Financing development

the power of regionalism

The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. Editors Nancy Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez call for a more open and radical regionalism. They ...

Indices and indicators in development

an unherlthy obsession with numbers

The use of numbers to condense complex systems into easily digested 'bites' of information is very much in fashion. At one level they are intended to enhance transparency, accountability and local democracy, while at another they provide a means of enhancing performance. However, all indicators ...

China's Rural Market Development in the Reform Era

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict between government control and liberalization policies. Previous research ...

Business cycles and economic growth

an analysis using leading indicators

This volume is a collection of articles on business cycles from researchers across the globe, covering a wide spectrum of issues from forecasting, monitoring, and measurement of economic activity

Las claves de la prosperidad

mercados libres, moneda estable y un poco de suerte

Rudiger Dornbusch se consideraba a sí mismo #setenta por ciento norteamericano, veinte por ciento latinoamericano y diez por ciento alemán#, y fue sin duda uno de los intelectuales más comprometidos con el estudio de las economías latinoamericanas. Abogó por propuestas creativas para resolver la crisis ...

Desigualdad y cambio industrial

una perspectiva global

El presente libro ofrece un análisis global de la distribución de la remuneración salarial,aportando nuevas medidas sistemáticas.Sus distintos capítulos abarcan desde la estructura salarial estadounidense de 1920 a 1998 hasta la desigualdad de la remuneración y el desempleo en Europa desde 1970,pasando ...

Growth recurring

economic change in world history

This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, it is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. Eric Jones proposes two fundamentally new frameworks ...

A theory of interregional dynamics

models of capital, knowledge and economic structures

Introduction to development economics

Finance, research, education and growth

African business finance and development policy

Developing countries

definitions, concepts and comparisons

Qué es el desarrollo internacional

Analytical development economics

the less developed economy revisited

The Theory of economic growth

a "classical" perspective

The Theory of Economic Growth compares the main theories of growth from Adam Smith to the present day in order to isolate their logical structures, theoretical domains and methodological underpinnings. The book provides original solutions to theoretical questions still debated in contemporary literature and points ...

El modelo de crecimiento asiático

expresión de un capitalismo sui generis

In search of prosperity

analytic narratives on economic growth

The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of ...

Inequality and growth

theory and policy implications

Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain less than others, and a fraction of the population may actually ...

Economic development

This best-selling text offers a unique policy-oriented approach that uses models and concepts to illustrate real-world development problems. Retaining its hallmark accessibility throughout, the Eighth Edition uses the most current data, offering full coverage of recent advances in the field, and featuring a balanced presentation ...

Technology, growth and the labor market

In the late-20th and early-21st centuries, economic prognosticators have pondered whether the US economy has entered a new era. This "new economy" is generally characterized as having technological innovations that have raised productivity and, accordingly, removed pricing power from the world's producers on a ...