Economic Development category: 2617 books
Dinosaurs or Dynamos
The United Nations and the World Bank at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Explores how much and what the World Bank and the United Nations can really be expected to achieve. The text begins with a detailed account of the evolution of the two organizations as multilateral development institutions and then focuses on the functions that the World Bank and the UN carry out,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical...
Modern Evolutionary Economics
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Evolutionary economics sees the economy as always in motion with change being driven largely by continuing innovation. This approach to economics, heavily influenced by the work of Joseph Schumpeter, saw a revival as an alternative way of thinking about economic advancement as a result of Richard...
by Gérard Roland
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Gerard Roland's new text, Development Economics, is the first undergraduate text to recognize the role of institutions in understanding development and growth. Through a series of chapters devoted to specific sets of institutions, Roland examines the effects of institutions on growth, property rights,...
Rethinking Development
Essays on Development and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
First published in 1987, this volume stresses the importance of development studies for sociology, as P. W. Preston argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the ‘classical tradition’ of social theorizing, represented by...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The local levels of economies have felt the impact of technological change and globalization. These forces have triggered the need to understand the dynamic mechanisms that enable locales to respond to such changes. For example, the downsizing of traditional employers because of a major loss in market...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The face of global development is changing rapidly, and the CSIS Global Development Monitor seeks to address the complex issues highlighted by the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals. Over a dozen CSIS experts and affiliates examine the role and purpose of official development assistance...
Global Economic Prospects, January 2017
Weak Investment in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Stagnant global trade, subdued investment, and heightened policy uncertainty marked another difficult year for the world economy. A subdued recovery is expected for 2017, with receding obstacles to activity in commodity exporters and solid domestic demand in commodity importers. Weak investment is weighing...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2018
The Turning of the Tide?
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Global growth has eased but remains robust and is projected to reach 3.1 percent in 2018. It is expected to edge down in the next two years, to 2.9 percent by 2020, as global slack dissipates, trade and investment moderate, and financing conditions tighten. Growth in advanced economies is predicted...
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018
From World Development Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 is a visual guide to the trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas features maps and data visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank’s...
Jumpstarting South Asia
Revisiting Economic Reforms and Look East Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Jumpstarting South Asia focuses on the slowing pace of economic growth and makes the case for a two-pronged strategy to jumpstart South Asian economies. South Asian countries should complete the economic reform process that they had begun in the 1980s and the early 1990s and implement the more microeconomic...
Together We Deliver
50 Stories of ADB's Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This publication reflects on 5 decades of engagement with our 40 developing member countries, and explores 10 cross-cutting areas of work that enable the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to respond to new and emerging challenges that will affect development outcomes in a rapidly changing region. These...
Industrial Development in Africa
Mapping Industrialization Pathways for a Leaping Leopard
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Industrial Development in Africa critically synthesizes and reframes the debates on African industrial development in a capability-opportunity framework. It recasts the challenge in a broader comparative context of successive waves of catchup industrialization experiences in the European periphery,...
Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative
A Decade of Reform: Annual Progress Report 2015-2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) has been working to improve the lives of Pacific people for 10 years. Through reforms that encourage a well-functioning and vibrant private sector, PSDI's initiatives aim to make it easier to set up, run, and dissolve a business in the Pacific...