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This resource book documents and analyzes current trends in the economic development of the South Asian countries of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, and evaluates the progress they have made in achieving sustained economic growth and improvement in the quality of life for present and future generations.

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The achievement of better relations among developed and developing countries remains an urgent task as the world community seeks to formulate a new and more equitable economic order.

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This volume examines the experiences of a number of Third World countries in implementing development plans in the 1970s and offers some guidelines for research, development, and analysis of policy.

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The current macro-environment of development has been accompanied by a plethora of new concerns and methods, such as how to consider gender in development projects and how to develop participatory-centered projects.

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The current macro-environment of development has been accompanied by a plethora of new concerns and methods, such as how to consider gender in development projects and how to develop participatory-centered projects.

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Development Without Aid provides a critique of foreign aid as a resource that is unable to provide the dynamism to propel the poorest countries out of poverty. It examines the rapid growth of the worlds diasporas as an alternative dynamic with potential to supersede foreign aid and drive a reassertion of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development.

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This volume fills a gap in the literature by analyzing basic issues in development economics as they affect a particular type of Third World nation - small island economies.

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An examination of Africas urban residents experimentations with living amidst crisis, to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence and social marginalisation in distressed cities elsewhere in the world.

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An examination of Africas urban residents experimentations with living amidst crisis, to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence and social marginalisation in distressed cities elsewhere in the world.

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The book should prove useful to those considering business in developing countries and to scholars studying economic development and international business and finance.

Written without an extensive use of sophisticated models and jargon, the book is accessible to both academic and nonacademic readers.

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As it emerges as a mass consumer market and an extended, low-cost manufacturing centre, India has problems that pose difficulties for offshore investors. This work examines Indian business thinking and its relationship to Indian life - for those who want to be part of India's future.

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Placing the controversial globalization process in historical context, DeWitt brings this increasingly important topic to life through the experiences of the two most populous states of the Western HemisphereBrazil and the United States.

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The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty.

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This study considers the forces behind the East Asian growth miracle, the process of growth, the effect of saving, and the effect of foreign direct investment and multinationals. The authors conclude that rapid growth may resume in East Asia once the crisis of 1997 has been resolved.

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According to the Marxist interpretation still dominant in Japanese studies, the last century and a half of the Tokugawa period was a time of economic and demographic stagnation. Professors Hanley and Yamamura argue that a more satisfactory explanation can be provided within the framework of modem economic theory, and they advance and test three imp

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Why do some governments respond promptly to signs of economic trouble, while others muddle indecisively for years In this volume, a number of eminent contributors analyze the politics of adjustment in 13 countries and 19 governments, drawing comparisons across the full set of cases and within clusters selected to clarify specific issues.

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The fourth volume in the Handbook of Comparative Economic Policies, this book provides an overview of the development problems and experiences of developing countries.

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The book seeks to determine why CARICOM nations, despite their incorporation into the international economy for almost four hundred years, have experienced little meaningful economic transformation.

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The book seeks to determine why CARICOM nations, despite their incorporation into the international economy for almost four hundred years, have experienced little meaningful economic transformation.

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This unique book provides comparative economic studies of Taiwan and Korea, and compares them mostly with Japan and the United States. Addtionally, this studyfinds that, in terms of the real GDP per capita in PPP, these East Asian countries are still emerging in the world economy.