Balancing macroeconomic growth with regional equilibrium development is essential for China's pursuit of the modernization through regional coordinated development. Taking a macroeconomic output perspective and employing a counterfactual framework, this paper evaluates the economic growth...

This Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework (MTNDPF) 2022-2025 seeks to operationalize Article 36, Clause 1 of Ghana’s 1992 constitution, which enjoins Government to ensure that the national economy is managed efficiently to maximize the welfare of the citizenry. It was prepared...

Aid for Trade seeks to enable developing economies, and in particular least-developed countries (LDCs), to use trade as a means of fostering economic growth, sustainable development and poverty reduction. It promotes the integration of developing economies, especially LDCs, into the multilateral...

The present research aims to analyze two archetypal 20th century development strategy cases: Brazil's and South Korea's. During the last century, both countries had been experiencing catching up processes, but by the 1980's Brazil started to lag behind while South Korea began to technologically...

Palm Inc was the world''s largest supplier of personal digital assistants (PDA''s). The company was troubled by the declining annual shipments of its products, which many analysts felt were primarily due to their slow technological obsolescence and increasing popularity of converged mobile...

This paper on Republic of Congo focuses on poverty reduction and growth strategy. The diagnostic analysis of the socio-economic situation shows that the Congo still faces many challenges. It is recommended to strengthen the quality, capacities, and efficiency of the system, and manage human...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a new and coherent way of thinking about diverse facets of development. Implicit in the framework of the SDGs is that the goals are interconnected and interdependent. To translate such critical ideas into reality, countries need new skills,...

India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than labor-intensive...

This paper proposes that Tourism Activities can be considered as a technological hub. We will discuss the implementation of the Value Chains Framework in the analysis of the products, services and infrastructure re- lated to tourism activities. The main idea consists of presenting an in-...

Atmanirbhar Bharat aims to be self reliant which pushes independency in one and all so that the economy which has fallen during covid 19 pandemic can be boosted up again by the support of all citizens.The pivotal concern of Atmanirbhar Bharat has been the revival of lockdown haunted economy....

The climate crisis is inevitably looming over the horizon. Some countries are much more vulnerable than others to its harshest consequences due to their existing issues of poverty and underdevelopment. At the same time, developmental policies pursue economic growth at the cost of environmental...

In this paper, we investigate the root cause for large MSMEs finance gap. We advance five propositions for the mechanism through which the distorted financial structure generated by a comparative-advantage-defying strategy leads to large MSMEs finance gap. We then use panel data from 115...

This report analyses the evolution of Aid for Trade flows in a context marked by crises of unprecedented magnitude, with significant impacts on trade and investment. Under the theme “Empowering Connected, Sustainable Trade”, it shows that Aid for Trade was an important tool in the fight...

Hydrogen has recently emerged as the next clean energy source minimizing environmental problems such as climate change and air pollution by supplementing or replacing depleted fossil fuels. Hydrogen as an energy source does not emit harmful by-products in the process of its use, so it is highly...

The Donald Trump administration is expected to continue increasing the U.S. defense budget during its term in order to implement one of the president’s campaign pledges: modernizing the U.S. military. Congress has passed a 717 billion USD defense budget with the National Defense Authorization...

"This comprehensive book explores various facets crucial to understanding and addressing sustainability challenges. The methodological approach employed in this research involves an intricate examination of the least developed countries' landscape, concentrating on the dichotomy between...

"For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism - the exploiting and exporting of natural resources - is big business. For those exporting countries, natural resource rents create hope and promise for development which can be a seductive force. This book explores the depth of...

While there have always been high levels of philanthropic giving in the Global South, the urgency and unexpectedness of COVID-19 transformed the parameters within which philanthropy operates. 'Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South' examines how newer models of philanthropy are tackling...

Indonesia as a country with a Muslim population reaching 87.18% has the potential to develop Muslim-friendly tourism. In this study, observations were made in two provinces, namely Banten Province and East Java Province with the majority of the Muslim population. This study aims to obtain an...

This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...

This article conducts a series of comparison of development scenarios and development strategies among Korea, Vietnam and the mainland China. The research finds that although the take-off periods differ for the three countries there are some similarities in the strategies and successes they...

AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE SECTOR OF INCLUSIVE GROWTH IN INDIADr.P.CHENNAKRISHNAN, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Thiruvalluvar University, Serkkadu Vellore -632 Tamil Nadu. 115.drchenna79@gmailcom, 8940600667.AbstractAgriculture remains the dominant supporter of Indian populace....

This study analyses how strengths and weaknesses of economic, societal, political and environmental structures played out during the Covid-19 crisis in Africa since March 2020. Its main aim is to improve evidence on the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic on African countries and, based...