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Ahmed, Shahid - 2016

Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and …

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Institutions, Human Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

Tridico, Pasquale - 2011

This book analyses the development path of transition economies in European Countries and former Soviet Republics that have experienced the transformation from planned economies to market economies since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It examines economic growth, institutional change and...

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Social Welfare Functions and Development : Measurement and Policy Applications

Kakwani, Nanak - 2016

Nanak Kakwani and Hyu Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific social objectives, such as poverty- and inequality-reduction. Arguing that the measurement of development cannot be value-free, the authors assert that if indicators of...

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Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood : Issues and Challenges of Transformation

Xaxa, Virginius (ed.); Saha, Debdulal (ed.); … - 2017

The book explores the debates surrounding sustainable livelihood in the neoliberal era effected through transformation of the nature of work and the role of institutions, particularly in the Global South. By creating gainful work and employment opportunities through formal and informal...

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China’s 40 Years of Economic Reform and Development : How the Miracle Was Created

Xinli, Zheng - 2018

This book aims to explain the secret to China’s rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand witness. Zheng Xinli was enrolled as a graduate student of economics 40 years ago, at a time when very few Chinese people could enroll in higher-level education, let alone...

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Social Security, the Economy and Development

Midgley, James (ed.); Tang, Kwong-Leung (ed.) - 2008

This book explores the complex relationship between social security and economic development, arguing that social security contributes positively to economic development by promoting social investments that not only foster economic growth but enhance social welfare for all. The contributors...

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The Primacy of Regime Survival : State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe

Simpson, Mark; Hawkins, Tony - 2018

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America : Decades of Change

Ystanes, Margit (ed.); Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (ed.) - Workshop on Inequality in Latin America <2015, Bergen, … - 2018

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...

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Emerging States at Crossroads

Tsunekawa, Keiichi (ed.); Todō, Yasuyuki (ed.) - 2019

-- 2 Responses to the Middle-income Trap in China, Malaysia, and Thailand(Akira Suehiro) -- 3 The Middle-income Trap in the … Taiwan and Thailand (Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Meng-chun Liu) -- 7 Changing Resource-based Manufacturing Industry: The … Case of the Rubber Industry in Malaysia and Thailand(Motoko Kawano) -- 8 Marketing Risks and Standards Compliance …

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Globalisation and the challenges of development in contemporary India

Venkateswar, Sita (ed.); Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (ed.) - 2016 - 1. edition

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