Development Economics

Competition and the World Economy

Francisco C. Sercovich, Choong-Yong Ahn, Claudio Frischtak, Mojmir Mrak, Herman Mügge, Wilson Peres, Samuel M. Wangwe

Globalisation has had a major impact on manufacturing competitiveness and industrial development in transitional and developing economies. This up-to-date book critically examines the experience of a wide range of countries, focusing on...

Hardback (2000)

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Reconciling Trade and the Environment

Veena Jha, Anil Markandya, René Vossenaar

The link between trade and the environment has focused on two broad issues: how changing trade regimes have affected the environment and how stricter environmental regulations have affected trade. The answers are of particular importance...

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Environmental Economics and Development

Edited by J. B. Opschoor, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp

This outstanding new collection surveys the relationship between the environment and development, and highlights some of the tensions that are implicit in the notion of sustainable development.

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Pathways to Economic Development

Richard Grabowski

This innovative book integrates ideas from sociology, economics and political science to analyse economic development. In doing so, it sheds new light on the process of successful development in East and Southeast Asia and, at the same ...

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Development Policies in Natural Resource Economies

Edited by Jörg Mayer, Brian Chambers, Ayisha Farooq

This important book examines the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It addresses the key issue of how to make the primary sector sufficiently produc...

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The Political Economy of Taiwan’s Development into the 21st Century

Edited by Gustav Ranis, Sheng-Cheng Hu, Yun-Peng Chu

Over the past four decades, Taiwan has achieved remarkable economic growth. In this important book, a distinguished group of contributors employs a comparative perspective to explore the reasons behind and the lessons to be learned from...

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The Political Economy of Comparative Development into the 21st Century

Edited by Gustav Ranis, Sheng-Cheng Hu, Yun-Peng Chu

This important book uses the most recent advancements in growth theory and case studies to examine the status of economic and political development at the turn of the 20th century.

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The Economics of Famine

Edited by Jean Drèze

The Economics of Famine presents an important collection of outstanding contributions to the economic analysis of famine. The first part consists of theoretical papers, including Amartya Sen’s classic exposition of the entitlement appro...

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Sustaining Development

Daniel W. Bromley

Sustaining Development brings together, in one accessible volume, a selection of Daniel W. Bromley’s path-breaking theoretical and empirical papers on economic development and environmental problems in the developing world.

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Labour Standards and International Competitiveness

André Raynauld, Jean-Pierre Vidal

This innovative book assesses the impact of labour standards on the competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and industrialized countries.

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