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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811174503321

Autore

Gill Indermit Singh <1961->

Titolo

Diversified development : making the most of natural resources in Eurasia / / Indermit S. Gill, Ivailo Izvorski, Willem van Eeghen, Donato De Rosa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , [2014]

ISBN

1-4648-0120-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 373 pages) : illustrations ; ; 27 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

GillIndermit Singh <1961->

De Paiva DiasMariana Iootty

Disciplina

333.7095

Soggetti

Economic development - Eurasia

Natural resources - Eurasia

Eurasia Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Institutions, Capital, Natural Resources"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Overview -- Diversifying naturally -- Foreign trade -- Economic structures -- Natural resources -- Built capital -- Economic institutions.

Sommario/riassunto

Development policy discussions in Eurasia often become debates about how economies can be made more diversified. For a region that is resource-rich, this is to be expected. But Eurasian economies have in many ways become less diversified during the past two decades. At the same time, people are much better off today than they were in the 1990's: poverty has been cut in half, incomes have increased five-fold, and education and health have improved noticeably since the tumultuous days following the collapse of communism. Eurasia's economies have become more efficient: they are more integrated with...