Development economics and emerging economies

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country.

This book draws lessons from the story of Sri Lanka's post-conflict development in the context of a struggle for socio-political reconciliation, a turbulent world economy, and difficult internal and external political challenges.

An unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world from 1870 to the present.

This book seeks to fill the information gap on a key emerging real estate market and demystify the perception that the market in Ghana and indeed, across sub-Saharan Africa is opaque.

This first of its kind reference provides insights into the intricacies of assessing vulnerabilities of today's emerging markets.

Based on several years of fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey, Caring for the Poor tells the stories of charity providers and volunteers.

From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy.

The Poverty of Nations demonstrates that poverty remains a universal phenomenon, even as most parts of the world see increases in affluence of varying degrees.

This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme.

Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Social Impact provides an accessible overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies, and explores their applications for social enterprise and impact investing.

Not so long ago, the Economist Newspaper described Africa as a hopeless continent.

Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa demonstrates how instead of empowering the communities they work with, the jargon of development ownership often actually serves to perpetuate the centrality of multilateral organizations and international donors in African development, awarding a fairly minimal role to local partners.

Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks.

This book delves into the transformative power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in reshaping the landscape of sustainable development in one of the world's most vibrant regions.

With the rapid increase in China's overseas investment and trade, China's global economic clout is increasing by the day.

This book, originally published in 1983, demonstrates the importance of seaports in the growth of less-developed countries.

This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) undertakes rigorous empirical research relating to competitiveness of states and federal territories in India.

This book examines the theory and global evidence on structural transformation along with stylised facts and implications using, among others, a dynamic panel model, for South Asia.

This collection analyses the potential of the North East Indian economy, discussing ways in which it can be reconnected to the mainstream economic activities of India.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, Asia is leading the global recovery with strong economic growth.

This book investigates the history of women's reproductive health in Ghana,arguing that between the 1920s and 1980s, it was largely driven by discourses ofdevelopment and population control rather than a concern for women's health orrights.

Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises?

The overall context of this book is set by the decline of the globalization paradigm's ability to grasp the complexity and uncertainty of the current era.

Notwithstanding the improved growth performance of India, development disparity across its states has widened in the first two decades of the 21st century.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam.

Growth enhancing structural change-a relocation of labour from low to high productivity sectors-is increasingly perceived as inextricably linked with the sustainable development agenda.

This book explores the concept of greening industrialisation and issues and considerations surrounding it through the lens of Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital.

Sustainable development has emerged as an overarching concern globally.

Studies the role of services in development as well as on sectoral issues, with policy considerations embedded in the analysis.

The purpose of this book is to provide a systematic and policy-focused analysis of Korea's development performance from a historical perspective.

The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars and practitioners.

Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States.

Our economies currently encourage excessive consumerism, weakening social ties, and depleting natural resources.

This book examines the subject of Development Finance, or more specifically how financial systems can help or hinder the process of human development.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

This book uncovers the many ways in which innovations and innovation system development policies have become crucial to development policy formation across Africa.

Written by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow?

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children''s human capital in low-to-middle-income countries.

Cooperation in Research and Development provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of a distinct form of inter-firm collaboration in Research & Development (R&D): research joint ventures (RJVs).