Category: Development Growth

By Janos Kovacs

ISBN-10: 0415066301

ISBN-13: 9780415066303

Can the economics of japanese Europe make the dramatic transition from centrally-planned to market-led economics? This booklet attempts to appreciate the highbrow historical past in the back of this transformation and the issues of handling it.

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

ISBN-10: 9264101675

ISBN-13: 9789264101678

Oecd's 2013 fiscal Survey of Iceland examines fresh financial advancements, rules and clients. It contains a precise function on reinforcing the general public debt aid strategy.

By Paul De Grauwe, Anna Asbury

ISBN-10: 0191826855

ISBN-13: 9780191826856

ISBN-10: 0198784287

ISBN-13: 9780198784289

Translated from the Dutch via Anna Asbury

Paul De Grauwe examines why a fit mixture of marketplace and nation turns out so tricky and analyses the interior and exterior limits of the industry and the govt., and the swing among those points

By JunJie Wu, Joshua M. Duke

ISBN-10: 0199763747

ISBN-13: 9780199763740

What do economists find out about land-and how they recognize? The Oxford guide of Land Economics describes the newest advancements within the fields of economics that learn land, together with average source economics, environmental economics, nearby technological know-how, and concrete economics. The guide argues, first, that land is a topic that integrates those fields and moment, that efficient integration more and more happens not only inside of economics but additionally throughout disciplines. larger reputation and integration stimulates cross-fertilization one of the fields of land economics study. via supplying a finished survey of land-related paintings in numerous economics fields, this guide offers the fundamental instruments wanted for economists to redefine the scope and concentration in their paintings to raised contain the modern considering from different fields and to push out the frontiers of land economics.

The first part offers fresh advances within the research of significant drivers of land use switch, concentrating on monetary improvement and diverse land-use markets. the second one part provides financial study at the environmental and socio-economic affects of land use and land use swap. The 3rd part addresses six state-of-the-art methods for land economics study, together with spatial econometric, simulation, and experimental equipment. The part additionally features a man made bankruptcy severely reviewing methodological advances. The fourth part covers coverage matters. 4 chapters disentangle the economics of land conservation and renovation, whereas 3 chapters research the commercial research of the criminal associations of land use. those chapters concentrate on legislations and financial difficulties of permissible executive keep watch over of land within the U.S. context.

By John H. Marburger III

ISBN-10: 0674417097

ISBN-13: 9780674417090

In a occupation that integrated tenures as president of Stony Brook college, director of Brookhaven nationwide Laboratory, and technology consultant to President George W. Bush, John Marburger (1941–2011) stumbled on himself at the entrance line of battles that pulled technological know-how ever deeper into the political enviornment. From nuclear energy to worldwide warming and stem cellphone learn, technological know-how controversies, he chanced on, are by no means with regards to technology. Science coverage Up Close provides Marburger’s reflections at the demanding situations technology directors face within the twenty-first century.

In every one section of public carrier Marburger got here into touch with a brand new measurement of technological know-how coverage. The Shoreham fee uncovered him to the matter of dealing with a risky public controversy over nuclear strength. The Superconducting large Collider episode gave him insights into the collision among executive requisites and scientists’ expectancies and emotions of entitlement. The Directorship of Brookhaven taught him how you can seek advice from the general public concerning the dangers of engaging in high-energy physics and approximately huge govt examine amenities. As Presidential technology consultant he needed to symbolize either the medical neighborhood to the management and the management to the clinical neighborhood at a time whilst both sides used to be hugely suspicious of the other.

What Marburger understood sooner than so much others was once this: until eventually the ultimate area of the 20 th century, technological know-how were principally protected against public scrutiny and govt supervision. this present day that's not actual. Scientists and technology coverage makers can study from Marburger what they have to do now to enhance their grip on their lonesome work.

By Andrew Graham, Anthony Seldon

ISBN-10: 0203167813

ISBN-13: 9780203167816

ISBN-10: 0415072883

ISBN-13: 9780415072885

ISBN-10: 0585460493

ISBN-13: 9780585460499

Executive and Economies within the Postwar global offers a set of essays that evaluation the postwar histories of ten nations. The individuals talk about the most pursuits and tools of monetary coverage, the institutional framework, and the political constitution in their topics, as they've got taken form because the moment international conflict. jointly, those reviews current a entire portrait of the genesis of present day unstable international.

By Alfredo Saad-Filho, Galip L. Yalman

ISBN-10: 041549253X

ISBN-13: 9780415492539

Neoliberalism is predicated at the systematic use of country energy to impose, below the veil of ‘non-intervention’, a hegemonic venture of recomposition of capitalist rule in so much parts of social existence. The tensions and displacements embedded inside worldwide neoliberalism are nowhere extra obvious than within the middle-income international locations. on the household point, the neoliberal transitions have remodeled considerably the cloth foundation of social replica in those nations. those modifications comprise, yet they don't seem to be constrained to, shifts in monetary and social coverage. in addition they surround the constitution of estate, the modality of insertion of the rustic into the foreign economic system, and the family sorts of exploitation and social domination. The political counterpart of those procedures is the quandary of the family political sphere throughout the insulation of ‘markets’ and traders from social responsibility and the imposition of a far better valuable of labour keep watch over, allegedly as a way to safe overseas competitiveness.

These financial and political shifts have diminished the scope for common welfare provision and resulted in regressive distributive shifts and better unemployment and activity lack of confidence in so much international locations. they've got additionally created an income-concentrating dynamics of accumulation that has confirmed proof against Keynesian and reformist interventions. This publication examines those demanding situations and dilemmas analytically, and empirically in numerous nationwide contexts.

This edited assortment bargains a theoretical critique of neoliberalism and a evaluate of the contrasting stories of 8 middle-income nations (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey and Venezuela). The stories incorporated are interdisciplinary, ranging throughout economics, sociology, anthropology, diplomacy, political technological know-how and comparable social sciences. The booklet specializes in a materialist knowing of the workings of neoliberalism as a modality of social and financial copy, and its daily practices of dispossession and exploitation. it is going to for that reason be of specific curiosity to students in business coverage, neoliberalism and improvement strategy.

By Sarah Earl

ISBN-10: 0889369593

ISBN-13: 9780889369597

Final result Mapping presents not just a advisor to crucial evaluate map-making, but in addition a advisor to studying and elevated effectiveness, and confirmation that paying attention alongside the adventure is as very important as, and significant to, arriving at a vacation spot. - Michael Quinn PattonMore and extra, improvement agencies are stressed to illustrate that their courses bring about major and lasting alterations within the healthiness in their meant beneficiaries. in spite of the fact that, such ''impacts'' are frequently the made from a confluence of occasions for which no unmarried organisation or workforce of enterprises can realistically declare complete credits. for that reason, assessing improvement affects is frustrating, but many enterprises proceed to fight to degree effects a ways past the succeed in in their courses. ''Outcome Mapping'' acknowledges that improvement is basically approximately humans when it comes to one another and their atmosphere. The originality of this method lies in its shift clear of assessing the goods of a software to target adjustments in behaviour, relationships, activities, and actions within the humans, teams, and firms it really works with at once. In doing so, ''Outcome Mapping'' debunks the various myths approximately measuring effect. it is going to aid a application be particular concerning the actors it ambitions, the adjustments it expects to determine, and the recommendations it employs and, for this reason, be better by way of the consequences it achieves. This ebook explains many of the steps within the final result mapping process and gives designated info on workshop layout and facilitation. It comprises a variety of worksheets and examples.

By World Bank

ISBN-10: 0821339923

ISBN-13: 9780821339923

This record evaluates the nation's swift monetary progress and indicates coverage priorities and reforms on the subnational point to maintain India's fiscal functionality.

By OECD Publishing

ISBN-10: 9264039511

ISBN-13: 9789264039513

ISBN-10: 926403952X

ISBN-13: 9789264039520

Arithmetic instructing and studying thoughts in PISA makes use of facts from the PISA 2003 overview to envision the relationships among instructing options, scholar studying innovations and arithmetic success. The document goals to spot tutorial practices and studying techniques that give a contribution to elevated fulfillment in arithmetic and basic wisdom. It then explains how those recommendations should be on the topic of diversified nations university process constructions. This file deals coverage insights and stimulates new learn to enrich and additional advance the new OECD educating and studying overseas Survey (TALIS) and the impending PISA 2012 review, for you to back specialise in arithmetic. moreover, this document will be of curiosity to academics, educators and officers inside nationwide and native academic specialists accountable for the pro improvement of lecturers or for programme improvement, in addition to individuals of college forums and dad or mum advisory our bodies.