Development economics and emerging economies

This book contains 48 articles pertaining to various hot issues and provides insights into the initiatives and highlights practical policies to reach the goal of green Economy.

Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people?

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people.

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality.

This book argues that for infrastructure privatization programs, differences in firm organizational structure explain the viability of privatization contracts in weak institutional environments.

This book identifies the main challenges Chinese agriculture is confronting and considers how these challenges might be met.

This book examines how international trade can be utilised to build a sustainable future.

This book identifies the main challenges Chinese agriculture is confronting and considers how these challenges might be met.

The book is based on the research concerning China's National Balance Sheet (NBS) which is conducted by NIFD, the unique research groups in China focusing on NBS.

In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current housing policies and programmes in India.

Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict.

This book, in its second edition, introduces readers to the economics of immigration, which is a booming field within economics.

Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and Chain of Custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, Non-Wood Forest Products, wood energy and Fair Trade certification.

This book is designed to scrutinize the Russian business sector in transition with special attention to firm organization, business integration, corporate governance, and company management.

This groundbreaking work from the hugely influential economist P.

A two-volume set intended for readers interested in understanding the political and cultural underpinnings of socioeconomic inequality across the globe, Inequality around the World examines key drivers and shapers of inequality at the local, national, and international level.

Does modernization in Asia mean westernization?

Rapid growth in the Chinese economy over the past three decades poses puzzles and challenges to neo-classical economic theory, as policies implemented during the reform process were often unorthodox.

This essential text addresses the growing need for a dedicated coursebook for students and teachers of world development.

This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets.

This book sheds light on the dollarization trends of four transitional economies in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline of economics and political economy.

The OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years.

Among a vast literature on the Asian economies, the book proposes a distinctive approach, inspired by Regulation Theory, in order to understand the current transformations of the Asian economies.

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society.

The book analyzes the recovery process of different industries and sectors from the global health pandemic, as well as its collateral effects.

Rent seeking continues to be a topic of much discussion and debate within the political economy.

Vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges.

This volume examines the role of higher education and employment in economic development in emerging economies like India.

The future growth and development of Asia - the most dynamic economic region in the world today - will have important implications for the rest of the global economy.

Migration - both within and between countries - is increasingly one of the world's most important policy issues.

2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the start of China's reform and opening up policy, which created China's growth miracle with an annual average growth rate of around 9.

This book provides an empirical analysis of economic and political structures impacting the CFA franc zone.

This collection reflects on the international political economy of media and the valuable lessons to be learned from the media reforms currently taking place across South America.

This book constitutes a valuable manual for young and seasoned business researchers alike, and provides a comprehensive summary for the whole research journey.

Over fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush released his enormously influential report, Science, the Endless Frontier, which asserted a dichotomy between basic and applied science.

As one of the most pioneering development economists, Hans Singer has stimulated many of the ideas that have engaged the attention of the world community for several decades.

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.

Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state.

Cultural Heritage Management in Africa explores the diversity of Africa's cultural heritage by analysing how and why this heritage has been managed, and by considering the factors that continue to influence management strategies and systems throughout the African continent.

This book argues that the way in which we use the concept of "e;state"e; in many African countries must involve a deeper engagement of the complex workings of state-society relations, rather than a master narrative of European state formation.

This volume seeks to develop new narratives on China's alternative policy and challenges policy makers on gender, regional, income and wage inequalities among rural migrant workers in China.

This collection of papers is from Palgrave's journal Comparative Economic Studies, carefully selected by a team of expert editors, this volumes collates the most sophisticated works to provide the readers with an essential guide to the economic development of China.

The contributors to this collection examine the progress and impact of the 'new poverty strategies' which have governed the policies of development agencies over the past decade.

Brazil has undergone transformative change since the 1980s, from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society advancing on all frontspolitical, social, economic, and diplomatic.

International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.

Venezuela's Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding of OPEC.

Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia: Status, Challenges, and Policy Options is based on agricultural extension reforms across five South Asian countries, reflecting past experiences, case studies and experiments.