Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Tables -- Boxes -- Figures -- Acknowledgement -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE - Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Theoretical Debates and Experiences from Developing Regions -- 1. The Case for a...

Pakistan's development efforts are guided by its 2011 Framework for Economic Growth, which identifies actions needed to create a prosperous, industrialized Pakistan through rapid and sustainable development. Industrialization has the potential to drive Pakistan's economic growth and contribute...

The world's environmental future will be determined in significant part by what happens in the rapidly industrializing and urban economies of Asia. This work examines the prospects for and pathways to the shaping of a development future that is far less energy-, materials- and waste-intensive.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One: Introduction -- 1. Accounting for Growth and Decline in Venezuela -- 2. Trends and Cycles in the Venezuelan Economy -- Part Two: A Critical Survey of the "Resource Curse" Literature...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Measurement -- Specifying the industrial revolution -- The causes of the industrial revolution -- Part One: Writing and Rewriting History --...

Our purpose here is to challenge the "big-bang" approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency...

Das deutsche Bildungßsystem steht unter enormem Veränderungsdruck. Um die Schulen auf die Zukunft vorzubereiten und große Investitionsprogramme zu ermöglichen, haben Bund und Länder beschlossen, das Grundgesetz zu ändern. Dazu gehört auch die Öffnung von Artikel 104c. Der Bund wird...