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13 Nov 2002 |
Trading Competitively
Presents evidence confirming the existence of a wide array of policy options for increasing business competitiveness and reducing dependence on primary commodities in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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06 Nov 2002 |
Electronic Commerce for Development
This publication shows new information and communications technologies like mobile telephony and the Internet have been affecting low-income communities and small entrepreneurs in emerging economies. |
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08 Oct 2002 |
Development is back
The Organisation's Development Centre was founded in 1962 as one means to study and to try to confront the problems of comparative development and to relate them to experiences in the more advanced economies. This book provides a compendium of that... |
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26 Sept 2002 |
Education and Health Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in East Africa
This book demonstrates that in the case of very poor countries, policies aimed at universal provision of education and health services benefit the poor significantly more than more expensive targeted schemes. |
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31 May 2002 |
FDI from Developing Countries
This book illustrates Korea's experience with outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the ancillary benefits of such investment -- knowledge and management transfer, market acquisition and skills enhancement -- can be substantial for... |
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27 May 2002 |
Education and Health Expenditure, and Development
This book pleads for a series of policy orientations leading towards pro-poor health and education spending. |
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11 Mar 2002 |
Emerging Africa
This study analyses the factors underlying the renewed dynamism of certain African economies in the 1990s. |
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12 Sept 2001 |
Don't Fix, Don't Float
Don´t Fix, Don´t Float is a book about credibility, or lack thereof. It deals with questions pertaining to international financial architecture from the perspective of developing countries, emerging markets and transition economies. |
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12 Sept 2001 |
The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy: Colombia
This book explains how various forces related to each other and how the conflicts were resolved - or not in Colombia's transtion to an open economy. |
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12 Jun 2001 |
The World Economy
Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000 when rich countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa. The gap between the world leader, the US and the poorest region, Africa, is ... |
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02 Oct 2000 |
Facts about European NGOs Active in International Development
This statistical analysis demonstrates that NGOs have moved out of the "amateur" world in which they were once confined into, in many cases, highly professional activities and that they have become major partners for governments in the development field. |
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21 Jul 2000 |
Regional Integration and Internal Reforms in the Mediterranean Area
The authors of this study highlight the opportunities trade liberaliastion agreements offer for supporting reforms to encourage industrial restructuring through financial transfers, providing incentives for producers to diversify, and securing new... |
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09 Mar 2000 |
Policy Competition for Foreign Direct Investment
This book looks at the evidence and assesses the impact of competition among governments to attract FDI. It finds little evidence directly to support fears of a "global race to the bottom" in labour and environmental standards. |
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09 Mar 2000 |
Economic Opening and Growth in China
In this volume, the specific effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into China is measured quantitatively and estimated on a regional basis. The authors find that there is a much more complex relationship between such flows and growth... |
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14 Dec 1999 |
Conflict and Growth in Africa
This book is about conflict. It approaches the problem in five Southern African countries from the standpoint of economic analysis. |
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23 Nov 1999 |
Conflict and Growth in Africa
This is a book about conflict. It identifies aggravating economic factors, proceeds to an appreciation of its economic cost, then proposes economic policy changes for Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
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13 Sept 1999 |
Conflict and Growth in Africa
This is a book about conflict. It identifies aggravating economic factors in conflict, proceeds to an appreciation of its economic cost, and then proposes economic policy changes which would tend towards reducing the potential for conflict in the Sahel. |
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26 Aug 1999 |
Competition, Innovation and Competitiveness in Developing Countries
This book therefore opens a fresh debate on the industrial policies which developing countries need to adopt in order to compete and grow in a globalised economic environment. |
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26 Apr 1999 |
Education, Migration and Productivity
This book challenges the assumption that the major benefits of investment in rural education accrue to traditional agricultural activities, such as staples production. |
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20 Nov 1998 |
Public Attitudes and International Development Co-operation
This collection of studies of public attitudes to development co-operation in OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Member countries demonstrates that the concept of "aid fatigue" is misplaced. A serious lack of adequate knowledge about ... |
Development Centre Studies
OECD Development Centre
This series of monographs from the OECD Development Centre covers development issues generally and in some cases issues in specific countries. It includes Angus Maddison’s books containing long-term historical estimates of GDP for various areas of the world.
- ISSN: 19900295 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/19900295
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Trading Competitively
Federico Bonaglia and Kiichiro Fukasaku
13 Nov 2002
Presents evidence confirming the existence of a wide array of policy options for increasing business competitiveness and reducing dependence on primary commodities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Electronic Commerce for Development
OECD Development Centre
06 Nov 2002
This publication shows new information and communications technologies like mobile telephony and the Internet have been affecting low-income communities and small entrepreneurs in emerging economies.
Development is back
OECD Development Centre
08 Oct 2002
The Organisation's Development Centre was founded in 1962 as one means to study and to try to confront the problems of comparative development and to relate them to experiences in the more advanced economies. This book provides a compendium of that...
Education and Health Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in East Africa
Christian Morrisson
26 Sept 2002
This book demonstrates that in the case of very poor countries, policies aimed at universal provision of education and health services benefit the poor significantly more than more expensive targeted schemes.
FDI from Developing Countries
Byung-Hwa Lee
31 May 2002
This book illustrates Korea's experience with outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the ancillary benefits of such investment -- knowledge and management transfer, market acquisition and skills enhancement -- can be substantial for...
Education and Health Expenditure, and Development
OECD Development Centre
27 May 2002
This book pleads for a series of policy orientations leading towards pro-poor health and education spending.
Emerging Africa
Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Jean-Michel Salmon, Ludvig Söderling and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte
11 Mar 2002
This study analyses the factors underlying the renewed dynamism of certain African economies in the 1990s.
Don't Fix, Don't Float
OECD Development Centre
12 Sept 2001
Don´t Fix, Don´t Float is a book about credibility, or lack thereof. It deals with questions pertaining to international financial architecture from the perspective of developing countries, emerging markets and transition economies.
The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy: Colombia
Sebastian Edwards
12 Sept 2001
This book explains how various forces related to each other and how the conflicts were resolved - or not in Colombia's transtion to an open economy.
The World Economy
Angus Maddison
12 Jun 2001
Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000 when rich countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa. The gap between the world leader, the US and the poorest region, Africa, is ...
Facts about European NGOs Active in International Development
Adèle Woods
02 Oct 2000
This statistical analysis demonstrates that NGOs have moved out of the "amateur" world in which they were once confined into, in many cases, highly professional activities and that they have become major partners for governments in the development field.
Regional Integration and Internal Reforms in the Mediterranean Area
Sébastien Dessus and Akiko Suwa
21 Jul 2000
The authors of this study highlight the opportunities trade liberaliastion agreements offer for supporting reforms to encourage industrial restructuring through financial transfers, providing incentives for producers to diversify, and securing new...
Policy Competition for Foreign Direct Investment
Charles P. Oman
09 Mar 2000
This book looks at the evidence and assesses the impact of competition among governments to attract FDI. It finds little evidence directly to support fears of a "global race to the bottom" in labour and environmental standards.
Economic Opening and Growth in China
Sylvie Démurger
09 Mar 2000
In this volume, the specific effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into China is measured quantitatively and estimated on a regional basis. The authors find that there is a much more complex relationship between such flows and growth...
Conflict and Growth in Africa
Andrew Goudie and Bilin Neyapti
14 Dec 1999
This book is about conflict. It approaches the problem in five Southern African countries from the standpoint of economic analysis.
Conflict and Growth in Africa
Jeni Klugman, Bilin Neyapti and Frances Stewart
23 Nov 1999
This is a book about conflict. It identifies aggravating economic factors, proceeds to an appreciation of its economic cost, then proposes economic policy changes for Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Conflict and Growth in Africa
Jean-Paul Azam and Christian Morrisson
13 Sept 1999
This is a book about conflict. It identifies aggravating economic factors in conflict, proceeds to an appreciation of its economic cost, and then proposes economic policy changes which would tend towards reducing the potential for conflict in the Sahel.
Competition, Innovation and Competitiveness in Developing Countries
Lynn Krieger Mytelka
26 Aug 1999
This book therefore opens a fresh debate on the industrial policies which developing countries need to adopt in order to compete and grow in a globalised economic environment.
Education, Migration and Productivity
J. Edward Taylor and Antonio Yúnes-Naude
26 Apr 1999
This book challenges the assumption that the major benefits of investment in rural education accrue to traditional agricultural activities, such as staples production.
Public Attitudes and International Development Co-operation
North-South Centre of the Council of Europe and OECD
20 Nov 1998
This collection of studies of public attitudes to development co-operation in OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Member countries demonstrates that the concept of "aid fatigue" is misplaced. A serious lack of adequate knowledge about ...