This paper develops a hydroeconomic optimization modeling framework to assess the economic consequences and potential trade-offs of various infrastructure development and policy pathways in the Nam Ngum Basin (Lao PDR). We considered whether large shifts in water resource demands in a relatively...

"This book provides a comprehensive reassessment of the development of the economy of Pakistan since independence to the present. It employs a rigorous statistical methodology, which has applicability to other developing economies, to define and measure episodes of growth and stagnation, and to...

"This wide-ranging text introduces the causes of economic growth and stagnation across countries. It combines consideration of proximate causes as well as systemic factors, and provides the historical context and theoretical background to aid understanding of international disparities"--