Development Economics
-
Add to Wish List
Decentralization in Developing Countries
Edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, François Vaillancourt
This insightful study examines the decentralization experiences from 15 countries in different regions of the world. All of these countries have actively attempted to decentralize, or continue to do so, and have faced obstacles serious e... -
Add to Wish List
Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions
Robert J. Brent
HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost–benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the mo...eBook:Find out more$39.16
-
Add to Wish List
Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2011
Zoltán J. Ács, László Szerb
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the aut...eBook:Find out more$65.00
-
Add to Wish List
The Asian Tsunami
Sisira Jayasuriya, Peter McCawley
The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230 000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Managing Capital Flows
Edited by Masahiro Kawai, Mario B. Lamberte
Managing Capital Flows provides analyses designed to help policymakers develop a framework for managing capital flows that is consistent with prudent macroeconomic and financial sector stability.eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Asian Regionalism in the World Economy
Edited by Masahiro Kawai, Jong-Wha Lee, Peter A. Petri, Giovanni Capanelli
The structure and policy architecture of the world economy, as it emerges from the historic challenges now underway, will be affected by the dramatic rise of Asian economies and deepening connections among them. This important book exami...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Private Sector and Enterprise Development
Lois Stevenson
This important and well-researched book examines the challenges to private sector growth in twelve Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focussing on the spec... -
Add to Wish List
Rethinking Trade and Commercial Policy Theories
P. Sai-wing Ho
This controversial book offers a unique approach to rethinking the trade and development literature and will therefore strongly appeal to researchers, academics, and students of trade and development as well as those involved in the hist... -
Add to Wish List
Contemporary Microenterprise
Edited by Joseph Mark S. Munoz
While there have been numerous books and articles written on the popular topic of ‘microfinance’, few books have been written on the business model behind it: the ‘microenterprise’. Due to its diversity of thought and high quality of cha...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Input Trade and Production Networks in East Asia
Edited by Daisuke Hiratsuka, Yoko Uchida
Intermediate input trade is regarded as an important contributory factor in explaining the increase in world trade in recent years. This timely book presents, for the first time, meticulous empirical analyses of the growth of input trade...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Corruption and its Manifestation in the Persian Gulf
Hossein Askari, Scheherazade Sabina Rehman, Noora Arfaa
The authors of this timely book investigate various forms and measures of corruption, examine whether corruption is more acute in Persian Gulf countries than elsewhere, and illustrate the unique forms it takes in oil- and natural gas-ric...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Beyond Inflation Targeting
Edited by Gerald A. Epstein, A. Erinc Yeldan
This book, written by an international team of economists, develops concrete, country specific alternatives to inflation targeting, the dominant policy framework of central bank policy that focuses on keeping inflation in the low single ...eBook:Find out more$57.56