Search results for “[Subject: development-economic-development]”

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic Development‘Development’ first emerged as a subject area in the second half of the twentieth century. After World War II, scho...

• Author(s): Linda Weiss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis book addresses the role of political institutions in economic performance, examining the changing state-economy r...

• Author(s): Mark Koyama • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryMost humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did t...

• Author(s): Serge Latouche • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentMost of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much – too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, t...

• Author(s): Mark Koyama • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economic HistoryMost humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries...

• Author(s): Benjamin Selwyn • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedente...

• Author(s): Michael Woolcock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentWhether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international developmen...

• Author(s): Michael Woolcock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentWhether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international developmen...

• Author(s): Daniel Cohen • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralEconomic growth is the religion of the modern world. It promises a solution to the most basic drama of our human existence: wanting what we don'...

• Author(s): Paul Hopper • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentUnderstanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of internati...

• Author(s): Andrew Schrank • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introdu...

• Author(s): Adrian Leftwich • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe spectre of poverty, disease and ignorance still haunts much of the developing world today. But not everywhere....

• Author(s): Andrew Schrank • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introdu...

• Author(s): Hongying Wang • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political EconomyChina’s economic rise over the last four decades has been as confounding as it has been impressive. Few economies have grown as fast ...

• Author(s): Carolina Alves • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryDecolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical enga...

• Author(s): Celso Furtado • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis classic work remains one of the most incisive contributions to dependency theory in the Latin American context....

• Author(s): Celso Furtado • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis classic work remains one of the most incisive contributions to dependency theory in the Latin American context....

• Author(s): Joe Guinan • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyOur broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth...

• Author(s): Stuart Corbridge • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: GeneralTwenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor peo...

• Author(s): Serge Latouche • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentMost of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, t...

• Author(s): Philip S. Golub • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: World - AsianEast Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s ...

• Author(s): Jamie Woodcock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyAll of a sudden, everybody's talking about the gig economy. From taxi drivers to pizza deliverers to the unemployed, w...

• Author(s): Immanuel Ness • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: DemographyFor several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from...

• Author(s): David L. Brown • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: DemographyRural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urba...

• Author(s): Peter Nolan • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is a...