Insurance against poverty

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack ...

Theories and practices of development

Environmental management and development

The continual degradation of the planet's environment is something that affects every person in every country, be it developed or developing. Statements and policies are made at international levels, but their effectiveness is questionable. Also, are techniques of environmental management (EM) used in the ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

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 ...

Leading issues in economic development

Growth and enpowerment

making development happen

The economics of illegal immigration

Global encounters

international political economy, development and globalization

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ciencia, tecnología, innovación y sociedad

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 ...

Capital theory

This comprehensive three volume edition brings together the most important contributions in capital theory from its classical origins to its modern instantiations in endogenous growth models. The readings examine the recurring controversies, and the two incisive, and sharply contrasting introduction by Bliss and by Cohen ...

The economics of adjustment and growth

This book provides a systematic and coherent framework for understanding the interactions between the micro and macro dimensions of economic adjustment policies; that is, it explores short-run macroeconomic management and structural adjustment policies aimed at promoting economic growth. It emphasizes the importance of structural microeconomic ...