Adam Szirmai

Socio-Economic Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, this textbook offers a non-technical introduction to the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 794
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1894g
• ISBN-13: 9781107045958
• ISBN-10: 1107045959
• Artikelnr.: 42025936

Autorenporträt

Adam Szirmai is Professorial Fellow at the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and Professor of Development Economics at Maastricht University. His research focuses on the determinants of long-run growth, catch up and stagnation in the developing world, with particular emphasis on the role of the manufacturing sector. A second focus of his research concerns the relationships between innovation, technological change and economic growth.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
1. Developing countries and the concept of development
2. Development of the international economic order, 1450-2015
3. Growth and stagnation: theories and experiences
4. Technology and development
5. Population and development
6. Health, healthcare and development
7. Education and development
8. Economic development, structural change and industrialisation
9. Industrial development
10. Agricultural development and rural development
11. State formation and political aspects of development
12. Cultural and institutional dimensions of development
13. The international economic and political order since 1945
14. Foreign aid and development
References
Author index
Subject index.