From its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality.
This book looks into the relationship between financial development, economic growth, and the possibility of a potential capital flight in the transmission process.
This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908-1959) as a developmental state.
It is now widely recognised that rising inequality of income and wealth on the one hand and a slowdown in the rate of economic growth on the other are two of the most important challenges faced today by the global economy as well as by most of the developing economies.
Ilchman and Uphoff believe that political science has failed in the past to meet its own standards of rigor and cogency and does not meet standards of usefulness and relevance set by others.
The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.
Assessing both the macro- and micro-economic levels of the contemporary African Debt Crisis, this book, first published in 1989, begins by looking at the origins of the world debt crisis, and then looks closely at the problem as it affects Sub-Saharan Africa.
Doing Development Research is a comprehensive introduction to research in development studies, that provides thorough training for anyone carrying out research in developing countries.
This book is written as a tribute to Frederick Nixson's extensive work on industrial development in the Global South, while seeking to actively engage with the latest arguments concerning development economics, together with changes in manufacturing and industrial policy that continue to shape the role of the Global South in the international economy, the impact of the increased concentration of global multinational corporations in that space, along with the rise of new financing tools and debt traps.
This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts?
Is China becoming the "e;workshop of the world"e; in the same way as Britain and the United States once were; or is China - as some multinational companies believe - simply a processing segment in global production networks?
This book focuses on different sustainable products and services, such as electrical vehicles, green buildings, and biophilic and biomimetic systems, at multiple hierarchical levels within its chapters.
Les orientations fondamentales de la stratégie de coopération convenue par l'OCDE et le CAD sortent renforcées des crises financières qui ont frappé les marchés émergents en 1997 et 1998.
Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa.
Use this comprehensive primer to simplify exporting, discover exportable products and services, and determine and select the best target market entry alternative while ensuring that you get paid.
The Creation of Wealth and Poverty is a study of the means and ways by which wealth and poverty are created in both developed and developing countries.
La turbulencia económica y política que se registra a nivel mundial le otorga a la auditoría un papel protagónico, entendida como el conjunto de sistemas y acciones que aporta valor a una organización, en un marco de permanente cambio.
Das kleine Iran-Lexikon erklärt in mehr als 200 Stichwörtern kurz und anschaulich die zentralen Begriffe, die dem deutschen Leser und Geschäftsreisenden den iranischen (Gottes-)Staat (den Staat Iran) und die persische Kultur (die iranische Gesellschaft) vermitteln.
Even after achieving the status of a developed economy, many economies face other challenges which may include economic stagnation and income inequality.
Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change.
This book, written by two leading Swedish economists and first published in 1984, constitutes a threefold contribution to the expanding field of economic discrimination.