Unplanned Development

Unplanned Development
Author: Jonathan Rigg
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848139918

Unplanned Development offers a fascinating and fresh view into the realities of development planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as thoroughly planned endeavours informed by structure, direction and intent, Jonathan Rigg exposes the truth of development experience that chance, serendipity, turbulence and the unexpected define development around the world. Based on rich empirical sources from South-East Asia, Unplanned Development sustains a unique general argument in making the case for chance and turbulence in development. Identifying chance as a leading factor in all development planning, the book contributes to a better way of dealing with the unexpected and asks vital questions on the underlying paradoxes of development practice.

Development Centre Seminars Asia and Europe Services Liberalisation

Development Centre Seminars Asia and Europe Services Liberalisation
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2003-06-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264103406

This book demonstrates some of the pitfalls associated with services liberalisation but recommends perseverance and even acceleration of the reforms. Contributors call for orderly and rapid progress towards regional integration of the services ...

Productivity and Economic Performance in the Asia-Pacific Region

Productivity and Economic Performance in the Asia-Pacific Region
Author: Tsu-Tan Fu
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2002-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781782542582

'. . . this voluminous book is well put together and clearly worth a read.' - Renuka Mahadevan, ASEAN Bulletin Following on from their previous book Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, the authors in this volume analyse the economic performance of many of the major economies in the Asia-Pacific region including Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Japan. They examine economic and productivity growth, competitiveness and efficiency developments in the region. An introductory essay by the editors surveys recent economic developments in the region whilst introducing and cohesively integrating the chapters that follow. The studies employ a variety of modern analytical constructs and empirical techniques of open economy growth accounting as well as the measurement of productivity change, technical change and economic efficiency. A number of the chapters examine the entire region while others focus exclusively on a nation or industry. Several chapters study the causes and consequences of the financial crises in the region in 1997 from a recent historical perspective.

Financial Development and Economic Growth in Malaysia

Financial Development and Economic Growth in Malaysia
Author: James B. Ang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2008-11-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113403511X

This book sheds new light on the evolutionary role of financial system and the interacting mechanisms between financial development and economic growth in the context of Malaysia.

The OECD Observer

The OECD Observer
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1999
Genre: Developed countries
ISBN:

Development Centre Seminars Regional Integration in Africa

Development Centre Seminars Regional Integration in Africa
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2002-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9264194428

Regional integration and co-ordination are not a panacea but they could hold the key to African countries' long-awaited participation in the world economy. This was one of the conclusions of the second International Forum on African Perspectives ...

Development Centre Seminars Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality

Development Centre Seminars Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality
Author: OECD Development Centre
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2003-06-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264101853

This book is based on an exceptional event in December 2000 which brought together civil society from poor countries and OECD experts. It emerges that globalisation can have a positive impact in poor countries, but only if policies encouraging more equitable distribution of resources are adopted.

Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries

Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821349960

This edition of the annual publication considers the need to reshape the global architecture of world trade, in order to help strengthen the economies of developing countries and reduce world poverty. The report focuses on four policy areas: the establishment of a development round of WTO negotiations to reduce trade barriers; global co-operation to expand trade outside the WTO; the adoption of pro-trade development policies by high-income countries; and enacting trade reforms in developing countries. The findings of the report suggest that developing countries could significantly increase their incomes, if all countries progressively implement the proposed trade reforms. This would result in a world with a much higher standard of living, an estimated 300 million people lifted out of poverty by 2015, and a significant increase in the number of children living beyond their fifth birthday throughout the developing world.