Development economics and emerging economies

Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems: Theories in Culture, Empowerment, and Leadership examines the deep sociocultural dynamics supporting effective and emergent entrepreneurial ecosystems and communities for a new generation of ecosystem builders and researchers.

This book examines the behavior of high-tech startups and important aspects of innovation ecosystems in Brazil.

This book, the second of two volumes, is inspired by the famous philosopher of India, Kautilya, author of the first book on economics in the world, Arthashashtra.

This book addresses major issues such as a growing world energy demand, environmental degradation due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, and risk management of disastrous events such as pandemics, abnormal climate, and earthquakes.

Issues relating to employment and labour have once again come to the fore of global policy debates in the wake of the widespread unemployment that has accompanied the current financial crisis.

Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth.

This book examines entrenched gender bias and the economic, political, and social systems that sustain patriarchy.

South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas is an interdisciplinary collection of essays which engages with the failure of the newest African State to transition itself successfully to a state and nation after its independence in July 2011.

The Italian Cooperative Sector is amongst the largest in the world comprising over 60,000 cooperatives from all sectors of the economy directly employing 1.

The role of integration as a catalyst for economic growth, development and insulation from global shocks has made the concept of regional integration even more attractive to states.

First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.

It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians.

This book explores the workplace experiences, opportunities, and challenges that emerge from the nuances of diversity and inclusion dynamics in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim, who believe that poverty eradication could be within our grasp.

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare.

This title was first published in 2003.

Despite the significant progress it has achieved, China faces daunting challenges today.

The Annual Report objectively reflects the year's developments in terms of politics, the economy, society, culture, the environment, innovation and reform, and describes the problems, challenges and countermeasures in both traditional and new special economic zones.

The New Brazil tells the story of South Americas largest country as it has evolved from a remote Portuguese colony into a regional leader, a respected representative for the developing world, and, increasingly, an important partner for the United States and the European Union.

Jan Hauke Holste analyzes how a company can innovate and change its business model to the degree that it can climb up the value chain.

The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter) Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business.

This book outlines key parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related.

In this book, Korean multinational enterprises management strategies in China are analyzed.

This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy.

This book develops new econometric models to analyze and forecast the world market price of oil.

How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism?

This book, first published in 1979, explores the sources and patterns of the distribution of personal incomes in India, between rural and urban areas and among socio-economic classes, differentiating particularly those groups falling below the poverty line.

The emergence of China as a global economic powerhouse, the uncertain path of Russia towards a market economy, and the integration of ten Central and Eastern European countries into the European Union (EU) have occupied the minds and agendas of many policy-makers, business leaders and scholars from around the world at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This book studies the impact of different sources of external finance on growth and development in different country contexts.

For nearly two decades, emerging markets have been a primary source of growth in the world economy.

In this book, Miguel Basanez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on global development.

Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the political relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy's latest form.

In every situation, the SDGs must be accomplished with the help of society's collective creativity, knowledge, technology, and financial resources.

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment.

A guide to the experiences of economic reform since the second World War, and system reform and economic integration across the world in the past decade.

This book is a sequel to the World Bank's World Development Report 2013: Jobs.

This book presents economic and socio-cultural perspectives on globalization from emerging markets.

India is one of the major emerging economies of the world and has witnessed tremendous economic growth over the last decades.

This book is the product of a team-teaching course entitled, "e;Issues in Economic Development"e; offered to the final-year students of Department of Economics and Finance at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which economizes cost and helps large scale production.

Sub-Saharan Africa is vastly diverse, and the 49 countries of the region range significantly in terms of population, size and economic scale.

This volume examines the development of Guangdong, especially the Pearl River Delta, throughout the era of China's economic reforms and opening to the external world (from 1978 till now).

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed research papers presented at the joint IV ASOCIO/XIX IISE Region 16 Conference held in Chia and Bogota, Colombia.