Economic Development

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815711247Author Lael BrainardFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171881055Author Raj KapilaFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint Academic FoundationPublisher Academic FoundationDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815711155Author Lael BrainardFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

This Element outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management...

Thought-leaders contributing to this volume include Piyush Gupta, Laurence Liew, Lee Tzu Yang, Geh Min, and more!This volume comprises essays by Singapore thought-leaders republished from various issues of the annual journal of the National University of...

This Element outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management...

This book is a solutions manual and study guide to the 3rd edition of Economic Growth and Development. It includes solutions to all end-of-chapter questions and model-based problems within the text. In addition, each chapter contains a reader's guide for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839698811Author Musa Jega IbrahimFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647254186Author Kyle GreinerFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint NY Research PressPublisher NY Research PressWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632408273Author Edith MoranFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm)...

National Development Financial Institutions (NDFIs) are crucial in mobilizing investments for climate and environmental (C&E) objectives. NDFIs also need to manage C&E related financial risks. This report distills insights and guidance to provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815734734Author Amadou SyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

In the 1970's, an "age of affluence" ended abruptly in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. Skyrocketing inflation, persistent unemployment, and sluggish growth became new, oppressive realities for government and citizens alike. This book...

Foreword by Donald J. Puchala, Ph.D. This book considers how a financial crisis develops and how a government responds to a financial crisis. In an attempt to shed light on these questions, it closely examines two cases: Mexico during the Mexican Peso...

The Economic Theory of Developing Countries' Rise examines the great economic development achievements of China within such a short period of time, which have surprised the world and have also raised other developing countries' hopes for catching up with...

Globalization and Competition explains why some middle-income countries, principally those in Asia, grow fast while others are not successful. The author criticizes both old-style developmentalism and the economics of the Washington Consensus. He argues...

This report lays the foundations for the World Bank to fully integrate a social contract lens in its development policy toolkit in SSA. This report's contribution consists mostly of a conceptual and empirical framework, mapping knowledge gaps, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700602179Author Francis H. HellerFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of KansasWeight(grams)...

This report discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on migrants in the Mediterranean region, and on their sending and receiving countries. The report shows that policy interventions can help mobility continue safely in the aftermath of the COVID-19...

Analyzes the success or failure of the antipoverty programs in terms of their own discourse.ReviewsZarefsky's concentration on the struggles fought over the symbols of the antipoverty effort makes for an engrossing analysis of the War on Poverty from a...

Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report. Published semiannually, the report includes analysis of topical policy challenges faced by developing countries through in-depth research in the January edition, and shorter analytical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464811456Author The World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629371869Author Sik Hung NgFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint City University of Hong Kong PressPublisher City University of Hong Kong Press

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the countries of East-Central Europe embarked on a journey to transform themselves into democratic capitalist societies. Their governments searched for strategies that would allow them to pursue radical market reforms...

This compilation of case studies and cross-country essays focuses on the role of public policy in the experience of East Asian economies. A major theme running through the volume is regional learning and regional contagion--the spread of that learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219278Author V-Y MudimbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 380g

The Intangible Economy: How Services Shape Global Production and Consumption studies aspects of the role of services in development as well as on particular sectoral issues, always with policy considerations lurking not far from the analysis. The volume...

A growing consensus has emerged in recent years among donors, and between aid agencies and their developing country counterparts, on development strategies. Almost everybody now agrees that sustainable development requires macroeconomic stability,...

At the start of a new century, Japan finds itself confronted with an economic challenge that is unlike any it has faced since the end of World War II. Most commentators agree that Japan has to change. The issue is the form and direction that such a...

Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore explores the transformation of Singapore in the last three decades, going beyond the conventional explanations. The book argues that there was more to the transformation than a simple 'right place, right time'...

This book studies pitfalls in value added accounting of sectoral growth in real terms in the context of liberalisation of the Indian economy. Growth of sectoral gross value added can systematically deviate from that of final expenditure (and gross...

Urbanisation in the literature of development economics is expected to bring in a spectrum of social and economic transformations. With this framework in mind, this book focuses on various aspects of urbanisation in India and its impact on socio-economic...

The Planning Commission played a crucial role in the type of development that India followed after independence. However, even though most economic analyses of India mention the five-year plans, the Planning Commission as an institution remains little...

This book is a definitive collection of Keith Pavitt's seminal articles in the analysis of technology and innovation. He presents realistic, empirical accounts of the economic impact of technological change on firms, emphasising the cognitive dimensions...

The 'feminisation of poverty' is widely viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender'...

In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the 'new economy' and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story...

Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The...

In this book Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson offer an historical overview of the rapid growth and development of the Singapore economy, detailing the institutions and policies which have made this growth possible. They examine the current state of the...

This concise book, by one of the leading scholars in development economics, has been developed from a series of lectures given to masters students and will serve as an excellent introduction to the principles of growth and development theory. The author...

This book aims to extend the current research and debate in constitutional economics by using a positive economics approach. Born out of discontent with the current state in constitutional economics, this book presents an inquiry in the possibilities of...