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Engaging urban research in policy making: Towards equitable economic growth. …
Cities are considered “engines of economic growth,” yet many cities in the global South struggle to increase productivity and provide significant economic opportunities for their growing populations. There is a need to deepen the knowledge on the links between public goods and services and equitable economic growth and how to support such processes, in policy and strategic terms, locally an…
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- 9783798332270, 9783798332270
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- 130
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- 338.9 ENG e
Industry-Led Growth Issues and Facts
The book explores, for India and other developing countries, the potential role the organized manufacturing sector could play as an engine of growth. Alongside growth, can this sector generate adequate employment opportunities to facilitate the transfer of labour from the agriculture sector? The book identifies the major constraints that result in limited demand for labour in the organised manu…
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- 978-981-10-0007-2
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- XIV, 88
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- 330 MIT i
Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective
Neoclassical growth theory is the dominant perspective for explaining economic growth. At its core are four implicit assumptions: 1) economic output can become decoupled from energy consumption; 2) economic distribution is unrelated to growth; 3) large institutions are not important for growth; and 4) labor force structure is not important for growth. Drawing on a wide range of data from the ec…
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- 978-3-319-12826-9
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Trends in Mathematical Economics Dialogues Between Southern Europe and Latin…
This book gathers carefully selected works in Mathematical Economics, on myriad topics including General Equilibrium, Game Theory, Economic Growth, Welfare, Social Choice Theory, Finance. It sheds light on the ongoing discussions that have brought together leading researchers from Latin America and Southern Europe at recent conferences in venues like Porto, Portugal; Athens, Greece; and Guanaju…
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- 978-3-319-32543-9
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The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems
This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing ‘neo-Schumpeterian’ research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution. Much of modern evolutionary economics has relied upon biological analogy, especially about natural selection. Although this is valid and useful, evolutionary economists h…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13299-0
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- VII, 641, 39 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
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- Economic Complexity and Evolution
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Transition of the Yangtze River Delta From Global Manufacturing Center to Gl…
This is the first English book that presents a professional analysis of the recent dynamic movement of the Chinese economy by focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the main engine of the Chinese economy. The impact of the international financial crisis on China’s economic development requires a change from the first wave of economic globalization oriented toward exports to the …
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- 978-4-431-55178-2
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The Development of BRIC and the Large Country Advantage
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- 1
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- 978-981-10-0633-3
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- XV, 196, 13 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration Empirical Studies of Chin…
This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while the core issue of urban-rural and regional development is cross-regional resource reallocation driven b…
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- 978-3-662-47412-9
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The Towers of New Capital Mega Townships in India
With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm in India from various built environment lenses. The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization.
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- 978-1-137-58626-1
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Annual Report on China’s Economic Growth: Macroeconomic Trends and Outlook
This book probes into China's economic growth in 2013 and predicts China's development prospects. China’s GDP growth in 2014 continues to slow down, and is expected to be 7.6%, with the CPI stable at a level of 2.5%. With the pressures of structural slowdown, 2014 will be a year of adjustment, and there will be a slowdown in new initiatives to minimize risk. Against a background of policies t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-49050-1
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- VII, 198
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- Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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- 339 ANN a
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