El conocimiento y la riqueza de las naciones

el enigma del crecimiento económico, su historia y su explicación moderna

En 1980, Paul Romer, estudiante de doctorado de veinticuatro años, trató de resolver uno de los enigmas más antiguos en economía. Ocho años más tarde lo había resuelto. Este libro cuenta la historia de lo que se denomina la nueva teoría del crecimiento económico: la ...

Upgrading clusters and small enterprises in developing countries

environmental, labor, innovation and social issues

Ed. Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the last two decades, the concept of cluster has become popular both in academia and in practice. As small and medium sized firms (SMEs) were acknowledged as effective sources of jobs and income, they gained an important position ...

Trade liberalisation and the poverty of Nations

Orthodox trade and growth theory, and the world's multilateral development institutions, extol the virtues of trade liberalisation and free trade for more rapid economic development of poor countries. However, the contemporary reality and history seem to tell a different story. The world economy has ...

Institutions and economic performance

Ed. Elhana Helpman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Institutions and Economic Performance" explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others ...

Tourism and sustainability

development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

"If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale", so concludes the World Bank's 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy first world ...

China

radiografía de una potencia en ascenso

Coord. Romer Cornejo. Este libro ofrece un análisis explicativo, desde diversas perspectivas, de la especificidad de China hoy en cuanto a su relación económica y diplomática con el mundo, las complejidades de la sociedad y la cultura, los cambios en el sistema político y en ...

Diaspora, development, and Democracy

the domestic impact of international migration from India

What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, "Diaspora, Development, and Democracy" provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries ...

Crecimiento y desequilibrios de la economía española (1995-2006)

El análisis de la evolución del producto, la renta y el gasto de la economía española durante los últimos años pone de manifiesto claros desajustes macroeconómicos mutuamente implicados: a) el desequilibrio entre producción y gasto, b) el déficit exterior corriente y c) la insuficiencia de ...

Crisis y regímenes de crecimiento

una introducción a la teoría de la regulación

Al mismo tiempo que emergen nuevos países industrializados, las economías de antigua industrialziación no han recuperado el ritmo de crecimiento de los años sesenta. ¿Por qué? La teoría de la regulación fue conocida primero por haber aportado una respuesta en términos de auge y luego ...

The road to organic growth

This work features compelling real-world examples from leading companies such as Best Buy, SYSCO, Stryker Corporation, Outback Steakhouse, and American Eagle. It offers fresh, new, and often- surprising perspectives from the field on what it really takes to foster organic growth. Basing his recommendations on ...

The moral consequences of economic growth

From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan#s economic policy (#Every citizen should read it,# said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that broadly distributed economic growth provides benefits far beyond the material, creating and strengthening democratic ...

La calidad de las intervenciones de desarrollo

fundamentos y herramientas para mejorar el diseño

¿Cuáles son las claves para diseñar programas y proyectos de desarrollo eficaces y participativos?¿Cómo prever cambios técnicos, políticos o sociales que puedan afectar a las actuaciones?¿Qué se puede hacer para asegurar que los efectos de las acciones se mantengan a lo largo del ...

General equilibrium, overlapping generations models, and optimal growth theory

This book presents an original exposition of general equilibrium theory for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students of economics. It contains detailed discussions of economic efficiency, competitive equilibrium, the first and second welfare theorems, the Kuhn-Tucker approach to general equilibrium, the Arrow-Debreu model, and rational expectations ...

Inequality and growth

theory and policy implications

Leading international economists discuss how and why institutions influence growth; empirical and theoretical studies that provide an overview and contribute to the current research. Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation ...

Sobrevivir al desarrollo

de la descolonización del imaginario económico a la construcción de una sociedad alternativa

Social, humano, local, sostenible... Recientemente, el desarrollo se ha revestido de 'trajes nuevos' que satisfacen los criterios de organizaciones internacionales como el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional. Pero la lógica económica sigue siendo la misma, y el modelo de desarrollo sigue conforme a ...

The Law-growth nexus

An increasingly popular view holds that institutions--in particular, the rule of law--are the keys to unlocking the developing world's full growth potential. But what exactly does this mean? Which legal institutions matter and why? How can policymakers use this knowledge to promote growth? In ...

Does foreign aid really work?

Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer this important question have been dominated by a focus on the impact ...

Debt defaults and lessons from a decade of crises

This work provides detailed case studies of debt defaults by Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Moldova, and Uruguay, framed by a comprehensive discussion of the history, economic theory, legal issues, and policy lessons of sovereign debt crises. The debt crises in emerging market countries over the ...

Advancing development

core themes in global economies

Leading scholars and policymakers reflect on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen during the next two decades. Covering the major themes in development in an accessible way, this original and authoritative contribution highlights new and emerging issues, and shows how research ...

Financial stability, economic growth and the role of Law

Financial crises have become an all too common occurrence over the past twenty years, largely as a result of changes in finance brought about by increasing internationalization and integration. As domestic financial systems and economies have become more interlinked, weaknesses can significantly impact not only ...