Insurance against poverty

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack ...

Regulation and development

In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less developed countries (LDCs) and offers a ...

Environmental management and development

The continual degradation of the planet's environment is something that affects every person in every country, be it developed or developing. Statements and policies are made at international levels, but their effectiveness is questionable. Also, are techniques of environmental management (EM) used in the ...

The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid

INDEX: Preface . I. 1. The Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid . 2. Products and Services for the BOP. 3. BOP: A Global Opportunity? 4. The Private Sector Eco System. 5. Transaction Governance Capacity andThe Evolution of Bottom of the Pyramid Markets. 6. Development as ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

Doing business in 2005

eliminando obstáculos al crecimiento

Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared ...

Economic development finance

Economic Development Finance is a comprehensive and in-depth presentation of private, public, and community financial institutions, policies and methods for financing local and regional economic development projects. The treatment of policies and program models emphasizes their applications and impact, key design and management issues, and ...

The plain language guide to the world summit on sustainable development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates with the goal of mapping out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting 54-page technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), outlining government priorities and ...

The social economics of poverty

on identities, communities, groups, and networks

This book presents a unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in developing countries and calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, showing how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread disparity in ...

Limits to growth

the 30 year update

1972, The Limits to Growth shocked the world and forever changed the global agenda by demonstrating that unchecked growth on our finite planet was leading planet earth towards ecological 'overshoot' and pending disaster. Employing computer modelling and hard data the book went on to sell ...

Las nuevas fuerzas del desarrollo

¿Es posible el desarrollo económico sostenible en un contexto de creciente competencia y globalización de la economía y la sociedad? ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos que lo hacen posible? ¿Qué acciones y relaciones favorecen un proceso continuo y duradero de desarrollo? El autor da respuesta a ...

Methods in development research

combinig qualitative and quantitative approaches

Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness that the value of research can be enhanced ...

Federalism and the market

intergovernmental conflict and economic reform in the developing world

This research develops a new comparative model of intergovernmental bargaining to account for variation in the capacity of federations in the developing world to undertake economic policy reform, suggesting that many market reform policies are a function of a constant process of bargaining between national ...

Culture, institutions and economic development

a study of eight European regions

Regions are increasingly recognised as a key aspect of economic change in Europe, not merely as geographic spaces but also as social systems. Their history, culture, institutions and patterns of leadership mould the way in which they adapt to European and global competitive challenges. This ...

Crecimiento autonómico 2004: centrado y convergente

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº 185, año 2005)

Consumption structure and macroeconomics

structural change and the relationship between inequality and growth

This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which enables to analyze macroeconomic models ...

Volatility and growth

It has long been recognized that productivity growth and the business cycle are closely interrelated. Yet, until recently, the two phenomena have been investigated separately in the economics literature. This book provides the first consistent attempt to analyze the effects of macroeconomic volatility on productivity ...

La historia cuenta

del crecimiento económico del desarrollo humano sostenible

El esfuerzo por cambiar el mundo nunca es en balde.El desarrollo humano es una conquista social,no una secreción cutánea generada por el aumento de la circulación mercantil y la actividad del Estado a la que llamamos crecimiento económico.La crisis ecológica impone,además ...

Reimagining growth

towards a renewal of development theory

For the past two decades,development theory has been trumped by development economics,while within economics itself the simplistic notions of neoclassical theory have prevailed with their assumption thet markets,freed up from all institutional restraints(including the state), will automatically deliver much higher rates ...