The recent economic trends and the challenges posed by the global crisis reinforce the importance of implementing strategies for development as opposed to leaving the economy to market forces. Countries need a strategic compass for long-run economic development, either explicitly or implicitly. Among other ingredients, this comprises macroeconomic policies, sectoral policies (including the financial sector, trade and industrial policies), institution building in key areas and development-friendl...
A Profile of the Public Service of Malaysia (Public Service Country Profile)
This is the most comprehensive guidebook to Lake Tahoe's finest hiking area. It offers you; 32 accurately described hiking trips in four areas; Desolation Wilderness, Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay, South Fork American River (trails south of Highway 50), and Upper Truckee River (trails north of Highway 88 and west of Highway 89).
Stagnation Versus Growth in Europe
This book explores the debate on the policies required to overcome the crises of 2008 and 2011, in which the focus on short-term measures has overshadowed the need to analyze the low growth rate in the European Union, and especially the Eurozone, as the basis for interventions that will counteract the tendency toward stagnation. Factors that lie at the root of the low growth are examined in depth, covering, for example, the impact of the demographic trend toward an aging population in Europe, co...
Argues that the United States can greatly move ahead by eliminating our addiction to adversarial competition and by emphasizing the teamwork necessary to create an M Form society, like Japan.
With a few notable exceptions, articles and books on the Chinese-African relationship are produced by Western authors and they are founded on relatively similar analyses, slamming together the varied actions of China on the African continent, and reaching similar, inevitable conclusions. This book is, in contrast, a new take on Sino-African cooperation. This book analyzes the reasons for the renewed interest in Africa and its economic, political and diplomatic effects. This book, which is meant...
Entrepreneurial endeavours are a pivotal driving force behind the modern business sector. These enterprises play a significant role in the development and sustainability of a nation’s economy. Financial Entrepreneurship for Economic Growth in Emerging Nations is an innovative reference source for the latest scholarly research on strategies and techniques for financing small and medium-sized enterprises in the context of developing nations. Including a range of pertinent topics such as microinsu...
Friends of the Earth commissioned the author of this book to conduct an enquiry into Britain's aid to the Third World. The results are presented here, describing the history of aid and its multiple forms. The author analyzes the different kinds of aid and its differing effects. The book is an effective plea from one of the West's more influential environmentalist lobbies, for concentration of aid effort on sustainable projects and for a move away from profitable investment to genuine support for...
Integration and Clustering for Sustainable Economic Growth (Contributions to Economics)
This book describes the importance of integration and clustering in creating sustainable economic growth. Modern economic conditions demonstrate the need for governmental stimulation of cluster initiatives in entrepreneurship, and make it necessary to study the experience of developed countries in the sphere of stimulation of cluster initiatives in entrepreneurship, and to offer recommendations for improving the system of state stimulation of these initiatives. The authors conclude that at prese...
China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
by Kristen A. Day
China has been experiencing extraordinary economic growth for over two decades. Behind the remarkable statistics, however, it is facing a pressing issue: balancing its economic development needs with protecting its environmental resources. The environmental issue in China has a profound impact on the rest of the world as well, in such concerns as global warning and ethical and legal considerations about environmental enforcement. This book covers a broad range of topics, from specific environmen...
Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a single village in a crucially important country to illuminate the drivers of these changes, why some people do better or worse than others, and what influences mobility and inequality. How Lives Change draws on seven decades of detailed data collection by a team of dedicated development economists to describe the evolution of Palanpur's economy, its socie...
Colonial Bureaucrats and the Mexican Economy (American University Studies, Series 9: History, #13)
by John S Leiby
The limitations of fossil fuel supply and the need for decarbonization of energy systems presage the dawn of the hydrogen economy. However, realizing this vision will require developing and implementing solutions to engineering and technology challenges in hydrogen production, storage, utilization and distribution. "Hydrogen: Science, Engineering, and Energy Systems" presents a comprehensive overview of these issues. Hydrogen production alternatives are examined and the competing options analyze...
Rethinking Agency: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights
by Sumi Madhok
Sustentabilidad Ambiental En La Industria (Estudios Economicos, E/028)
by Alfonso Mercado Garcia and Ismael Aguilar Barajas