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Institutions, economic performance and the visible hand : theory and evidence
Chakravarti, Ashok - 2012
The book challenges the conventional wisdom on the determinants of economic performance and provides an alternative vision of the functioning of an economic system. The author provides a structured survey which critically evaluates the theory and evidence of neoclassical approaches to growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851396
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Understanding economic development : a global transition from poverty to prosperity?
White, Colin M. - 2009
This fascinating book considers one of the most important problems in economics: the inception of modern economic development. There is at present no satisfactory explanation of the inception of modern economic development; an excessive focus on either pure theory or on unique histories limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851400
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New developmentalism : introducing a new economics and political economy
Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos - 2024
"This timely book offers a concise summary of new developmentalism, exploring this in the context of both heterodox economics and political economy. It adopts a historical-structural method that is critical of orthodox or Neoclassical Economics. Luis Carlos Bresser-Pereira delves into the roots...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512165
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Economic reform in China and India : development experience in a comparative perspective
Chai, C. H. - 2006
India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850640
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Information communication technology and economic development : learning from the Indian experience
Stough, Roger (contributor);  … - 2005
globalization. It shows how the generation and circulation of intellectual capital in the US and India in ICT have led to greater … productivity in the US while facilitating the economic development of India. Most industrialized nations now see the vast … intellectual capital-based services that India provides at extremely competitive rates as key to their own national competitiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851177
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Handbook on the South Asian economies
Chowdhury, Anis (contributor);  … - 2008
1. India / S. Mahendra Dev -- 2. Pakistan / Parvez Hasan -- 3. Bangladesh / Wahiduddin Mahmud -- 4. Sri Lanka / Saman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851256
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Development economics and structuralist macroeconomics : essays in honor of Lance Taylor
Dutt, Amitava Krishna (contributor); Ros, Jaime (contributor) - 2003
Lance Taylor is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent development economists in the world and is known for his work on development planning, macroeconomics of development, stabilization policy, and the global economy. He has also been the major force behind structuralist economics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850847
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Dynamics of uneven development
Mainwaring, Lynn - 1991
This important new book critically examines the argument that structural asymmetries between the rich, industrialised countries of the global 'north' or 'centre' and the poor, largely primary-producing countries of the 'south' or 'periphery' could be responsible for an unequal division of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473928
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Trade policy reforms and development : essays in honour of Peter Lloyd. Volume II
Lloyd, Peter John (contributor);  … - 2005
Trade Policy Reforms and Development, comprises 11 essays offering new contributions on the following topics: globalisation and political economy of trade; trade, labour standards and economic crisis; the changing role of the WTO; competition policy and the WTO; choice of formulas for market access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850921
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Uneven paths of development : innovation and learning in Asia and Africa
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanji - 2009
This book focuses on what can be learned from the complex processes of industrial, technological and organizational change in the sectoral system of information hardware (IH). The IH innovation system is deliberately chosen to illustrate how sectors act as seeds of economic progress. Detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851295