Economic Development category: 2617 books
Capital, Accumulation, and Money
An Integration of Capital, Growth, and Monetary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Capital, Accumulation, and Money: An Integration of Capital, Growth, and Monetary Theory is a book about capital and money. A root concept of capital is formulated that allows for most existing concepts of capital to be unified and related to one another in consistent fashion. Capital and monetary...
Enterprising Women
Expanding Economic Opportunities in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This book brings together new household and enterprise data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to inform policy makers and practitioners on ways to expand women entrepreneurs economic opportunities. Sub-Saharan Africa boasts the highest share of women entrepreneurs, but they are disproportionately...
The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World
Implications and Prospects for Recovery and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments, developed...
by Dietmar Hornung
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In the 1990s, growth theory has incorporated imperfect competition in its investigations. This innovation has proven to be seminal: Cleviating from growth models with perfect competition, the new framework featured forward looking entrepreneurs. Firms maximize profits intertemporarily, i. e. their...
Markets Over Mao
The Rise of Private Business in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
China's transition to a market economy has propelled its remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s. In this book, Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, traces the increasing role of market forces and refutes the widely advanced argument that Chinese economic...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Saemaul Undong movement was a community-driven development program of the Republic of Korea in the 1970s. The movement contributed to improved community well-being in rural communities through agricultural production, household income, village life, communal empowerment and regeneration, and women's...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In response to the growing demand of energy policy makers and regulators in the Asia and Pacific region for additional knowledge support on clean energy, this publication—prepared under the Law and Policy Reform Program of the Office of the General Counsel—presents lessons learned from countries’...
by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Globalization has affected everyone’s lives, and the reactions to it have been mixed. Legal scholars and political scientists tend to emphasize its harmful aspects, while economists tend to emphasize its benefits. Those concerned about human rights have more often been among the critics than among...
War or Peace
The Struggle for World Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Today’s international climate is one of disorder. A League of Dictators (China, Russia, Iran) is threatening the superpower status of the United States of America, and the liberal international order it has underwritten. A piecemeal Third World War seems to have begun. Eminent economist Deepak Lal...
Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Developing Countries
A Study Prepared for the International Labour Office within the Framework of the World Employment Programme
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Initially published in 1983, in association with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), this book is about the meaning, relevance and process of agrarian reform in contemporary developing countries. It includes seven detailed case studies – one each on Ethiopia, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Iran,...
Sustainable Growth in the EU
Challenges and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book explores the diverse challenges facing the EU and in particular examines the impediments to financial stability and sustainable growth and how these can be overcome. Among the topics explored are the extent to which monetary union has favored real convergence, competitive imbalances in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Game Theory has provided an extremely useful tool in enabling economists to venture into unknown areas. Its concepts of conflict and cooperation apply whenever the actions of several agents are interdependent; providing language to formulate as well as to structure, analyze, and understand strategic...
Energy Economy in China
Policy Imperatives, Market Dynamics, and Regional Developments
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The key subjects of the book are policy imperatives, market dynamics and regional developments concerning oil and gas, as well as energy as a whole in China. In addition to national policies and issues, the objective of this book is to study China's regional oil and gas demand, supply and trade, energy...
by Verzosa Cecilia Cabanero ; Garcia Helen R.
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Strategic communication refers to the design of programs aimed at promoting voluntary change in behavior among stakeholders critical to the success of reforms, with communication being an instrument of policy and program reform, not merely a means of disseminating information. This Sourcebook provides...