Description: In this book the contributors redress this glaring omission in the history of political economy, for the first time providing an overview of developments in Irish political economy from the ...
Author: Gelinas, Nicole Publisher: Encounter Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital s...
Author: Kot, Jake Publisher: Miles & Me Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the pages of An Artistic Guide to Economic Survival: "The challenges we now face to get ahead in our current economic status are as unique in structure as the business plans that got us into thi...
Author: Iarossi, Giuseppe / Mousley, Peter / Radwan, Ismail Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nigeria has a clear vision of where it wants to be. The country??s vision 2020 expresses a bold desire to be among the top twenty economies by the year 2020. The economy has posted impressive growth f...
Author: O'Brien, George Publisher: IHS Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This work offers a unique perspective on the rise of capitalism and socialism and the effect of the Reformation. Specific topics include consequences of belief in the private judgment of scriptures; s...
Author: Brakman, Steven / Garretsen, Harry / Marrewijk, Charles van Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The need for a better understanding of the role location plays in economic life was first and most famously made explicit by Bertil Ohlin in 1933. However it is only recently, with the development of ...
Author: Boyd, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory.
Author: de Ferranti, David / Perry, Guillermo , E. / Lederman, Daniel Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In Latin American and Caribbean history, rural societies have been at the center of both the origins of prosperity and of social upheaval. Rural communities have access to a wealth of natural resourc...
Author: Pollock, Alex J. Publisher: AEI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While the recent economic crisis was a painful period for many Americans, the panic surrounding the downturn was fueled by an incomplete understanding of economic history. Economic hysteria made for r...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brazil ranks among the largest countries in the world, in terms of its people, its landmass, and its economy. It is endowed with a highly entrepreneurial people, rich cultural heritage, precious natur...
Author: Gustafson, Thane Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain...
Author: Muqiao, Xue Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the first of a series which makes available to an English-speaking audience the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of reform. The series provides an inside ...
Author: Fiszbein, Ariel Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Latin American countries have seen significant progress in the past two decades in the coverage of social and infrastructure services. However, coverage gaps and poor quality of services remain a ser...
Author: Kahn, Matthew E. Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're...
Author: Kahn, Matthew E. Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're...
Author: Katzner, Donald W. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Culture plays an important role in shaping the nature and content of economics. This fascinating book compares the two cultures of Japan and the United States and provides insights into the economic w...
Description: Developing a Sustainable Economy in Cameroon is an ambitious effort as the authors try to set a blue print for Cameroon's economy. In the 1980s facing economic crisis, and as dictated by the structura...
Author: Killick, Tony Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa's most closely watched economies. In this new edition three additional chapters provide...
Author: Jeffries, Ian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Following on from Jeffries' 2001 "Economies in Transition: A Guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century," this comprehensive survey of economic and...
Author: Iankova, Elena A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the relationship between governments, labor and business in central and eastern Europe as capitalism develops. This triple forum for social dialogue in Bulgaria and Poland is descri...
Author: Jeffries, Ian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of contemporary economic developments in China. Key topics include the growth of the market; the market replacing central planning; the reform ...
Author: Loayza, Norman / Fajnzylber, Pablo / Calderon, Cesar Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The 1960s and 70s were decades of solid growth rates for Latin America and the Caribbean region as a whole. This changed in the 1980s, when the growth rate of output per capita fell to negative value...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the 1970's and early 1980's, Vietnam's economic performance was dismal, and Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. With the adoption of new market-oriented policies in the late 1980...
Author: Sheng, Yumin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why and how has the Chinese central government so far managed to fend off the centrifugal forces under rising globalization that are predicted to undermine national-level political authority everywher...
Author: Hodgson, Geoff Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book challenges the view that an alternative to Western capitalism is neither possible nor desirable. Without proposing a static blueprint, the author explores a new possible scenario.
Author: Hodgson, Geoffrey M Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book challenges the view that an alternative to Western capitalism is neither possible nor desirable. Without proposing a static blueprint, the author explores a new possible scenario.
Author: Chiswick, Carmel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering areas such as Jewish Studies, Economics of Religion, Sociology of Religion and Immigrant Religion, this book is required reading for all those interested in how economic environment influence...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ecuador has suffered from high external vulnerability, poor macroeconomic performance, and poor governance. A succession of external adversities-linked to the volatility of oil prices and violent vari...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Kyrgyz Republic has made major strides in the past decade in its transition to a market-based economy. Its trade and investment policies are arguably the most liberal among the member countries o...
Author: Mosquera, Jim Publisher: The Sentinel Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The financial shocks to our economy left the public dazed and confused. How could this happen? Can't the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve fix this? Who is responsible for this mess? What can...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The central theme of this book is competition treated as an evolutionary process in which the focus is upon economic change and not economic equilibrium.
Author: Singh, Pritam Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines India's development through an exploration of the triangular relationship between federalism, nationalism and the development process. It focuses on one of the seemingly paradoxical...
Author: W., Arthur Lewis, Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold stan...
Author: Vodopivec, Milan Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With the aim to provide guidelines for countries wishing to introduce or improve income support systems for the unemployed, the book summarizes the evidence about the performance of five such systems:...
Author: Dahlman, Carl J. / Utz, Anuja Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In the global knowledge economy of the twenty-first century, India's development policy challenges will require it to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry...
Author: Yusuf,Shahid Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: East Asian economies of the 1980s and 1990s were among the most competitive exporters of manufactured products and sustained growth rates far higher than those of other countries, developing or indust...
Author: Gallup, John Luke Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is u...
Author: Gao, Bai Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Japanese economy, after decades of seemingly unsurpassable competitiveness, experienced a major crisis in the 1990s. Observers of Japan are faced with a challenging question: How can one explain J...
Author: Vollmer, Chuck Publisher: Newswire Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jobenomics deals with the economics of job, wealth and revenue creation--the substance of which powers the US economy, sustains the American way of life, and secures US national sovereignty. Jobenomic...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Korea's development process offers valuable lessons for other developing and less developed economies. In particular, the way Korea uses outside technologies, by accumulating indigenous capabilities, ...
Author: Kelly, Philip F. Publisher: Routledge Curzon Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb.
