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15 Oct 2007 |
Informal Institutions
Informal institutions — family and kinship structures, traditions, and social norms — are often decisive factors in shaping policy outcomes and this book advocates a pragmatic way of dealing with them. |
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28 Sept 2007 |
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run, 960-2030 AD, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
This book uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. This edition has been revised and updated and Chapter 4 is new. It concludes that China will resume its... |
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20 Sept 2007 |
Public-Private Dialogue in Developing Countries
This analysis identifies the advantages that public-private dialogue can bring, while cautioning against the very real dangers it can present to fragile states and recent democracies. |
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18 Apr 2007 |
The Visible Hand of China in Latin America
Latin America is looking towards China and Asia -- and China and Asia are looking right back. This is a major shift: for the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s ... |
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27 Oct 2006 |
The Ladder of Competitiveness
Using empirical data from over 50 countries, this book shows how even small differences in a number of factors combine to boost or block productivity, and proposes two new measures as alternatives to simple comparisons of industrial productivity. |
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11 Oct 2006 |
Meeting the Challenge of Private Sector Development
Explores how governments can help firms in developing countries better seize the opportunities created by globalisation and contribute to improving employment opportunities and poverty reduction. |
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18 Sept 2006 |
The World Economy
The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective (2001) and The World Economy: Historical Statistics (2003). This new edition contains Statlinks, so that readers can access the... |
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26 Jul 2006 |
Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
This study helps users find their way through the jungle of governance indicators, and shows how they tend to be widely misused both in international comparisons and in tracking changes in individual countries. |
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12 May 2006 |
The Rise of China and India
This book demonstrates how the growing economic power of China and India is already influencing the growth patterns of African countries, particularly oil- and commodities-exporting ones. |
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02 Dec 2005 |
Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa
Southern Africa suffers from disproportionately expensive capital which denies the region its full growth potential. This book presents ideas and proposals for reducing the cost of capital in the region. |
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17 Nov 2005 |
Policy Coherence Towards East Asia
This book looks at the impact of OECD country policies on East Asia in trade, investment, agriculture, finance, aid, macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. Further, it examines the interaction of OECD country policies and their coherence... |
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18 Oct 2005 |
Guaranteeing Development? The Impact of Financial Guarantees
This volume tests the relevance and usefulness of guarantees to public and private actors in developing countries, especially for funding development projects. |
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15 Oct 2004 |
Regional Integration, FDI and Competitiveness in Southern Africa
By analysing investment flows and examining the role of foreign direct investment in key industries, this book examines why Southern Africa has not become a magnet for FDI and what it needs to do to attract more investment. |
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28 Sept 2004 |
Governance Culture and Development
Drawing notably on the experience of France, this book examines whether good corporate governance generates national growth. It finds that it is a society's entire governance culture -- corporate and public governance together rather than either of... |
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30 Oct 2009 |
The Making of Global Finance 1880-1913
This book traces the roots of global financial integration in the first “modern” era of globalisation from 1880 to 1913 and can serve as a valuable tool to current-day policy dilemmas by using historical data to see which policies in the past led to... |
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12 Feb 2004 |
Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book examines recent progress made in the region’s privatisation effort in Sub-Saharan Africa. With cumulative proceeds of privatisation accounting for just $8 billion compared to $46 billion in transition economies over the same period, it is ... |
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12 Feb 2004 |
Institutional Efficiency and its Determinants
New Institutional Economics (NIE) takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding economic phenomena like growth, efficiency and income distribution. The authors of this book attempt to provide an integrated methodology, hitherto lacking in NIE ... |
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11 Dec 2003 |
Ownership and Partnership
Partnership Forums are the means by which the OECD Development Assistance Committee provides a venue for non-governmental actors to express their points of view. This book presents the proceedings of the December 2000 Forum on Onwership and Partnership. |
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25 Sept 2003 |
The World Economy
Following on from his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective, published by the OECD in 2001, in this book, Angus Maddison offers a rare insight into the history and political influence of national accounts and national accounting. |
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20 Mar 2003 |
Public Opinion and the Fight against Poverty
Sustaining the fight against global poverty will be possible only if the "wider civil society", i.e. citizens in richer countries, actively and critically support international development co-operation efforts. The willingness undoubtedly exists ... |
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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Informal Institutions
OECD Development Centre
15 Oct 2007
Informal institutions — family and kinship structures, traditions, and social norms — are often decisive factors in shaping policy outcomes and this book advocates a pragmatic way of dealing with them.
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run, 960-2030 AD, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Angus Maddison
28 Sept 2007
This book uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. This edition has been revised and updated and Chapter 4 is new. It concludes that China will resume its...
Public-Private Dialogue in Developing Countries
OECD
20 Sept 2007
This analysis identifies the advantages that public-private dialogue can bring, while cautioning against the very real dangers it can present to fragile states and recent democracies.
The Visible Hand of China in Latin America
OECD Development Centre
18 Apr 2007
Latin America is looking towards China and Asia -- and China and Asia are looking right back. This is a major shift: for the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s ...
The Ladder of Competitiveness
Daniel Cohen and Orsetta Causa
27 Oct 2006
Using empirical data from over 50 countries, this book shows how even small differences in a number of factors combine to boost or block productivity, and proposes two new measures as alternatives to simple comparisons of industrial productivity.
Meeting the Challenge of Private Sector Development
Federico Bonaglia
11 Oct 2006
Explores how governments can help firms in developing countries better seize the opportunities created by globalisation and contribute to improving employment opportunities and poverty reduction.
The World Economy
Angus Maddison
18 Sept 2006
The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective (2001) and The World Economy: Historical Statistics (2003). This new edition contains Statlinks, so that readers can access the...
Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
Charles P. Oman and Christiane Arndt
26 Jul 2006
This study helps users find their way through the jungle of governance indicators, and shows how they tend to be widely misused both in international comparisons and in tracking changes in individual countries.
The Rise of China and India
Andrea Goldstein, Nicolas Pinaud, Helmut Reisen and Xiaobao Chen
12 May 2006
This book demonstrates how the growing economic power of China and India is already influencing the growth patterns of African countries, particularly oil- and commodities-exporting ones.
Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa
Nicolas Pinaud and Martin Grandes
02 Dec 2005
Southern Africa suffers from disproportionately expensive capital which denies the region its full growth potential. This book presents ideas and proposals for reducing the cost of capital in the region.
Policy Coherence Towards East Asia
OECD Development Centre
17 Nov 2005
This book looks at the impact of OECD country policies on East Asia in trade, investment, agriculture, finance, aid, macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. Further, it examines the interaction of OECD country policies and their coherence...
Guaranteeing Development? The Impact of Financial Guarantees
James Winpenny
18 Oct 2005
This volume tests the relevance and usefulness of guarantees to public and private actors in developing countries, especially for funding development projects.
Regional Integration, FDI and Competitiveness in Southern Africa
Andrea Goldstein
15 Oct 2004
By analysing investment flows and examining the role of foreign direct investment in key industries, this book examines why Southern Africa has not become a magnet for FDI and what it needs to do to attract more investment.
Governance Culture and Development
Nicolas Meisel
28 Sept 2004
Drawing notably on the experience of France, this book examines whether good corporate governance generates national growth. It finds that it is a society's entire governance culture -- corporate and public governance together rather than either of...
The Making of Global Finance 1880-1913
Marc Flandreau and Frédéric Zumer
30 Oct 2009
This book traces the roots of global financial integration in the first “modern” era of globalisation from 1880 to 1913 and can serve as a valuable tool to current-day policy dilemmas by using historical data to see which policies in the past led to...
Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Céline Kauffmann, Marie-Anne Valfort and Lucia Wegner
12 Feb 2004
This book examines recent progress made in the region’s privatisation effort in Sub-Saharan Africa. With cumulative proceeds of privatisation accounting for just $8 billion compared to $46 billion in transition economies over the same period, it is ...
Institutional Efficiency and its Determinants
Frank Bodmer, Silvio Borner and Markus Kobler
12 Feb 2004
New Institutional Economics (NIE) takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding economic phenomena like growth, efficiency and income distribution. The authors of this book attempt to provide an integrated methodology, hitherto lacking in NIE ...
Ownership and Partnership
Ian Smillie and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte
11 Dec 2003
Partnership Forums are the means by which the OECD Development Assistance Committee provides a venue for non-governmental actors to express their points of view. This book presents the proceedings of the December 2000 Forum on Onwership and Partnership.
The World Economy
Angus Maddison
25 Sept 2003
Following on from his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective, published by the OECD in 2001, in this book, Angus Maddison offers a rare insight into the history and political influence of national accounts and national accounting.
Public Opinion and the Fight against Poverty
North-South Centre of the Council of Europe and OECD
20 Mar 2003
Sustaining the fight against global poverty will be possible only if the "wider civil society", i.e. citizens in richer countries, actively and critically support international development co-operation efforts. The willingness undoubtedly exists ...