Foreign direct investment and the regional economy

The 'boom' in foreign direct investment (FDI) since the mid-1980s, continues to be paramount in policy interest. This book reviews the literature on the nature of FDI and reports the recent results on the performance of FDI plants in order to show the implications for ...

The impact of FDI on economic growth

an analysis for the transition countries of central and eastern Europe

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between FDI and economic growth with special attention to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Within a new semi-endogenous growth model, the book illustrates the impact of FDI on economic growth for every stage of ...

Stability with growth

macroeconomics, liberalization and development

There is growing dissatisfaction with the economic policies advocated by the IMF and other international financial institutions - policies that have often resulted in stagnating growth, crises, and recessions for client countries. This book presents an alternative to "Washington Consensus" neo-liberal economic policies, by showing that ...

Clusters and globalisation

the development of urban and regional economies

Clustering as an economic policy concern has become increasingly fashionable. The authors of this book shed light on this subject of which there remains remarkably little understanding, and even less agreement, regarding what clusters are, what they require for success and what impacts they are ...

Deuda externa y comercio mundial

momento de establecer vínculos

En la actualidad los países en desarrollo adeudan más de tres veces la cantidad que debían hace 25 años. El pago de la deuda absorbe la mayor parte de sus recursos que, en consecuencia, no pueden emplearse en reducir la pobreza, en mejorar la salud ...

Regional economic development

analysis and planning strategy

The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for graduate students, reflecting recent advances and adding insightful new material. The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for ...

Entrepreneurship and economic growth

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has ...

The white man's burden

why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little Good

We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to ...

El fetiche del crecimiento

Durante décadas, nuestros políticos han proclamado que unos mayores ingresos eran el camino para un futuro mejor. Crecimiento económico significaba una vida mejor para todos nosotros. Pero tras muchos años de crecimiento económico sostenido, e ingresos personales cada vez mayores, debemos afrontar un hecho abrumador ...

Objetivo decrecimiento

Esta obra combate frontalmente el crecimiento sostenible, que los autores consideran una falacia, y ofrece una propuesta tan radical como razonada: sustituir el crecimiento económico por el decrecimiento. Éste se puede implementar de diversas formas, y no iría en detrimento de nuestro bienestar, sino que ...

Crecimiento económico

INDICE:Primera Parte: Visión panorámica.Capítulo 1. Los hechos. Capítulo 2. Un marco analítico.Segunda Parte: La acumulación de factores.Capítulo 3. El capital físico.Capítulo 4. La población y el crecimiento económico.Capítulo 5. Tendencias futuras de la población. Capítulo 6. El capital humano ...

Entrepreneurship and economic growth

#Why do economies grow? For centuries this has been one of the most important questions in economics. The importance of this question is found in the simple fact that the purchasing power of the average individual has increased ten fold in just one hundred years ...

Growth and empowerment

making development happen

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In "Growth ...

The Natural survival of work

job creation and job destruction in a growing economy

How to manage the unemployment that occurs in the process of the continuous job destruction and creation responsible for growth in today's economies: what recent economic research tells us about wages, incentives to work, and education. Every working day in the United States, 90 ...

Growth, capital and new technologies

Eds. Matilde Mas, Paul Schreyer. During the 1990s, the United States experienced an upsurge in economic growth. Despite the fact that some of this acceleration was of a pure cyclical nature, more long-term structural explanations were also proposed, in particular the role of information and ...

Growth and econommic development

essays in honour of A.P. Thriwall

This valuable and engaging new book bears eloquent testimony to A.P. Thirlwall's substantial contribution to economics over the last 40 years. The volume does not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of such a prolific figure, but rather demonstrates the considerable influence that ...

Dynamic macroeconomic theory

The tasks of macroeconomics are to interpret observations on economic aggregates in terms of the motivations and constraints of economic agents and to predict the consequences of alternative hypothetical ways of administering government economic policy. General equilibrium models form a convenient context for analyzing such ...

Next economic growth

new factors and new perspectives

Considering the new possibilities offered by endogenous growth models and the improvement of data information, new variables have been introduced in the analysis of economic growth. But in spite of this important effort to develop a wider and more complete perspective of economic growth process ...

Knowledge and the wealth of nations

a story of economic discovery

In 1980, the twenty-four-year-old graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later he solved it. This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith more ...

The political economy of fiscal policy

public deficits, volatility, and growth

One of the most striking macroeconomic developments during the last three decades is the rise and persistence of large fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from recurrent large fiscal imbalances that often reflect ...