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Cover Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2012
Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2012
Zoltán J. Ács and László Szerb
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the authors have created an index that offers a measure of the quality of the business formation process in 79 of the most important countries in the world.
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Reference & Dictionaries
Publication Date:
29 Dec 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781001158
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Business 2011
Cover Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2011
Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2011
Zoltán J. Ács and László Szerb
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the authors have created an index that offers a measure of the quality of the business formation process in 71 of the most important countries in the world.
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Reference & Dictionaries
Publication Date:
28 Dec 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857935540
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Business 2010 and before
Cover Market Platforms, Industrial Clusters and Small Business Dynamics
Market Platforms, Industrial Clusters and Small Business Dynamics
Specialized Markets in China
Ding Ke
Specialized markets are a unique product of China’s economic transition. They are marketplaces located in industrial clusters, specializing in the wholesale of local commodities and related goods. Ding Ke reveals that, despite their seemingly primitive form, specialized markets appeared in many of the modern industrial sectors and were paradoxically upgraded and expanded as these clusters developed. He argues that specialized markets have also formed solid linkages with marketplaces in various cities in China and in other developing economies. A powerful, emerging market-oriented distribution system has thus appeared. Based on thorough fieldwork covering ten years, and using the novel theory of the platform, this book clarifies the unique development logic of specialized markets.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Jul 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781006283
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Economics 2012
Cover Community Co-Production
Community Co-Production
Social Enterprise in Remote and Rural Communities
Editors: Jane Farmer, Carol Hill, and Sarah-Anne Muñoz
This book addresses a clutch of contemporary societal challenges including: aging demography and the consequent need for extended care in communities; public service provision in an era of retrenching welfare and global financial crises; service provision to rural communities that are increasingly ‘hollowed out’ through lack of working age people; and, how best to engender the development of community social enterprise organizations capable of providing high quality, accessible services. It is packed with information and evidence garnered from research into the environment for developing community social enterprise and co-producing services; how communities react to being asked to co-produce; what to expect in terms of the social enterprises they can produce; and, how to make them happen.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Jun 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849808415
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Social And Political Science 2012
Cover Economic Integration in East Asia
Economic Integration in East Asia
Perspectives from Spatial and Neoclassical Economics
Editors: Masahisa Fujita, Satoru Kumagai, and Koji Nishikimi
Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of this book argue, integration may intensify regional inequalities in East Asia and so this process has attracted much attention of late. Will it actually succeed in achieving greater economic growth or will it in fact cause growing regional disparity?
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Monograph Book
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30 Sep 2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848443907
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover Testing Global Interdependence
Testing Global Interdependence
Issues on Trade, Aid, Migration and Development
Editors: Ernest Aryeetey and Natalia Dinello
This, the first book in the Global Development Network series, brings together the views of researchers from the developing and developed world and provides models of successful research conducted in developing and transition countries.
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Monograph Book
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25 Apr 2007
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847205858
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover Decision-Making on Mega-Projects
Decision-Making on Mega-Projects
Cost–benefit Analysis, Planning and Innovation
Editors: Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Bert van Wee
This book enlarges the understanding of decision-making on mega-projects and suggest recommendations for a more effective, efficient and democratic approach. Authors from different scientific disciplines address various aspects of the decision-making process, such as management characteristics and cost–benefit analysis, planning and innovation and competition and institutions. The subject matter is highly diverse, but certain questions remain at the forefront. For example, how do we deal with protracted preparation processes, how do we tackle risks and uncertainties, and how can we best divide the risks and responsibilities among the private and public players throughout the different phases of the project?
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Feb 2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848440173
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover The Regional Impact of National Policies
The Regional Impact of National Policies
The Case of Brazil
Editor: Werner Baer
Brazil is a country of continental proportions whose gross domestic product is unevenly distributed among its various regions. The impact of general domestic economic policies has often been perceived as not being regionally neutral, but as reinforcing the geographic concentration of economic activities. This detailed book examines the regional impact of such general policies as: industrialization, agricultural modernization, privatization, stabilization, science and technology, labor, and foreign direct investment.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 May 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857936707
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Economics 2012
Cover Global Exchange and Poverty
Global Exchange and Poverty
Trade, Investment and Migration
Editors: Robert E.B. Lucas, Lyn Squire, and T. N. Srinivasan
This book examines how policies implemented by members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) affect development and poverty in developing and transition economies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Feb 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781000601
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development
International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development
Editor: Robert E.B. Lucas
This Handbook summarizes the state of thinking and presents new evidence on various links between international migration and economic development, with particular reference to lower-income countries. The connections between trade, aid and migration are critically examined through global case studies.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
26 Dec 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782548072
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Economics 2014