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This is an insightful analysis of the Chinese economy in the context of globalization after China's admission to the WTO. The book is organized into four parts. The first part addresses globalization and privatization. The second part deals with fiscal policy and financial development. The third part focuses on international trade and industrial development, and the fourth part is devoted to economic performance and the labour market. This is an in-depth study that is supported by updated data and quantitative analysis, which provide a rich basis for better understanding possible future directions and challenges of the Chinese economy. This volume is an indispensable source for scholars and students interested in Chinese economic studies and many chapters should also be of interest to a wide range of readers.
In this easy-to-follow, one-stop reference, Dinc discusses a new and dynamic endogenous regional development approach that delves deeply into a variety of topics: the globalization process and its impact on local and regional economies; theoretical evolution of economic development; the role of governance; and institutions and local leadership in the development process. The book reviews major traditional local and regional development theories from their origins and early applications as well as regional agglomerations and industrial clusters. It also introduces conflict management procedures into the regional development process and provides a regional decision support framework that can be used for informed development policymaking. Another advantage of this book is its discussion of basic analytical tools and the inclusion of a template in an easy-to-use MS Excel spreadsheet application. Though the book follows a logical narrative, each chapter can be read individually without a loss of meaning, making it perfect for classrooms. Introduction to Regional Economic Development will prove to be an invaluable resource for teachers and students of regional science, regional development, and planning, as well as regional and local development practitioners, regional development agency staff, and local government officials.
There is now a wide spread interest in regions as a key focus in
the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth
creation. This important book considers the factors that influence
and shape the competitive performance of regions.
As Bolivia reels from the collapse of the government in November 2019, a wave of social protests, and now the impact of Covid-19, this book asks: where next for Bolivia? After almost 14 years in power, the government of Bolivia's first indigenous president collapsed in 2019 amidst widescale protest and allegations of electoral fraud. The contested transitional government that emerged was quickly struck by the impacts of the Covid-19 public health crisis. This book reflects on this critical moment in Bolivia's development from the perspectives of politics, the economy, the judiciary and the environment. It asks what key issues emerged during Evo Morales's administration and what are the main challenges awaiting the next government in order to steer the country through a new and uncertain road ahead. As the world considers what the ultimate legacy of Morales's left-wing social experiment will be, this book will be of great interest to researchers across the fields of Latin American studies, development, politics, and economics, as well as to professionals active in the promotion of development in the country and the region.
Tourism is a fast-growing and changing industry, which has become a driver of economic development in both developed and underdeveloped countries. While the tourism industry's potential for shared value creation and sustainable development is acknowledged, the concerns around the environmental and social pressures remain a challenge for businesses, organizations, and destinations. This is because sustainable tourism arguably conflicts with the predominant neoliberal structure of the economy and with the hierarchical, profit- and consumption-driven societies. The emphasis on competition, growth, and profitability may undermine economic viability itself by consuming unreproducible resources and by undermining the six essential elements-dignity, people, prosperity, social justice, planet, and partnership-that are conceptually linked to sustainable development. The crises recurrently challenging the global travel and tourism environment, including climate change, bushfires, extreme weather disasters, pandemics, and the financial crisis, show the weaknesses of neoliberal approaches and the collective economic dependency of countries on tourism that is vulnerable, if not completely unsustainable. This vulnerability asks for understanding that the collective future depends on developing entirely new approaches and interpretation of tourism to effectively respond to the human, societal, social, and climate challenges. This book offers a novel and original perspective entailing the application of a humanistic management approach to sustainable tourism, which is centered on the value of human life, the protection of human dignity and the promotion of well-being. Multiple theoretical approaches, methods, and practical cases, on an international scale, shed light on shared value creation and human dignity as a necessary condition for its achievement in different contexts. Implicitly and explicitly, they respond to the current urgency to implement strategies to recover from the worldwide impact of the pandemic crisis and to provide a vision of what tourism could and should be when it recovers. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and postgraduates in the fields of management, sustainability, and tourism development.
Taken in conjunction the author's earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume provides a thoroughly workmanlike study of the rise and progress of industrialism. Here she surveys the main developments in the agricultural, industrial, mechanical transport and commercial policy of France. Germany, Russia and the United States. It provides the handiest manual available of the comparative history of industrialism. It is an absolute godsend to students. This book was first published in 1932.
This book breaks fresh ground in the most challenging aspect of
economics and economic history the nature of economic growth.
Of all fluctuations in economic activity, the long wave or
Kondratieff cycle is easily the most puzzling and least understood
one. Does it really exist, and if so, is it only a cycle in prices
or a cycle in economic activity at large? What causes it, and has
it been confined to Europe or does it affect the world economy as a
whole?
First published in 1967, Professor Bairochs Diagnostic de
LEvolution Economique du Tiers-Monde has gone into four editions,
and has brought the author an international reputation.
Hailed a "an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the way
in which western economies work" ["Times Literary Supplement"],
this penetrating study of economic growth compares and analyzes tic
rates of economic advance in the twelve leading countries that
comprise the industrial West. Mr. Maddison examines why, after
relative stagnation for several decades, the rate of economic
development accelerated in continental Europe in the 1950s, whether
this represented a new economic pattern which could be maintained
or was only a passing phase of recovery after World War II. He
observes that the economies of North America and the United Kingdom
seemed by comparison almost to stand still, and he explores the
influence of economic policy on the differing growth rates, and the
growth potentials and desirable lines of policy in the industrial
West. He then discusses the major powers policy problems, whose
outcome so closely affects the developing nations.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In terms of output, the USSR and Japan account for one-fifth of the
world's economy, occupying second and third places behind the
United States. Japan has the world's fastest growth of per capita
income and the USSR has not lagged far behind. But a century ago
they were static feudal societies. This study analyzes the policies
which enabled them to transform their economies adn to catch up
with the developed world.
The management of, and access to, water resources have been universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security and sustainable development in developing, transitional, and developed countries worldwide. Yet good "water governance," so eagerly sought, has in practice proven difficult to achieve. This book, edited and authored by leading authorities on water resource management, examines the recent changes in governance, institutions, economics, and policies of water, from a global point of view and a cross-country perspective, with special emphasis on African and Southern African case studies.The authors show that in recent years, water policies, institutions, and governance have shifted from technical, quantitative, supply-driven, centrally controlled management to more demand-sensitive, qualitative, decentralized, participatory, integrated approaches. Such a move also often supposes cost recovery principles, resource allocation among competing sectors, and privatization. In most developing countries, motivations for these changes have been increased resource scarcity, increased diversity of users and uses, urbanization, financial constraints and the need for sustainable development through renewed water management. Yet the creation and operation of new policies and legal frameworks often fall short of initial expectations since management transfer and decentralization processes, cost recovery principles and the emergence of new local organizations have proven difficult to implement. The book examines these issues through case studies at national, river basin, and local levels using accessible multidisciplinary approaches that integrate economics, institutional analysis, geography, and policy analysis. Ultimately the book untangles and presents best practices for policy and decision makers, governments and regulators, NGOs and user groups, farmers, water-supply companies, and researchers, and points towards how good water governance structures can be developed and implemented for the benefit of all.
In the "World Library of Educationalists "series, international
experts themselves compile career- long collections of what they
judge to be their finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles,
salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical
contributions-so the world can read them in a single manageable
volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of
their work and see their contribution to the development of a
field.
This book enlarges our understanding of economic development by
bringing together items or aspects of historical experience
relevant to the present-day problems of developing countries; by
looking at the problems over a longer period than is usual in
development economics, so that the influence of underlying forces
may be made evident; and by comparing the experiences of different
countries in similar situations.
In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender issues and covers every conceivable angle of unpaid work and all its ramifications for the modern economy. The unified vision offered by this group of leading contributors ensures this book is a work of excellent quality. There is every chance it will become a seminal study on unpaid work and as such will provide a useful reference for students and academics involved in gender studies, econometrics, and consumption studies.
Including contributions from noted international scholars, this collection of papers provides a strong theoretical and empirical underpinning for the discussion of major public policy issues facing Turkey today. Matters addressed include: determinants of growth and productivity education and human capital accumulation income inequality corporate control and government performance of the government sector impact of major public policy issues on the future growth prospects of the Turkish economy. This volume relates the impact of major public policy issues on the future growth prospects of the Turkish economy. At a time when Turkey is currently attempting to gain membership to the European Union, this pertinent reference questions whether the country's economy is in fact ready for EU accession and membership.
First published in 1989. This book considers two major aspect of China's economic reform: the 'open policy' towards the West, aimed at attracting technology and skills into the country and the emphasis on 'regionalization' which established market-orientated rather than bureaucratically-controlled patterns of economic development.
First published in 1980. This book analyzes Chinese society and evaluates the achievements and failures of the Maoist ideology. The central theme is the urban and rural balance in China's development from the Revolution to the late twentieth century. The Fading of the Maoist Vision shows how the original Revolutionary blueprint was altered and the ways in which China has steered a different course from that charted by Mao as the ideological vision encountered an increasingly pressing set of economic realities. The book: * Is particularly valuable in setting China's achievements in the larger context of global ideas about the problems of national development and by comparing them to the experience of India in its pursuit of the Gandhian ideal.
First Published in 2005. Part of a series on Economic History, this book looks at Tropical Development from 1880 to 1913. These essays were prepared during the year 1967-8 for the tropics modern economic development began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century with its revolutionary reduction of transport costs and heavy international flow of capital.
Sidney Pollard has provided a concise survey of economic issues
for students of the European community. Going back to 1815, he links the progress of industrialisation in Europe to the relative ease with which ideas, men and capital were able to cross national frontiers. European frontiers make little economic sense and frequently cut across vital natural links. Professor Pollard shows how open frontiers speeded progress, in the particular circumstances of the spread of industrialisation from Britain to Western Europe and then to the rest of the continent, adn opened up new markets and opportunities of learning and technology transfer. Closed frontiers and the national selfishness of economic warfare led in contrast to stagnation, hostility and at times to all-out war. This classic study was first published in 1981.
A great deal has been talked about the economic recovery of Western
Germany since the Second World War. It is know htat this recovery
was accompanied by the return of the Federal Republic to the
markets of the world. Not so much is know abotu the details - about
the work effected through the opitimism of the Minister for
Economics, Professor Ludwig Erhard.
GIS for Sustainable Development examines how GIS applications can improve collaboration in decision making among those involved in promoting sustainable development. This volume reviews leading GIScience, providing an overview of research topics and applications that enable GIS newcomers and professionals to apply GIScience methods to sustainable spatial planning. Divided into three parts, the book begins with an introduction to the issues of sustainability, focusing on concepts concerning GIS adoption and use within public organizations that are planning development. Part II focuses on GIScience methods, which can be used to support sustainable development and solve environmental problems. Part III presents research projects and best practices relating to different areas of application within the field. This text provides the latest research findings, delivers complete references to related publications, and supplies you with a complete reference framework for each topic. A
The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding streams and ultimately determining what success looks like. This book provides a much needed overview of the project in international development practice, guiding the reader through the latest theoretical debates, and exploring the core tools and stages of planning and design. The book starts with an overview of the role of the project through development history, before taking the reader through the stages of a standard project management cycle. Each chapter introduces the stage, the most common tools used to support that phase of planning, and the critical debates that exist around it, with examples to illustrate discussion from around the world and a range of development fields. The book explores the challenges to working effectively in contemporary aid conetxts, including the role of politics and the pressures wrought by the demands to demonstrate quantified results. Throughout, the book argues for the need to see the project as a form of governmentality that arranges resources and people in time and space, and which extends neoliberal forms of managerial control in the sector. Ending with suggestions for innovation, this book is perfect for anyone looking for an accessible and engaging guide to the international development project, whether student, researcher or practitioner.
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