Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 455
Cover Image
The Asian 'poverty miracle' : impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements
Wan, Guang Hua (contributor); Silber, Jacques (contributor) - 2016
Following rapid economic growth in recent decades, Asia and the Pacific experienced an impressive reduction in extreme … 'poverty miracle' and argues for the development and use of an Asia-specific poverty line. This is a timely and … multidimensional assessment of the much-neglected issues of, and links between, poverty, vulnerability, and ethnicity in Asia. It will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419895
Cover Image
Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations
Jones, Eric (contributor); Bernholz, Peter (contributor);  … - 2004
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851995
Cover Image
The rise of Asia : the 'flying-geese' theory of tandem growth and regional agglomeration
Ozawa, Terutomo - 2009
Terutomo Ozawa introduces a newly reformulated theory of 'flying-geese' economic development, exploring Asia's dynamic … growth and financial development. This unique book shows how the flying-geese theory can be expanded and applied to both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852085
Cover Image
Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable development : principles and practices with Asian examples
Tisdell, Clement Allan - 1999
This important book highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of sustainable development. It places particular emphasis on biological diversity and examines possible policies for resolving conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473841
Cover Image
Inequality and economic development : the modern perspective
Galor, Oded (contributor) - 2009
', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115 (4), November, 1167-99 -- Oded Galor and Omer Moav (2006), 'Das Human-Kapital: A Theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852249
Cover Image
Inequality, growth and 'hot' money
Bortz, Pablo G. - 2016
Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Growth and distribution: the last 300 years -- 3. Growth and distribution: the Kaleckian perspective -- 4. An integration of the real and the monetary economy -- 5. Financial flows, distribution and capital controls -- 6. Epilogue: challenges and possibilities.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419858
Cover Image
Aggregate demand, inequality and instability
Ferri, Piero - 2016
1. Introduction -- Part I: basic concepts -- 2. Piketty's contribution -- 3. Measurement -- 4. Inequality and aggregate demand -- Part II: endogenous dynamics and instability -- 5. Aggregate demand, growth and instability -- 6. Wealth, public debt and instability -- 7. Recursive workhorses --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419908
Cover Image
Economic behavior and distributional choice : selected writings of Harold M. Hochman
Hochman, Harold M. - 2002
distributional preference as developed through public choice theory. This fine collection illustrates Harold M. Hochman's major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473874
Cover Image
Fiscal policy and social welfare : an analysis of alternative tax and transfer systems
Creedy, John - 1996
In Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare John Creedy examines alternative tax and transfer systems and their redistributive effects. Drawing on original research, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social welfare and income distribution. After reviewing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473921
Cover Image
Income distribution in a corporate economy
Rimmer, Russell J. - 1993
theory and industrial economics. The final chapters contain an analysis of the short-run effects of changes in pricing … theory to the short run, including accounts of attempts to synthesise the major theoretical strands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473939