Economics

This pilot study - the first to analyze the World Bank's lending policy in the Second United Nations Development Decade - concentrates on the Bank's shift in emphasis from traditional infrastructure projects to a new stylea projects, especially in the area of rural development, and on the resulting changes in lending criteria in the 1970s.

This book describes how people of limited means within the Spanish American economy managed to get started and survive as entrepreneurs between 1750 and 1850.

For 50 years, the International Finance Section at Princeton University has encouraged and published work in international finance.

The consequences of changing comparative advantage are transforming the economic landscapes of nations and regions around the globe.

This study of the future of U.

Where will the Soviet economy be heading in the 1980s?

In the 1970s Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have changed from being net grain exporters to major grain importers.

This book explains the varied political roles played by agrarian and industrial groups in the modernization of Argentina.

The contributors to this book explore a variety of issues concerned with mainland China's political processes, military structure, and economic development, among them changes in both the ideological superstructure and the organizational base of Chinese politics; the problem of succession; military strategies and civil-military relations; the use o

When the European Monetary System (EMS) was created in 1978, economists on both sides of the Atlantic predicted its early failure.

As the nations of the Pacific Ocean region experience rapid economic growth, they have begun to recognize the vast potential benefits of regional interdependence.

This study traces the political history of the ideas underlying Third World calls for a New International Economic Order.

First published in 1985, Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy examines the origins of the economic downturn of the early 1980s.

First published in 1981, Bath, 1680-1850 reveals the changing structure of society and its social values as shown in the expansion of the city.

First published in 1981, Bath, 1680-1850 reveals the changing structure of society and its social values as shown in the expansion of the city.

Inclusive Growth in Australia overturns two decades of assumptions that social policy is wasteful and a source of dependency.

Export restrictions represent an economic phenomenon that has existed for millenia.

The purpose of this collection of readings is to aid the student taking a course in environmental economics to place the issues in perspective.

This book discusses the nature of institutional development as it promotes market growth.

To what degree has political, social, and economic change been stimulated by the impact of the past and present policies of Communist political systems?

Much has occurred in the Dominican Republic since the first edition of this critically acclaimed profile was published ten years ago: Democratic government has become more firmly established, if no less contentious, and the fragile economy, though still the definitive element in Dominican life, has benefited from changes in global trade patterns and corporate investment.

In this analytical history of the reform process in Hungary, Gabor Revesz traces the country's efforts to transform a planned economy into a system of market socialism.

Over the last 20 years - and especially over the last decade - the international expansion of money and commodities and the international relocation of production have grown tremendously.

The effort to establish economic, political, arid monetary integration in Europe is one of the great dramas of our time, and the implications of its success or failure are enormous for the rest of the world.

This study of executive-branch decision making explores the conflict between the diplomatic and developmental mandates of U.

This book explores the Arab world and its development problems as its new oil wealth opens up prospects of accelerated economic and social progress.

First published in 1986, the research for this book was originally undertaken by the authors at The Futures Group for the Office of Technology Assessment.

This volume is the first of four publications that will present the research on technology and employment carried out by Conservation of Human Resources of Columbia University over the past several years.

An Engaging Account of life in today's turbulent Russia, this book faithfully presents the richly contradictory views of Muscovites and rural Russians on their work, their families and communities, their government, and their daily lives.

Today, most of the countries in Central America and the Caribbean share a common set of problems and structural characteristics that are the result of a similar history of economic development.

This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by considering it as a strategic system.

Initial excitement in the West over the reform of Soviet communism under Gorbachev and then euphoria over the disintegration of the USSR have now been replaced by concern, controversy, and sometimes despair over prospects for democracy and a marlcet economy in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

This book argues that South Africa experienced extensive periods of trade liberalisation in the 1970s and 1980s.

Small- and Medium-Scale Industries in the ASEAN Countries is a comparative study of SMIs in the five member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), analyzing the performance of SMIs to generate income and employment.

This volwne is the outcome of the 19th Kiel Week Conference held at the Institute of World Economics, 22-24 June 1988.

This book examines issues specific to the regions of Latin America and Africa and deals with an issue that Africa has shown the least progress in terms of science and technology and yet it is a region where the needs are urgent in human terms.

The brutal war now raging in what was Yugoslavia, the author argues, is fueled not merely by interethnic hatred but also by longstanding disparities in economic well-being among republics and regions.

This volume examines a number of regional and sectoral developments in Mexico and assesses how they are related to undocumented migration to the United States, representing efforts to identify productive alternatives to the problem of migration.

Much research into the economics of socialist planned economies has emphasized macroeconomic issues central to setting and meeting macroeconomic goals, and research on the theory of the firm in capitalist economies is not generally relevant to socialist economies.

This issue-oriented, multidisciplinary approach to American-East Asian relations asks provocative questions and presents a thoughtful appraisal of the situation today.

Bangladesh, the world's poorest large country, has privatized more state-owned industries than any other developing nation.

This book is fine study of industrial policy in Ecuador.

This text provides an account of the dynamic interplay between the political and economic forces that have shaped government priorities and strategies in Africa's most populous country.

This book presents a Bangladesh case study of the farm-level postharvest system.

As the Cold War draws to a close, new issues inevitably have begun to surface in U.

Addressing the economic aspects of ties between the United States and Mexico, this book looks at the structural characteristics of the border region and the flow of goods, services, capital, and people between the two countries.

In the confrontation between the two main economic systems that has marked the twentieth century, capitalism has been declared the winner-by default- over its adversary, socialism.

Challenging the dependency theory approach to the origin of underdevelopment in Spanish America, this book argues that internal political and economic factors led the nations of the region to become dependent and underdeveloped during the nineteenth century.

This book presents a selection of essays on public finance, which is concerned with taxation, income maintenance, and social security, with emphasis on the analysis of policy alternatives to improve tax and transfer systems.

This book is about proceedings from the Third World to the South-South Conference, held in Beijing in April 1983, on strategies of development, negotiations and cooperation pursued by developing countries in the last thirty years.