Economic development is a process of continuous technological innovation and structural transformation. Development thinking is inherently tied to the quest for sustainable growth strategies. This book provides a neoclassical approach for studying the determinants of economic structure and its transformation and draws new insights for development policy.

2012

Level: avancé

New Structural Economics

Justin Yifu Lin

World Bank Publications

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.

2002

Level: avancé

Kicking Away the Ladder

Ha-Joon Chang

Anthem Press

In this course you will learn the basics for developing economically viable climate resilient plans The course starts with a review of the scientific consensus on changes in climate patterns and projections to the future and explains the rationale for countries to develop climate resilient plans that will help them …

Level: avancé

Economics of Climate-Resilient Development

World Bank Group

Open Learning Campus

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2019

Level: avancé

Pluriverse

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Frederico Demaria, Alberto Acosta

Tulika Books

"Stabilise, liberalise and privatise" has, since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, been the mantra chanted at developing countries by international financial institutions, donor countries and newspaper columnists with quasi-religious conviction.

2007

Level: avancé

The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism

Richard Kozul-Wright, Paul Rayment

Zed Books

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. People and ideas are important; but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.

2016

Level: débutant

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

Elliott and Thompson Limited

This book is designed for a one-semester or two-semester course in international economics, primarily targeting non-economics majors and programs in business, international relations, public policy, and development studies. It has been written to make international economics accessible to wide student and professional audiences.

2011

Level: avancé

An Introduction to International Economics

Kenneth A. Reinert

Cambridge University Press