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This book explores key economic problems and new policies for the global economy of the 21st century. The contributors discuss to what extent past policy errors were due to the incompetence of policymakers, and highlight problems including: international payments imbalances and currency crises,...
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The distinguished authors in this volume address the fundamental causes for such heterogeneous international experiences, placing particular emphasis on the role of institutions. They demonstrate how the study of economic development is increasingly linked to the development of institutions,...
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How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding...
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The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on innovation and economic growth, focussing on a broad...
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pt. I. Financial globalization and world money -- pt. II. Currency crises and bailouts -- pt. III. Growth and the …
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Economists have long relied on cross-country regression analysis to identify the determinants of continued growth, but with only limited success. This book demonstrates the value of a different approach
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The authors in this book regard the process of economic expansion as a non-homogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon which has deeply affected human welfare, and cultural, social and political change. The book is a bridge between the theorists (Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Myrdal, and Hirschmann) who...
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The current paradigm shift in the world economy is challenging the traditional competitiveness and growth theories with … efficient due to the current transformation of the world economy. His empirical data from 22 OECD countries in the 1980s and …
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The record of global economic development analyses the long-term and current economic forces which promote or impede globalisation, drawing on the experience of economic history to help interpret major trends in modern economies
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Stark (2004), 'Rethinking the Brain Drain', World Development, 32 (1), 15-22 -- Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Cecily … Oden-Defoort (2011), 'A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain', World Development, 39 (4), 523-32 -- Richard H. Adams Jr …. and John Page (2005), 'Do International Migration and Remittances Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries?', World …
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