Author: E. Wayne Nafziger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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The growth in real income per person in the third-world nations of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, about twofold since 1950, is a mixed record. On the one hand, the growth warrants optimism, particularly in Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, China, other fast-growing Pacific Rim countries, and Brazil.
Author: Hla Myint (U.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Development economics, development theory, economic theory, study of different types of developing countries at different stages of economic development - covers economic policy, population growth, poverty, dual economy, economic structure, agricultural market expansion, wage policy for mines and plantation workers, migrant workers, input output, banking, investments, trade, monetary policy, disguised unemployment and underemployment. References.
Author: Michael P. Todaro
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780582071360
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 517
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The book is orientated towards the teaching of economics within the context of the major problems of development and underdevelopment in Third World nations and fills a major void in the teaching materials available for this purpose. It has been written for use by first-year economic students at universities throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Author: Eric A. Hanushek
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026254895X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann argue that message has become distorted, with politicians and researchers concentrating not on valued skills but on proxies for them. The common focus is on school attainment, although time in school provides a very misleading picture of how skills enter into development. Hanushek and Woessmann contend that the cognitive skills of the population—which they term the “knowledge capital” of a nation—are essential to long-run prosperity. Hanushek and Woessmann subject their hypotheses about the relationship between cognitive skills (as consistently measured by international student assessments) and economic growth to a series of tests, including alternate specifications, different subsets of countries, and econometric analysis of causal interpretations. They find that their main results are remarkably robust, and equally applicable to developing and developed countries. They demonstrate, for example, that the “Latin American growth puzzle” and the “East Asian miracle” can be explained by these regions' knowledge capital. Turning to the policy implications of their argument, they call for an education system that develops effective accountability, promotes choice and competition, and provides direct rewards for good performance.
Author: James M. Cypher
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415254168
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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This textbook includes discussions of such topics as the environment, the debt case, export-led industrialization, import substitution industrialization, growth theory and technological capability.
Author: Angus Maddison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415379892
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Jaime De Melo
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814494917
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Differences in the choices of trade and macro policies, both by developing countries and by developed countries towards developing countries, have been critical in determining the overall performance of developing countries. All too often, the performance of developing countries has not been assessed using appropriately conducted studies. The papers in this book are chosen to bridge this gap and show how a quantitative approach to policy evaluation can help resolve controversies and explain the choice of observed policies.The book brings together carefully selected papers that assess the impacts of various trade and macro policies, by quantifying the policies of developing countries at the macro level (exchange rate, investment, savings) and at the sector level (trade and industrial policies), in addition to policies of developed countries towards developing countries (trade preferences, quotas, VERs and migration policies). Facets of the political economy of trade, migration, and climate policies are explored (such as the enlargement of the EU, the rise of regionalism and how it can ease the pains of adjustment to trade liberalization, openness and inequality). Growing tensions between trade and the environment are also investigated. In short, this book covers a wide area of events ranging from external and internal shocks to external and internal policies, showing how the consequences of these events can be brought to rigorous quantitative analysis.
Author: Shahid Yusuf
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821377567
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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'This volume not only offers an invaluable retrospective of the World Bank's best thinking on development but also has the analytical caliber and policy insights to become an indispensable source for those dealing with the present and future growth and equity challenges faced by the developing countries.' -- Ernesto Zedillo
Author: Hla Myint
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780090731152
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: E. Wayne Nafziger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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