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  • Science And Technology

    Lessons For Development Policy

    by Robert Evenson, Gustav Ranis ...
    This book presents several general theoretical notions about the process of science and technology as it relates to development. It develops the international dimension of science and technology in terms of the international exchange processes and the appropriateness and modification of technology. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Advancing Human Development

    Theory and Practice

    by Frances Stewart, Gustav Ranis, Emma Samman ...
    Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth. This approach forms the foundation of Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice. It traces the evolution of ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Working but Poor

    Edited by Hiroyuki Hino, Gustav Ranis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    It is widely acknowledged that youth unemployment is one of the most critical challenges facing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume brings together an eminent group of international scholars to analyse the extent and complex nature of this joblessness, and offer a set of evidence-based policy choices that could contribute to solving the problem in the short- and long-run.Part I reviews ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Taiwan Success Story

    Rapid Growith With Improved Distribution In The Republic Of China, 19521979

    by Shirley W Y Kuo, Gustav Ranis ...
    Economists and policymakers have long been perplexed over the way rapid growth appears to conflict with the other common goal of developing nations - more equitable income distribution. But economic expansion need not preclude equity, as demonstrated by the case of Taiwan, which experienced high rates of economic growth between the early 1950s and the late 1970s while simultaneously improving the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Comparative Development Perspectives

    by Gustav Ranis ...
    This book provides comparative perspectives on problems of economic development in the 1980s. It emphasizes improvements in economic institutions and policies associated with the development process and employs the comparative historical approach to evaluate dimensions of the development process. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan

    Edited by Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation.Such issues of the role of government in providing the right amount of infant industry protection, the relevance of the financial system ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Globalization and Self-Determination

    Is the Nation-State Under Siege?

    by David R. Cameron, Gustav Ranis, Annalisa Zinn ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO - that imperil state sovereignty from 'outside' the nation state. The second threat emanates ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Theory and Experience of Economic Development

    Essays in Honour of Sir Arthur Lewis

    Edited by Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, Gustav Ranis, Mark R. Rosenzweig ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis, 1979 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The authors, an international group of distinguished scholars, address a varied set of specific issues reflecting Professor Lewis’ research interests, covering topics which include: technological change in agriculture, analyses of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Globalization and the Nation State

    The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

    by Stephen Kosack, Gustav Ranis, James Vreeland ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programmes.The cutting-edge techniques of the new political economy are thus brought to bear on international issues for the first time. The book includes contributions from leading North American economists - Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen - as ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Hiroyuki Hino, John Lonsdale, Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart ...
    There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

    by William Milberg, Deborah Winkler ...
    Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade

    History, Theory and Empirical Evidence

    by Anwar Shaikh ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. Its proclaimed purpose is to reduce global poverty, its protocols are derived from the orthodox theory of competitive free markets and its policies are enforced by the full weight of the rich countries and global institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Bank and the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD