Development economics and emerging economies

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa.

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch.

Attempts to halt the destruction of rain forests and other natural habitats in the tropics have met with little success.

This book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not only become an important concept for corporate organizations but also civil society, community, state and the multilateral and bilateral development agencies.

This book explores the effective management of HR functions in an African context.

When employees gain new knowledge, they can become more empowered and engaged in their work.

China is poised to gain global importance as a growth engine for the world economy on a par with Europe and the USA.

Recently, real and artificial barriers to international transactions have fallen sharply, causing a rise in the overall volume of international trade.

This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail.

This book delves into the intricacies of transformative processes, focusing particularly on radical and disruptive changes that shape markets, social systems, organizations, cities, and service ecosystems.

Over the past two decades international entrepreneurship has become a key issue in international business studies.

The trade-investment-service-intellectual property (IP) nexus remains at the heart of economic development and the main features of which are global value chains (GVCs) and digitalisation.

This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional organisations.

This book focuses on Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo; it explores the industrial policies currently in place in these economies and compares their effects with the situation in Slovenia, which is used as a reference country.

Tourism in European Microstates and Dependencies carefully examines the nuances and realities associated with tourism, social and economic development, geography, and geopolitics of Europe's smallest microstates and dependencies.

Whereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare measures, this book fills a much needed gap in the research looking how the composition of public spending affects key development outcomes in the region.

This book highlights the importance of understanding how trust and indigenous African cultural institutions enhance the development of entrepreneurial networks and relationships in Africa.

The book is the first attempt to offer a holistic and integrated exploration of the political-economic framework underpinning economic regionalism.

This book explores the development of Zhejiang province, an eastern coastal province of China.

The world, of late, has seen a productivity slowdown.

This book provides a general description and evaluation of the process of urbanization in China and the urgent challenges facing the Chinese government.

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital.

This book offers essential insights into potential catastrophic events that might befall upon the emerging urban landscape in South Asia, and which are due to hazards, risks and vulnerabilities inherent in the region's geophysical location, as well as due to climate change and unplanned urbanization.

Small island developing states (SIDS) are characterised by high economic, geographical and social vulnerability.

Many new development initiatives have been introduced in Africa over the past few decades.

How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world.

A guide to how the World Trade Organization interprets the rules and solutions to disputes between its Members.

This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the changes that have taken place in the systems and practices of Japanese management over the last quarter century, identifies the positive and useful attributes that ought to be maintained, and clarifies the behavioral principles that form the groundwork of their strengths.

Developing countries in East Asia recorded remarkable economic growth until the Asian financial crisis erupted in mid-1997.

This book explores the existing and diverse institutional bottlenecks of land acquisition, ranging from legal and social to political and even environmental within the Asian context.

This reissue, initially published in 1984, examines the evolution of international financial flows to Latin America since 1945, along with their implications for National Development .

Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation.

Globally recognised and endorsed by EU policies, creative industries play a pivotal role in fostering cultural diversity, social cohesion, and technological innovation.

The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century socialist models.

Historical Dictionary and Environmentalism, Third Edition provides a balanced and wide-ranging overview of the most important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide.

The key to achieving mass flourishing is culture - not genes, geography, institutions, or policies.

The 2008 financial crisis triggered the worst global recession since the Great Depression.

Drawing on years of research and direct experience in Bangladesh, Stiles pulls together theoretical strands from economics, sociology, and anthropology to help explain an emerging social structure in the Third World.

This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015.

Development results and aid effectiveness have moved to the centre of the development debate and all players are looking at a more results-oriented approach.

A comprehensive explanation of information institutions as they relate to the success of subnational capital markets Global trends in decentralization and the growing role of world cities have increased the importance of infrastructure development.

It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline.

This topical volume deals with the major challenges of migration in the Global South and their governance, which are traditionally much less considered than migration to industrialized countries and its consequences.

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