Product Description: Considering the examples of Australia and the Pacific Rim, Growth and Productivity in East Asia offers a contemporary explanation for national productivity that measures contributions not only from capital and labor, but also from economic activities and relevant changes in policy, education, and technology...read more

Product Description: The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world's finest development thinkers to present their perspectives and ideas. In recent years, a parallel, second conference has been held in Europe with the same goal of expanding the flow of ideas between thinkers, practitioners, and policymakers in the field of international development...read more

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Product Description: The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may not be evenly spread...read more

Essays examine the new knowledge-based economy, discussing regional economic development, policies regarding technology and innovation, and corporate strategies for the changing economy.

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Product Description: This work questions what enduring lessons have been learnt about the interdependence of international trade and economic development since 1950. Since the end of the Cold War and the advent of the WTO, developing countries have been forced to face the choice of whether, and to what extent, to integrate economically with the rest of the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What are the forces behind the increasing globalization of economic life? How does globalization affect the functioning of national economies? What difficulties confront government policymakers in dealing with the global economy? These issues are addressed in this volume by leading specialists...read more

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Product Description: James Busumtwi-Sam and Laurent Dobuzinskis have assembled a leading team of experts in the field to examine how phenomena associated with globalization impact on political economy in theory and in practice. The volume employs a variety of theoretical and analytical approaches to examine the very changeable nature of the global political economy, in terms of academic analysis, policy and practice...read more

This volume collects nine outstanding papers presented at the first World Bank Economists' Forum, held May 3-4, 1999. Initiated by then-Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, the Forum highlighted papers that combined analytical rigor with potential policy impact.The inagural forum covered the landscape on modern development economics. This volume surveys much of that same territory: fiscal policy, capital flows, trade, decentralization, labor markets, infrastructure, health, and worker training are the main themes. The authors represent both the operational and the research sides of the Bank. The papers were selected from among the best Forum entries, which in turn had been selected for presentation at the Forum from 140 submitted abstracts. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This collection of papers from the 1999 ABCDE reflects the fact that economic trends are demanding a more intense flow of ideas and expertise between developed and developing worlds. While there is growing recognition of the need for macroeconomic stability, there is no consensus on how to balance this need with pressing social needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The productivity slowdown of the 1970s and 1980s and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990s have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An examination of globalization and marginality in geographical space. It discusses the issue of marginalization and the effects that economic globalization have on marginal and critical regions from the point of view of politics and policies and the shift from economic to social issues of development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume gathers together key new contributions on the subject of the relationship, both empirical and theoretical, between economic oscillations, growth and structural change. Employing a sophisticated level of mathematical modelling, the collection contains articles from, amongst others, William Baumol, Katsuhito Iwai and William Brock...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When and why does government interference in the market process succeed and when and why does it fail? The limits of government and the consequences for economic growth of government interference in markets are the central themes in this book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Powerful forces of change are converging that could set the stage for a long, sustained economic boom in the next few decades —the transition to a knowledge-based society; the emergence of more deeply integrated, global markets for goods, services, capital and technology; and a fast-growing environmental awareness that could greatly accelerate the shift to new, less resource-intensive production and consumption patterns...read more

Product Description: A survey of trade and growth theories and an analysis of the Australian experience. What are the recent developments in the theory of trade and growth? How have these theories evolved? What are the theoretical links between a country's trading position and its economic growth? How do these theories match Australia's trade and growth performance over the last 50 years? What then are the policies that could be implemented to enhance Australia's economic growth? These are some of the questions sought to be answered in this volume...read more