Economic Development category: 2617 books
British Withdrawal from the European Union
A Guide to the Case For
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
British withdrawal from the European Union: A guide to the case for
In 1992, Britain benefited greatly by withdrawing from the European Union’s programme of Economic and Monetary Union. This is a detailed guide to the case for UK withdrawal from the bloc as a whole. Major general arguments...
by Hartmut Brandt, Uwe Otzen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor live...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The knowledge economy has become an important part of contemporary development for cities in a time of globalization and expansion. Examining theories of knowledge transfer and urban advancement allows for better adaptation in a changing global society. Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle...
Regional Innovation Systems and Sustainable Development
Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The regional development of society and economy are closely related with innovative capacities. As the benefits of Regional information systems in establishing innovative regional planning are more widely recognized, there is a greater demand for a definitive text on the nascent subject. Regional...
Ownership Leadership and Transformation
Can We Do Better for Capacity Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The third and final in a series, this text bridges the conceptual foundations of capacity development and the difficulties and practical realities in the field. It demystifies the process of capacity development to make it more user-friendly. The book has two parts. The first shows how long-standing...
Indices and Indicators in Development
An Unhealthy Obsession with Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The use of numbers to condense complex systems into easily digested 'bites' of information is very much in fashion. At one level they are intended to enhance transparency, accountability and local democracy, while at another they provide a means of enhancing performance. However, all indicators suffer...
by World Bank, International Monetary Fund
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
What has been the impact of yet another food price spike on developing countries’ ability to make progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? How many poor people have been prevented from lifting themselves out of poverty? How many people, and how many children, have seen their personal...
by Ian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The great inter-war depression has long been seen as an unprecedented economic disaster for the peoples of the non-European world. This book, with its detailed assessment of the impact of the depression on the economies of Africa and Asia, challenges the orthodox view, and is essential reading for...
by Rongxing Guo
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
China's economic growth has been more robust in some regions than others. In a country as large as China, examinations of regional differences can provide a viable way to learn about the economy as a whole. Rongxing Guo provides a systematic introduction to the economies of China by describing...
The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict
Predation, Production, and Peripheries
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibrium in which cities are effectively protected from violent non-state actors. What factors account for...
Two Roads Diverge
The Transition Experience of Poland and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The dramatic events of Maidan in February 2014 shone a spotlight on the immense problems facing Ukraine. At the same time that Ukraine was undergoing turmoil, its western neighbor Poland was celebrating twenty-five years of post-communism with a rosy economic outlook and projections of continued growth....
UN Millennium Development Library: Prescription for Healthy Development
Increasing Access to Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education,...
How Capitalism Was Built
The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Anders Aslund is known to make bold predictions that initially arouse controversy but soon become common wisdom. In Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989), he foresaw the collapse of the Soviet political and economic system. After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, observers declared the...
by Nadeem Malik
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not only become an important concept for corporate organizations but also civil society, community, state and the multilateral and bilateral development agencies. It has acquired great significance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, not...