This collection of papers arises from two major international conferences on inward investment and regional development, and the role of accumulated capital in regional business development.
This book compares the social processes that explain Japanese development, beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, with similar processes in post-independent Nigeria in its effort to achieve capitalist development.
Combining enterprise surveys in Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Malaysia and Singapore with national and international data including those from China and major machinery exporting countries, this book establishes the international pattern of diffusion of microelectronic industrial technologies.
A study of ethico-economic theorizing on socio-economic development, this book examines critically the views currently held by theoreticians' comprehensive concept of the world view in development theory, then reconsiders various global issues, both in theoretical and applied perspectives.
In the aftermath of the debt crisis, disappointment with the results of structural adjustment policies is leading to a reappraisal of theories of economic development and industrialization strategies.
Identifies the main considerations in the policy formation process, isolates cross-national commonalities and differences, and discusses the potential for cross-national local economic development policy transfer.
The book examines the operation of International Monetary Fund and World Bank conditionality in six developing countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and Tanzania) and examines its effects on their economies.
A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner.
One in a series on global political economy, aiming to provide overviews and case studies of states and sectors in the international division of labour.
This book explores why, a decade after Zimbabwean independence, government agricultural development policies still retains surprising similarities with those of the colonial period despite lengthy peasant opposition.
The books in this series aim to reflect the enormous economic and political changes that small and medium-sized nations in East and South-East Asia have been undergoing in the 1970s and 1980s and to show the impact of these changes on the world economy.
Focusing on trade in manufactures, industrial restructuring and economic development and enforced by a rich source of data, this book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution and characteristics of Hong Kong's postwar economy.
A collection of interdisciplinary essays which attempt to analyze cultural, economic, political and social diversities and resources from alternative regional and international viewpoints.
Despite the policy change the Asian Development Bank's rural sector projects have continued to focus on increasing production, with little impact on unemployment or poverty.