The U.S. is home to some of the largest corporations on the planet. American entrepreneurs spawned massive companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Oracle. Founders of these companies became very wealthy. Government entities and consumers benefited from the unmarketable products entrepreneurial visionaries developed. Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: The People and their Environment provides in-depth case studies of contemporary entrepreneurs that are building the future....
Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of Lessons and Experience
by David Coady, Margaret Grosh, and John Hodinott
Food and food markets still enjoy a pivotal role in the world economy and the international food industry is moving towards greater consolidation and globalization, with increased vertical integration and changes to market structure. Companies grow bigger in order to obtain economies of scale and issues and such as food security, quality, obesity and health are ever important factors. This book describes the link between food markets and food companies from a theoretical and a business economics...
African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda
Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set F: Development Economics (Routledge Library Editions: Development)
by Various
Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science. The books cover the most important themes within development and include studies of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Authors include Sir Alexander Cairncross, W. Arthur Lewis, L...
Cahiers De L'Afrique De L'Ouest Mobilites Ouest-africaines Et Politiques Migratoires Des Pays De L'OCDE
by OECD Publishing
Economic and Social Progress in Latin America
The Inter-American Development Bank's annual report, "Economic and Social Progress in Latin America", is a resource guide to the Latin American and Caribbean economies. The "1994 Report" features updated summaries and ten-year statistical profiles of regional and national economic performance. The statistical appendix includes year-by-year consolidated data for the past decade. This year's special section examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the effectivenes of social sp...
Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)
by World Bank
The global economy is passing through a period of relative calm, but the situation remains fragile in many areas. Developed economies are gradually strengthening, but growth in developing economies has slowed. Successful implementation of World Bank Group operations in this demanding environment will require more effective & efficiency with limited resources.
Administrative Monopoly in China
by Hong Sheng, Nong Zhao, and Junfeng Yang
Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority. Employing the Commission's Seven Strategic priorities, Scudder charts the 'middle way' forward by examining the impacts of large dams on ecosystems, societies and political economies. He also analyses the structure of...
Money and the End of Empire (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
by Gerold Krozewski
This book presents a penetrating new analysis of the end of the empire, located at the intersection of politics, economy and society in Britain and the colonies. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when political control was feasible, discriminatory management of the colonies sustained Britain's postwar recovery. But synergy turned into conflict as Britain moved towards economic liberalization and financial cosmopolitanism, and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile established relations wi...
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Development Projects
by Michael Bamberger and Bamberger Michael
The Post-Colonial Society (American University Studies Series 21: Regional Studies, #14)
by Mohamed H Abucar
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up (Culture of the Land)
by Anthony Flaccavento and Bill McKibben
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives -- and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by polic...
Exporterloesinstabilitaet (Allokation Im Marktwirtschaftlichen System, #8)
by Ingeborg Kiesewetter-Wrana
Im allgemeinen wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Exporterlosinstabili- tat von Entwicklungslandern ihre wirtschaftliche Entwicklung beein- trachtige und dass deshalb ihre Exporterlose zu stabilisieren seien. In der Arbeit wird kritisch analysiert, inwieweit Grundlagen fur eine rationale Politik der Exporterlosstabilisierung vorhanden sind. Im ersten Teil wird untersucht, inwieweit die mit einer Exporterlosstabilisierung angestrebten Ziele dem Rationalitatserfordernis entsprechen. Im zweiten Teil...
Markus Eckrich untersucht, ob Clustereffekte in der Softwareindustrie Unternehmen helfen, innovativer und produktiver zu werden. Der Autor führt anhand dieser beiden Wirkungen eine Identifikation und Analyse von Softwareclustern durch und wählt als Indikatoren die Patentdichte und die Arbeitsproduktivität. Neben der wissenschaftlichen Relevanz bietet das Buch auch für Softwareunternehmen (Standortstrategie) und die Politik (Wirtschaftsförderung) interessante Aspekte.