The development of the financial sector in southeast Europe

innovative approaches in volatile environments

KfW has been assigned responsibility by the German government and several other donors for projects designed to reconstruct the financial landscapes of Southeast Europe. These activities are recognized as quite successful in building sustainable financial institutions that serve the small end of the market, with ...

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 ...

Recent developments in growth theory

This two volume collection examines the major developmen in growth theory over the past decade. Key papers by leading scholars cover new trends in theoretical and empirical research.

Essays on balance of payments constrained growth

theory and evidence

There are many theories concerning the reasons that the pace of development and the growth of national product differ between nations. One of the most interesting theories concerns the relationship between a country's balance of payments and its economic growth and development. It is ...

The future of economic growth

as new becomes old

'How significant was the internet boom and bust? Robert Boyer brings significant and fresh insight to efforts to situate the meaning of the digital transformation through which we are living. With analytic discipline and historical perspective, Boyer provides an important interpretation that will be valuable ...

The new regional politics of development

A broad-ranging assessment of the various development strategies being pursued in the various major regions of the world written to a tight editorial remit by leading authorities on each region. Its aim is to map new patterns of development and inequality moving beyond outdated distinctions ...

Innovation,entrepreneurship and culture

the interaction between technology,progress and economic growth

Any technological advance, innovation or economic growth created by an organization is dependent on how that organization's culture and environment fosters or inhibits these developments. This process is further complicated by the global nature of economic activity and differences in national cultures due to ...

Economic growth and macroeconomic dynamics

recent developments in economic theory

The development of the endogenous growth model rekindled interest in growth theory. In contrast to the neo-classical model, long-run endogenous growth emerged as an equilibrium outcome, reflecting the behavior of optimizing agents in the economy. This book brings together a number of contributions in growth ...

Building high-tech clusters

Silicon Valley and beyond

National economic growth is fueled by the development of high technology clusters such as Silicon Valley. The contributors examine the founding of ten clusters that have been successful at an early stage of growth in information technology. Their key finding is that the economics of ...

India's emerging economy

performance and prospects in the 1990s and beyond

India's economy over the last decade looks in many ways like a success story; after a major economic crisis in 1991, followed by bold reform measures, the economy has experienced a rapid economic growth rate, more foreign investment, and a boom in the information ...

Geographies of development

Geographies of Development is an established, innovative and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Development Geography, Development Studies and related fields. A pioneer of the holistic approach, it encourages critical engagement by integrating key topics throughout the text, such as development ideology, globalisation, modernity ...

From subsistence to exchange

and other essays

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings ...

Structural adjustment:the SAPRI report

the policy roots of economic crisis, poverty and inequality

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. The World Bank and the IMF have compelled country after country to adopt a "one size fits all" economic strategy, so exposing the world's weakest economies to ...

Development and the developing world

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of development and the developing world. Written in a clear and accessible way, it introduces students to the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in development studies, and provides a guide to contemporary issues and current ...

Growth fetish

Written primarily for students taking courses in managerial economics in Britain and Europe, The Business Economics and Managerial Decision Making analyses the growth and development of privately owned firms and also the decisions made by firms operating in both private and public sector enterprises. Coverage ...

Growing public

social spending and economic growth since the eigteenth century.Vol.I.The story

Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations ...

Fianza e crescita. Quali vincoli, quali rischi

Quanto conta la finanza per la crescita? Quale il ruolo svolto dalle istituzioni, dalle banche, dalle borse, dalle imprese e dalle regole? Gli elementi da tenere in considerazione nel tentativo di dare una risposta sono molteplici e a diversi livelli: sia macroeconomico, sia microeconomico. Questo ...

Wassily Leontief and input-output economics

Wassily Leontief (1905-1999) was the founding father of input-output economics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1973. This book offers a collection of papers in memory of Leontief by his students and close colleagues. ÍNDICE : 1. A portrait of the master as a ...

Conocimiento, tecnología y crecimiento

nuevas orientaciones y recomendaciones estratégicas en una economía globalizada

Este libro organiza sistemáticamente y profundiza en el conocimiento teórico de las complejas relaciones entre tecnología y economía que determinan la evolución de la "productividad" y el crecimiento económico.

Knowledge for development?

comparing british, japanese, swedish and World Bank aid

ÍNDICE:1. Researching Knowledge-Based Aid - Setting the Scene - Research Questions - A New Way of Researching: a New Way of Working - The Structure of the Book 2. The New Aid Agenda - The Changing Fashions of Development Cooperation - Aid Discourse at the Start of the New Millennium ...