Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 658
Cover Image
Institutions and development
Shirley, Mary M. - 2008
A landmark contribution to our understanding of economic development. This significant book argues that fundamental changes in deeply rooted institutions do not happen because of outsiders' money, advice, pressures, or even physical force; which explains why foreign aid has not, and can not,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852013
Cover Image
The economic North-South divide : six decades of unequal development
Raffer, Kunibert - 2004 - Pbk. ed
South. Encouraged by recent successful opposition to neoliberalism, the authors finally propose ideas for a world where … Consensus' -- 5. Aid to development and the bipolar world -- 6. ODA after the Cold War : less money at tougher conditions -- 7 … -- 13. Textiles and apparel : double standards of adjustment and transition -- 14. Towards a more equal world order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852069
Cover Image
International handbook on migration and economic development
Lucas, Robert E. B. (ed.) - 2014
'This book addresses a largely unresolved mirror question. Does migration cause development or the other way around? As the contributors show, the compromise idea that they are mutually constitutive depends on a careful examination of the forms of migration (temporary, circular, permanent or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851309
Cover Image
Global exchange and poverty : trade, investment and migration
Squire, Lyn (contributor); Lucas, Robert E. B. (contributor) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851848
Cover Image
Handbook on the economics of foreign aid
Arvin, B. Mak (ed.); Lew, Byron (ed.) - 2015
It would be fair to say that foreign aid today is one of the most important factors in international relations and in the national economy of many countries – as well as one of the most researched fields in economics. Although much has been written on the subject of foreign aid, this book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851680
Cover Image
International migration and economic integration : understanding the immigrant-trade link
White, Roger - 2011
This essential volume examines the influence of immigrants on the process of international economic integration--specifically, their influences on bilateral and multilateral trade flows. It extends beyond the identification and explanation of the immigrant-trade link and offers a more expansive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851452
Cover Image
Migration and economic growth
Czaika, Mathias - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852163
Cover Image
Recent developments in the economics of international migration
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2012
'The economics of immigration literature has grown in the last decade to reflect the complexity of economic issues arising from international migration. This collection is a comprehensive research resource which allows both the student and scholar to keep abreast with traditional topics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852336
Cover Image
Population aging, intergenerational transfers and the macroeconomy
Clark, Robert Louis (contributor);  … - 2007
Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan / Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura -- Firm productivity, work-force age and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420024
Cover Image
Testing global interdependence : issues on trade, aid, migration and development
Aryeetey, Ernest (contributor);  … - 2007
developing and developed world and provides models of successful research conducted in developing and transition countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420041