The plain language guide to the world summit on sustainable development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates with the goal of mapping out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting 54-page technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), outlining government priorities and ...

The social economics of poverty

on identities, communities, groups, and networks

This book presents a unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in developing countries and calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, showing how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread disparity in ...

Limits to growth

the 30 year update

1972, The Limits to Growth shocked the world and forever changed the global agenda by demonstrating that unchecked growth on our finite planet was leading planet earth towards ecological 'overshoot' and pending disaster. Employing computer modelling and hard data the book went on to sell ...

Las nuevas fuerzas del desarrollo

¿Es posible el desarrollo económico sostenible en un contexto de creciente competencia y globalización de la economía y la sociedad? ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos que lo hacen posible? ¿Qué acciones y relaciones favorecen un proceso continuo y duradero de desarrollo? El autor da respuesta a ...

Methods in development research

combinig qualitative and quantitative approaches

Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness that the value of research can be enhanced ...

Federalism and the market

intergovernmental conflict and economic reform in the developing world

This research develops a new comparative model of intergovernmental bargaining to account for variation in the capacity of federations in the developing world to undertake economic policy reform, suggesting that many market reform policies are a function of a constant process of bargaining between national ...

Culture, institutions and economic development

a study of eight European regions

Regions are increasingly recognised as a key aspect of economic change in Europe, not merely as geographic spaces but also as social systems. Their history, culture, institutions and patterns of leadership mould the way in which they adapt to European and global competitive challenges. This ...

Crecimiento autonómico 2004: centrado y convergente

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº 185, año 2005)

Consumption structure and macroeconomics

structural change and the relationship between inequality and growth

This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which enables to analyze macroeconomic models ...

La historia cuenta

del crecimiento económico del desarrollo humano sostenible

El esfuerzo por cambiar el mundo nunca es en balde.El desarrollo humano es una conquista social,no una secreción cutánea generada por el aumento de la circulación mercantil y la actividad del Estado a la que llamamos crecimiento económico.La crisis ecológica impone,además ...

Volatility and growth

It has long been recognized that productivity growth and the business cycle are closely interrelated. Yet, until recently, the two phenomena have been investigated separately in the economics literature. This book provides the first consistent attempt to analyze the effects of macroeconomic volatility on productivity ...

Reimagining growth

towards a renewal of development theory

For the past two decades,development theory has been trumped by development economics,while within economics itself the simplistic notions of neoclassical theory have prevailed with their assumption thet markets,freed up from all institutional restraints(including the state), will automatically deliver much higher rates ...

Modelos de desarrollo económico en América Latina

desequilibrio externo y concentración de riqueza

El objetivo fundamental de este libro estriba en analizar los diferentes modelos de desarrollo económico que se han ido manifestando en el transcurso de la historia económica latinoamericana a lo largo del siglo pasado. En el período analizado, las economías latinoamericanas estuvieron sometidas a profundas ...

Bridging research and policy in development

evidence and the change process

This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy. International policy making, with actors from different countries involved, is extremely complex and - when some of the actors are developing ...

Croissance et richesse des nations

A l'heure où l'on s'interroge sur le sens de la croissance, cet ouvrage entreprend une lecture à la fois historique et comparée des modalités de la croissance et de l'accumulation dans les pays développés. L'approche est institutionnaliste. Elle suit les ...

Lecturas sobre crecimiento económico

#¿Hay alguna medida que un gobierno de la India pueda tomar para que la economía de ese país crezca como la de Indonesia o la de Egipto? Si la hay, ¿cuál es exactamente? Si no, ¿qué hay en #la naturaleza de la India# que hace ...

Handbook of economic growth

"The Handbooks in Economics" series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks, which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. "The Handbook of Economic Growth", edited by Philippe Aghion ...

Otro siglo perdido

las políticas de desarrollo en América Latina (1930-2005)

En ésta obra póstuma, el autor hace un análisis moderno de la región latinoamericana desde el punto de vista de la economía del desarrollo; "no es un libro para economistas de altos vuelos, que se interesan sólo en las etapas de posgrado, con grandes refinamientos ...

Monetary Union

the European Union as a neo-liberal construction

This volume presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. It was neo- liberal rather than classically liberal because it was designed and used as an external instrument to weaken the interventionist welfare state that protected working people and ...

A course in monetary economics

sequential trade, money, and uncertainty

ÍNDICE Introduction Money in the Utility Function More Explicit Models of MoneyMonetary Economics and Public FinanceThe Regulation of Banks and Near MoneysMoney and the Business Cycle: Does Money Matter? Sticky Prices in a Cash-in-Advance ModelFlexible PricesUncertain and Sequential Trade (UST) ModelsA Monetary UST ModelLimited Participation ...