ECON 225: Economic Development (BMC)

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa is a definitive and comprehensive account of the key issues and topics affecting Africa's ability to grow and develop. It includes 53 thematic and 48 country perspectives by more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa.

The Pacific Rim is a dynamic as well as diverse economic region, containing the world's three largest economies (US, China and Japan, measured by GDP at PPP). This Handbook will begin with institutional and historical perspectives, go on to consider various dimensions of economic policies, then examine the growth process and specific challenges to growth, and finally consider the key theme of regional economic integration in its many dimensions, including trade, investment, monetary coordination, crisis management and value networks.

While Russia's impressive economic growth has raised the average standard of living and put a number of wealthy Russians on the Forbes billionaires list, it has failed to solve the country's deep economic and social problems inherited from the Soviet times. Russia continues to suffer from a distorted economic structure, with its low labor productivity, heavy reliance on natural resource extraction, low life expectancy, high income inequality, and weak institutions. The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy offers a broad range of topics written by the best Western and Russian scholars of the Russian economy.

Poverty is still widespread in Latin America, in spite of over five decades of international development efforts to eradicate it. While some progress was made during the first decade of the new Millennium, at least until the onset of the global food and economic crises, there are still over one hundred and eighty million people in the region who unable to meet their basic needs. This is the ‘poverty problematic’ that is at the center of this book.

This book explores the expansive economic experiences of India and China and charts the highlights of the new economic era of two ascending economic superpowers. It discusses the resonance of East and South-East Asian economics and the new dimension it has provided to the international arena.

Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood. This book explores the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes - trade, finance, aid,migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to economic development...

This book provides a genuinely international introduction to regional and local economic development policies and practice, their contexts and the theoretical issues and debates that underpin them.

Development economists look into the future. They do not just ask how things work today, but how a new policy, program, or project would make them work tomorrow. They view the world and history as a learning process ”past and present are inputs into thinking about what is coming. 40 development economists, most of them from the World Bank "s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network ”an epicenter of the profession ” report what they see on the horizon of their technical disciplines and of their geographic areas of specialization.

This book offers a rigorous overview of twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide a short survey of the analysis and sketch out policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios.