Omar A. Guerrero (London The Alan Turing Institute), Gonzalo Castaneda (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas)

Complexity Economics and Sustainable Development

A Computational Framework for Policy Priority Inference

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a novel framework for overcoming analytical challenges in sustainable development. It walks the reader through an analytic toolkit and familiarises them with a diverse set of empirical applications. Audience includes academics from development economics, policy sciences, computational social science, and complexity science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781009016544
• ISBN-10: 1009016547
• Artikelnr.: 68481183

Autorenporträt

Omar A. Guerrero is the Head of Computational Social Science Research at The Alan Turing Institute, London. He was an Oxford Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at the University College London, as well as consulted for governmental bodies and international organisations.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. A Complexity Approach to Sustainable Development: 1. Introduction
2. Policy prioritisation, complexity, and agent computing
3. Relevant data and empirical challenges
4. A computational model
5. Calibration and validation
Part II. A Global View of Sustainable Development: 6. The feasibility of the sustainable development goals
7. Government spending and structural bottlenecks
8. Public governance and sustainable development
9. The impact of international aid
Part III. A Focalised View of Sustainable Development: 10. Subnational development and fiscal federalism
11. Accelerators and systemic bottlenecks
12. Deprivation, income shocks, and remittances
13. Lessons and reflections.