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A volume on labour productivity in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. It provides rationales for recent productivity trends in France, the UK, Germany, and Spain, and analyses policy responses to the crisis and how these have af...

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Poland is one of the biggest yet rarely heard of economic success stories. Over the last twenty-five years it has unexpectedly become Europe's growth champion. This book is about lessons learned from Poland's remarkable experience, the conditions ...

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Using Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand as examples, this book focuses on industrialization in South East Asia. These nations have all undergone a major transformation from being poor, agrarian countries to middle-income countries with a developed...

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This Oxford Handbook provides a critical assessment of the history, patterns, and strategies of economic transformation. It deals with major themes including policy issues, illuminating country experiences, and important debates on the respective ...

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Examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them.

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Provides in-depth evaluation of the development of rural life in Viet Nam over the past decade, combining a unique primary source of time-series panel data with the best micro-econometric analytical tools available.

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This volume examines the evolution of poverty in the course of economic development and how to improve governance and institutions to realize inclusive development in sub-Saharan Africa.

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This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s.

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When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few been able to sustain growth over decades? This book provides a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations an...

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To understand economics, it is crucial to define wealth, and understand how it is created, destroyed, stored and managed. This edited volume assembles high-quality contributions defining key concepts and addressing economic and policy issues aroun...

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This book addresses the central challenge facing rich countries: how to promote growth and prosperity that is widely shared rather than concentrated at the top. It identifies structures and policies that are associated with limiting the rise in in...

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The challenge of how to ensure that working families see their living standards improve rather than stagnate over time is central in rich countries. This book investigates the economic "squeeze" on middle-income families, and the forces that under...

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This book brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. The central questions in his work are how economic growth affects standards of living, how...

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Reforms in labour and product markets play a central role in government policies. This book identifies the conditions under which structural reforms are beneficial, and throws new light on the determinants and effects of structural reforms, and on...

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This handbook presents a comprehensive and multi-faceted analysis of the BRICS countries and other emerging economies, exploring their economic, social, environmental, and governance dimensions and challenges.

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This book compares models of low-rent and high-rent development to explain the divergent growth of regions and to query the continued prioritization of industrialization over agriculture and export services as the engine of economic prosperity.

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This book offers a systematic and comparative study on urbanization and urban development in China and India. Contributed by a team of top experts from both countries it uses original research to understand why and where to urbanize.

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Immiserizing growth occurs when economic growth fails to benefit, or even harms, the poor. This first book-length examination of this phemonenon combines discussion of the mechanisms of immiserizing growth with empirical data on trends in growth, ...

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Growth in the US and UK is declining due to poor productivity. This book sets out a revised model which demonstrates that weakness in productivity is the result of the bonus culture, and suggests ways to change this flawed system so that investmen...

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The book presents a novel theory on current markets. It helps us understand how the information ecology is important to how the markets work, and how our economy functions and evolves. Numerous scenarios and examples allow readers to reflect on th...

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Why is catch-up rare and why have some nations succeeded while others failed? This volumes examines how nations learn by reviewing key structural and contingent factors that contribute to dynamic learning and catch-up.

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This translation of Kazimierz aski's final work brings up to date fundamental concepts to give a picture of the twenty-first capitalist economy. Through lectures on the work of Micha Kalecki it provides a systematic account of the principle of agg...

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This book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of VATs in Africa. It enables policymakers and students to examine Africa's VAT systems and to ascertain how it can be modernized to finance human and economic development.

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Including in-depth contributions by eminent economists and social scientists, Asian Transformations examines the phenomenal changes transforming economies in this continent and shifting the balance of economic power in the world, while reflecting ...

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Using Ghana as a case study, Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation integrates economic and political analysis to explore the challenges and opportunities of Africa's growth and transformation.

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A comprehensive edited volume that outlines the historical roots and state-of-the-art debates on the role of structural change in the process of economic development, including both orthodox and heterodox perspectives and contributions from promin...

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This volumes uses quantitative, qualitative, and institutional analyses to examine capital flight from African countries. The collected chapters reveal the networks of actors that facilitate capital flight and the offshore accumulation of private ...

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Trapped in the Middle? investigates whether middle-income traps really exist and, in case they do, how these pitfalls are manifested, their causes, what economic policy measures are required to escape from them, and what international cooperation ...

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Economic Inequality and Poverty examines how methods for measuring inequality and poverty have evolved. Kakwani and Son draw on household surveys to demonstate a framework based on economic variables that can be applied to draw up evidence-based p...

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Focussing on the Global South, this book examines the emergent processes of stalled industrialization and the spectre of premature deindustrialization in middle-income developing countries. Through detailed analysis, Sumner challenges existing eco...

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