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Free Download WHO Regional Office for Europe, "Health and Economic Development in South-eastern Europe"
English | 2006 | pages: 145 | ISBN: 9289022957 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Health is increasingly seen as a robust predictor of economic growth. In the present report, the contribution of health to economic development is examined in the context of southeastern Europe, where the dynamics of health cooperation gained momentum following the Second Ministerial Health Forum, co-organized by the Council of Europe Development Bank, the Council of Europe and the WHO Regional Office for Europe, with the special participation of ministers of finance.

Free Download Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy By Dean Baker, Gerald Epstein, Robert Pollin
1999 | 534 Pages | ISBN: 0521643600 | PDF | 10 MB
In Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy, thirty-six prominent economists analyze the impact of the emerging global economy on our national sovereignty and standards of living. Does globalization cause inequality? Instability? Unemployment? Environmenal degradation? Or is it an engine of prosperity and wealth for the vast majority of the world’s citizens? The authors analyze problems, institutions and possible government responses, and conclude that globalization can be a force for good or ill depending on the degree of regulation that governments and citizens can exercise over its trajectory.

Free Download United Nations, "Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2006-2007"
English | 2008 | pages: 335 | ISBN: 9211216400 | PDF | 2,0 mb
This publication surveys the main economic events and developments of 2006 and the first half of 2007 in the light of the region’s recent economic performance. The fifty-ninth edition of the survey is aimed to provide further inputs for the economic debates concerning means of promoting a rapid, sustainable growth process capable of creating conditions conducive to an improvement in the living conditions in the region. It also describes various aspects of the region’s economic growth dynamics. The tables provided in the statistical appendix provide ready access to data for recent years and facilitate the creation of spreadsheets.

Free Download United Nations, "Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2005-2006"
English | 2007 | pages: 143 | ISBN: 9211215935 | PDF | 14,2 mb
This year’s edition of the Economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean,the fifty-seventh in this series, is divided into two parts. The first analyses the main features of the regional economy, while the second examines the situation in the individual countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The full statistical appendix is published in electronic format for ease of data processing.

Free Download Economic Adjustments in New Democracies: Lessons from Southern Europe By Diane Ethier
1997 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 0333695569 | PDF | 10 MB
Many recent books deal with the politics of economic adjustment in new democracies. However, none of them provides a thorough comparative analysis of Southern European cases. This book fills this lacuna. The first part compares the orientations and the outcomes of the economic policies carried out by the Greek, Spanish and Portuguese governments during the post-authoritarian period (1975-95). It reveals that economic adjustment has been achieved with a mitigated success in Spain and Portugal while it failed in Greece. The second part analyses the causes of these unequal performances. It shows that the latter have been decisively influenced by two factors: the government’s commitment to undertaking reforms: the autonomy of the executive toward the main political actors or its capacity to rally their support. On the whole, this work challenges various preconceived ideas about Southern Europe while confirming and complementing the main findings of similar studies devoted to Eastern European, Latin American, Asian and African new democracies.

Free Download East Asian Economic Regionalism: Feasibilities and Challenges By Guoqiang Long, Liping Zhang (auth.), Choong Yong Ahn, Richard E. Baldwin, Inkyo Cheong (eds.)
2005 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 0387243305 | PDF | 4 MB
Economic regionalism has become a worldwide phenomenon. Since the Asian financial crisis, East Asian countries are accelerating the ongoing market-driven economic integration as well as institutional economic integration. The question is whether East Asia can reach an East Asian FTA (EAFTA), which is the first step towards institutional economic integration.East Asian Economic Regionalism attempts to analyze the feasibilities of economic integration in East Asia and to discuss emerging economic integration efforts in East Asia with special reference to an East Asian FTA. Although economic integration is desirable economically, positions and approaches of each regional economy toward East Asian economic integration may differ depending on the circumstances of the countries concerned. East Asian Economic Regionalism provides diverse positions on East Asian economic integration by ASEAN countries, as well as the Northeastern countries of China, Japan and Korea. The volume also provides economic assessment of EAFTA and evaluates East Asian economic integration. East Asian Economic Regionalism may be the first book on East Asian economic integration with positions toward economic integration of major players in the region.

Free Download Justus Haucap, "Competition and Sustainability: Economic Policy and Options for Reform in Antitrust and Competition Law"
English | ISBN: 1035325381 | 2024 | 252 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Competition and Sustainability critically examines how the market economy can be preserved without compromising the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Serving as a useful overview of the problems and solutions found in one of the most controversial issues in current antitrust doctrine, this topical book offers concrete policy options for EU competition law.

Free Download Biased Technical Change and Economic Conservation Laws By Ryuzo Sato (auth.)
2006 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0387260552 | PDF | 2 MB
The principal aim of BIASED TECHNICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC CONSERVATION LAWS is twofold: to reveal the new economic significance of the old concept of biased technical change and the current application of the new concept of economic conservation laws.Although terms such as "labor saving" and "capital saving" fall under the category of biased technical change, the first of these topics, no model exists in which biased technical change gives rise endogenously to technical progress. A special feature of this book is its thorough investigation and analysis of these issues, which go far beyond existing studies in this area.The concept of economic conservation laws dates back to Ramsey’s classic study of 1928. This book primarily makes use of Lie groups to shed new light on the analysis of economic conservation laws. Economic conservation laws are not simply abstract concepts; this book shows that they are tools of empirical analysis that can be applied to such topics as analyses of macro performance and corporate efficiency.

Free Download Study Guide for Economic Growth and Development
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031570847 | 160 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
This book is a solutions manual and study guide to the 3rd edition of Economic Growth and Development. It includes solutions to all end-of-chapter questions and model-based problems within the text. In addition, each chapter contains a reader’s guide for students working through the main text, including objectives, discussion of sticking points, and main takeaways. These should prove useful to students and instructors using this book.

Free Download Economic Growth and Development: A Dynamic Dual Economy Approach
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031597273 | 452 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
Revised and updated for the third edition, this text is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development. Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical framework through which fundamental questions about economic development can be examined. Structural transformation, in which developing countries transition from traditional production in largely rural areas to modern production in largely urban areas, is an important causal force in creating early economic growth, and as such, is made central in this approach. Towards this end, the authors augment the Solow model to include endogenous theories of saving, fertility, human capital, institutional arrangements, and policy formation, creating a single two-sector model of structural transformation. Based on applied research and practical experiences in macroeconomic development, the model in this book presents a more rigorous, quantifiable, andexplicitly dynamic dual economy approach to development. Common microeconomic foundations and notation are used throughout, with each chapter building on the previous material in a continuous flow.