This textbook includes discussions of such topics as the environment, the debt case, export-led industrialisation, import substitution industrialisation, growth theory and technological capability. It covers Latin America, Africa, China and Asia. Forlag: Routledge Udgivelsesår: 2008 Sider: 613 Sprog: Engelsk
Concepts and Practice Summary: Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner
Summary: For over thirty years, this classic text has offered students a comprehensive overview of the economic aspects of growth and development which is clearly written without sacrificing rigour. The focus is on macroeconomic issues with unique chapters on the history of economic thought, project appraisal and input-output analysis and extensive material on growth theory and the growth process in developing countries. Mini case examples and numerous statistics support the theory, while discussion questions and weblinks encourage student reflection Titel: Growth & development : with special reference to developing economics Udgave: Eighth Edition Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: This edition provides a thorough updated survey of development economics, discussing globalization, poverty measurement, Millennium Development Goals, trade liberalization, and more. Type: Paperback
This text encourages critical engagement by integrating theory alongside practice and related key topics throughout. It demonstrates informatively that ideas concerning development have been many and varied and highly contested - varying from time to time and from place to place. Titel: Geographies of Development : An Introduction to Development Studies Forfattere: Robert B. Potter,Tony Binns,Jennifer A. Elliott,David Smith Udgave: 3. udgave Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies, Third Edition, remains a core, balanced, and comprehensive introductory textbook. It demonstrates the intricacies of development geography through key thinkers and critical debates, encouraging engagement with local, national, and global perspectives. Type: Paperback
By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While 'economic miracles' in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, and ranked lowest in the world in just about every economic and social indicator. Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady economic progress, with new construction projects, flower markets, shops, and ubiquitous cell phones. In Africa's Turn? Miguel tracks a decade of comparably hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we may be seeing a turnaround. He bases his hopes on a range of recent changes: democracy is finally taking root in many countries; China's success
The Political Economy of Global Inequality This new edition of Development and Underdevelopment retains the strongest contributions of the previous three editions, but includes 12 new chapters that reflect the many seminal contributions made to the field in recent years. There are also two new sections: one addressing the historical origins of the gap between rich and poor countries, and one focusing on how globalization has affected the gap between countries and between the rich and poor within countries.The editors? short introduction to each selection, highlighting its significance, remains a key feature of the book. Forlag: Lynne Rienner Publishers Udgivelsesår: 2008 Sider: 437 Sprog: Engelsk
Aid Understanding International Development Cooperation.
Theory and Practice Summary: Economic Policy: Theory and Practice, Second Edition provides a unique combination of facts-based analysis, state-of-the art economic theory and insights from first-hand policy experience at the national and international levels to shed light on current domestic and international policy challenges and discuss policy responses Titel: Economic policy : theory and practice Forfatter: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré Forlag: Oxford University Press Udgivelsesår: 2018 Sider: 705 Sprog: Engelsk
