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Author : R. Quentin Grafton,Stephen Knowles,P. Dorian Owen,Université d'Ottawa. Département de science économique
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889272530
Author : Jose Antonio Ocampo,Jomo Kwame Sundaram,Rob Vos
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015082720197
Unlike the 1950s and 1960s, when the rising tide of economic growth lifted most economies, the last three decades have been characterized by a paradox of greater international economic integration as well as divergent economic growth performances. The growing North-South gap of the last two centuries has been moderated recently by the better economic performance of China, India and others in East Asia, implying the expansion of the 'middle income' category. This volume of analytical studies seeks to explain these major differences in economic performance in recent decades by considering the dynamics of international economic growth, diverging growth rates, economic structures, and sources of demand, successes and collapses in the developing world, and recent episodes of real income stagnation of countries. Several chapters critically review recent misleading claims and the conventional wisdom regarding the relationship of trade liberalization, financial development, development, aid, infrastructure spending, violent conflict, good governance, and industrial policy to economic growth.
Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy,Centre for the Study of Living Standards
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0886451981
Topics covered include productivity concepts and trends, government fiscal balances and environmental sustainability, social determination of productivity, demographics, human capital and social diversity, social policy, inequality and productivity.
Author : Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,R. Bin Wong
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674266841
China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China? Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China’s early and more recent prosperity and for Europe’s difficulties after the fall of the Roman Empire and during early industrialization. Rosenthal and Wong show that relative prices matter to how economies evolve; institutions can have a large effect on relative prices; and the spatial scale of polities can affect the choices of institutions in the long run. Their historical perspective on institutional change has surprising implications for understanding modern transformations in China and Europe and for future expectations. It also yields insights in comparative economic history, essential to any larger social science account of modern world history.
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199596652
Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
Author : Harmony Udo Utchay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Economic and social development
ISBN : UOM:39015063154341
Author : Richard H. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139440936
This book explains how changing technology and economizing behaviour induce vast changes in productivity, resource allocation, labour utilization, and patterns of living. Economic growth is seen as a process by which businesses, regimes, countries, and the whole world pass through distinct epochs, each one emerging from its predecessor, each one creating the conditions for its successor. Viewed from a long-run perspective, growth must be characterized as an explosive process, marked by turbulent transitions in social and political life as societies adapt to new opportunities, the demise of old ways of living, and to the vast increase and redistribution of human populations. The book is based on a synthesis of classical economics and contemporary concepts of adaptation and economic evolution. Although it is based on analytical methods, the text has been stripped of all equations and with few exceptions is devoid of technical jargon.
Author : William Garner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783668226104
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 2:1, De Montfort University Leicester, course: International Business and Globalisation, language: English, abstract: To understand the divergent views relating to Keynesians and Neoliberals, it is first important to define the two economic groups. (Princeton) regards Keynesianism as “the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes who advocated government monetary and fiscal programs intended to stimulate business activity and increase employment” defines Neoliberalism as a “Late-twentieth century variant of theory that competition among businesses in market with limited state regulation best fosters growth; specifically, advocacy of free enterprise in competitive global markets and movement of goods and capital unburdened by tariffs and regulations...” (Bourdieu; cf. Treanor). To understand the divergent views on finance, economics, politics and social policies of Keynesians and Neoliberals, these four policies therefore need to be broken down, explained and analysed.
Author : Ms. Era Dabla-Norris,Ms. Kalpana Kochhar,Mrs. Nujin Suphaphiphat,Mr. Frantisek Ricka,Evridiki Tsounta
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513547435
This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers being the skill premium associated with technical change and globalization, weakening protection for labor, and lack of financial inclusion in developing countries. We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth—that is, when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down. This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class. To tackle inequality, financial inclusion is imperative in emerging and developing countries while in advanced economies, policies should focus on raising human capital and skills and making tax systems more progressive.
Author : Jens Hölscher,Horst Tomann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137371386
The period of transition from socialism to capitalism in parts of Europe and Asia over the past 25 years has attracted considerable interest in academia and beyond. From the Editors of Palgrave's iconic series 'Studies in Economic Transition' comes the Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics. This dictionary addresses the needs of students, lecturers and the interested general public to quickly find definitions and explanations of topics, institutions, personalities and processes in this historical phase of changing societies, which as such is not concluded. Today newly emerging market economies try to learn from the experiences of transition economies. Those who love The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics will enjoy the format of this Dictionary, which uses an encyclopaedia-based approach, where articles not only define the terms but provide an overview of the evolution of the term or theory and also touch on the current debates.
Author : Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789210043670
This report examines the links between inequality and other major global trends (or megatrends), with a focus on technological change, climate change, urbanization and international migration. The analysis pays particular attention to poverty and labour market trends, as they mediate the distributional impacts of the major trends selected. It also provides policy recommendations to manage these megatrends in an equitable manner and considers the policy implications, so as to reduce inequalities and support their implementation.
Author : National Bureau of Economic Research
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400879762
The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Timothy Noah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608196340
For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a rhetorical club to be wielded in ideological battles. But this Great Divergence may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes-a drastic, elemental change in the character of American society, and not at all for the better. The inequality gap is much more than a left-right hot potato-its causes and consequences call for a patient, non-partisan exploration. Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, based on his award-winning series of articles for Slate, surveys the roots of the wealth gap, drawing on the best thinking of contemporary economists and political scientists. Noah also explores potential solutions to the problem, and explores why the growing rich-poor divide has sparked remarkably little public anger, in contrast to social unrest that prevailed before the New Deal. The Great Divergence is poised to be one of the most talked-about books of 2012, a jump-start to the national conversation about the shape of American society in the 21st century, and a work that will help frame the debate in a Presidential election year.
Author : Maddison Angus
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264163553
The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have not hitherto been available for China.
Author : Franziska Ohnsorge,Shu Yu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464817540
A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.