|
|
|  | This book provides an innovative framework to analyze the process of industrial upgrading and diversification, a key feature of economic development. Based on this framework, it provides concrete advice to development practitioners and policy makers on how to unleash a countryâ??s growth potential. | |
|  | The World Bank's annual report on the external debt of developing countries includes comprehensive data for 128 countries, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. | |
|  | The Great Recession of 2009-2011 has left us short of instruments, bereft of confidence, and generally unprepared for a low-growth world. In this book, more than a dozen noted scholars discuss the prospects for future regrowth within analyses of key policy problems, major markets, and promising avenues for stimulating long-term economic growth. | |
|  | Making informed decisions is the essential beginning to any successful development project. Before the project even begins, you can use needs assessment approaches to guide your decisions. This book is filled with practical strategies that can help you define the desired results and select the most appropriate activities for achieving them. | |
|  | Through country case studies as well as econometric analysis, this book attempts to identify the factors that have helped developing countries succeed in exporting services. | |
|  | Innovation and technology absorption are now firmly recognized as one of the main sources of economic growth for emerging and advanced economies alike. International R and D collaboration and FDI are critical and require government support programs, specially financial ones. | |
|  | This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management. | |
|  | This book argues that higher education in East Asia is failing to deliver the skills and research outcomes for innovation and productivity. It shows how countries in the region can reform and improve their higher education systems to ensure their contribution to improve economic growth. | |
|
|