation funds and advisory services and as the home of innovative intellectual research...
Why Australia Prospered
The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how...
Integrating Human Rights into Development, Second Edition
Donor Approaches, Experiences, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The past two decades have witnessed a convergence between human rights and development, particularly at the level of international political statements and policy commitments. This phenomenon is captured in milestones such as the 2007 OECD DAC Action Oriented Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development...
Atlas of Global Development
A Visual Guide to the Worlds Greatest Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED INCLUDING SPECIAL eBOOK-ONLY CONTENT Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated fourth edition of the Atlas of Global Development is a comprehensive guide to the most critical issues facing our changing world today. A visual guide to...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
World Development Indicators 2016 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens find and use data related...
Earth Capitalism
Creating a New Civilization Through a Responsible Market Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Today a deepening global recession is causing economic hardships for all kinds of businesses. Earth Capitalism attributes the crisis to inappropriate macroeconomic policies and excessive expansion of financial institutions in blind pursuit of profit, lack of self-discipline among financial institutions,...
Wealth, Income Inequalities, and Demography
The Long-Term Policy View
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In this book, leading experts take a long-term view of the trends and policies of most relevance in achieving the structural readjustment required by the current crisis, which for too long has been viewed merely as an economic recession. A wide variety of issues are addressed, including the implications...
by J. Edward Taylor, Travis J. Lybbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today’s development economics research and practice, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development...