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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS:

Development:

Economic Development

Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity
Edited by Tu Wei-Ming
Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace--in industrial East Asia.
Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
Development Encounters
Edited by Pauline E. Peters
Margarita Benavides
Anne Ferguson
Theodore Macdonald
Isaac Mazonde
Ajay Mehta
Paul Nkwi
Jesse Ribot
James Trostle
The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realized in actual practice. Two currently favored approaches are participation and indigenous knowledge. In these collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to "indigenous" knowledge, in the practice of development.
Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001
Economic Development in Central America, Volume 1, Growth and Internationalization
Edited by Felipe Larraín B
Benjamin Alvarez
Gerardo Esquivel
Cristina Garcia Lopez
Mauricio Jenkins
Luis F. Lopez-Calva
Andres Rodriguez-Clare
Jeffrey Sachs
Jose Tavares
This two-volume set is a comprehensive assessment of Central America's position in the world economy, and it serves as a handbook for the important economic reforms Central America must undertake to become a viable competitor in the international economy.
Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2001
The Economics of Adjustment and Growth
Pierre-Richard Agénor
This book provides a systematic and coherent framework for understanding the interactions between the micro and macro dimensions of economic adjustment policies; that is, it explores short-run macroeconomic management and structural adjustment policies aimed at promoting economic growth. It emphasizes the importance of structural microeconomic characteristics in the transmission of policy shocks and the response of the economy to adjustment policies. It has particular relevance to the economics of developing countries.
Hardcover 2004
Enterprise
Stuart Bruchey
Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
Globalization and the Rural Environment
Edited by Otto T. Solbrig
Edited by Robert Paarlberg
Edited by Francesco Di Castri
Contributions by Miguel Altieri
Contributions by V. Balaji
Contributions by Sandra Batie
Contributions by Jan Blom
Contributions by Carlos H. Cadoppi
Contributions by Nazri Choucri
Contributions by John H. Coatsworth
Contributions by Pierre Crosson
Contributions by Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla
Contributions by Otto Doering
Contributions by Juan Enriquez
Contributions by Rocio Fernandez Ales
Contributions by Eugenio Figueroa
Contributions by Wyn Grant
Contributions by Merilee S. Grindle
Contributions by Robert Horsch
Contributions by Anthony C. Janetos
Contributions by Jordan Kimball
Contributions by William Lockeretz
Contributions by Jerry Melillo
Contributions by Rolando Meninato
Contributions by Jean-Claude Monolou
Contributions by Lazaro Ojeda Quintana
Contributions by Angelo Palermo
Contributions by Roberto Peiretti
Contributions by Max Pfeffer
Contributions by Veronique Plocq Fichelet
Contributions by Beatrice Rogers
Contributions by Carlos A. Salvador
Contributions by Emilio Satorre
Contributions by Jose Maria Sumpsi Vinas
Contributions by Laura Vainesman
Contributions by Raul Vera
Contributions by Ernesto F. Viglizzo
Contributions by Talal Younes
Organized by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment, this interdisciplinary volume examines the impact of a variety of new technological, social, and economic trends on the rural environment.
Paperback 2001
Growth and Structural Transformation
Kwang Suk Kim
Michael Roemer
Hardcover 1979
Integrating the Americas
Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal
Edited by Dani Rodrik
Edited by Alan M. Taylor
Edited by Andr&eacutes Velasco
This work, based on a conference sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, examines how this free trade process is surging ahead, while at the same time taking on a broader set of issues including institutional reform, transparency, the environment, labor, and social cohesion.
Paperback 2004
The Mystery of Economic Growth
Elhanan Helpman
Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth--its makings and workings--is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. Helpman discusses the vast research that has revolutionized understanding of this subject in recent years, and summarizes and explains its critical messages in clear, concise, and accessible terms.
Hardcover 2004
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900
William Wayne Farris
W. Wayne Farris has developed the first systematic analysis of early Japanese population, the role of disease in economic development, and the impact of agricultural technology and practices. In doing so, he reinterprets the nature of ritsuryō institutions.
Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
Privatization for the Public Good?
Edited by Alberto Chong
Contributions by Suzanne Duryea
Contributions by Eliana La Ferrara
Contributions by Lorena Alcazar
Contributions by Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Contributions by Orazio Bellettini
Contributions by Fernando Carrillo-Florez
Contributions by Virgilio Galdo
Contributions by Sebastian Galiani
Contributions by Martin Gonzalez-Eiras
Contributions by Martin Gonzalez-Rozada
Contributions by Eduardo Nakasone
Contributions by Mauricio Olivera
Contributions by Martin A. Rossi
Contributions by Ernesto Schargrodsky
Contributions by Maximo Torero
Using unique household data sets for six Latin American countries, the essays collected in this volume put together a compelling picture of the effects of privatization.
Paperback 2008
Promoting and Sustaining Economic Reform in Zambia
Edited by Catharine B. Hill
Edited by Malcolm F. McPherson
Contributions by Bruce R. Bolnick
Contributions by Fernando R. Fernholz
Contributions by Clive S. Gray
Contributions by Deborah A. Hoover
Contributions by Tzvetana S. Rakovski
This collection of essays examines Zambia's efforts to promote economic reform during the 1990s. Following the restoration of democratic rule, the Government of Zambia adopted an ambitious program designed to stabilize the economy and lay the foundation for sustained growth and development. These essays describe the adjustment program, highlighting the attempts to reform the budget, the tax system, the financial system, agriculture and mining, and to create the human capacity to sustain the reforms.
Paperback 2004
Reconstructing Europe after the Great War
Dan P. Silverman
Hardcover 1982