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Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents methods to evaluate sustainable development using economic tools. The focus on sustainable development takes the reader beyond economic growth to ...
Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation : Past Performance and Future Prospects
Many African countries have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years, yet their economic transformations display features that could constrain their future growth prospects. Particularly troublesome ...
Chilean Regional Strategies in Response to Economic Liberalization
(UNIVERSIA, 2010)
The article analyzes the foreign investment decision as a response to the economic liberalization in Chile, using data obtained from a survey of 102 managers I argue that the knowledge on strategies in response to reforms ...
Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging Asia
While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change—the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors—is the key driver of economic ...
Peruvian “Economic Success” in the Emergency Department: Close to Hell, No Place for Heaven
(Wiley, 2017)
The Peruvian story of 15 years of sustained economic growth is a commonly touted success story in a region known for economic uncertainty. Social statistics show that fewer people live below the poverty line, more have ...
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move
Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households ...
An analysis of tourism sector seasonality and its relation to the economic cyclee: the case of Spain
This study analyzes the changes in the seasonal trends in the Spanish tourism sector in relation to the economic cycle. The methodological originality of the analysis stems from its multi-dimensional index of tourism ...