Development economics and emerging economies

This book discusses the geopolitics of development from the point of view of the Global South.

A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved.

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s.

This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres.

George Bernard Shaw once said that reasonable people adapt themselves to the world but unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves.

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry, which considers developments at local, national and global levels.

Development and the State in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive analysis of the state's role in contemporary development.

This book examines major policy and planning issues in development studies from the regional science perspective.

This volume is the record of a conference held in March 1989 that centered on a departure from the basic U.

Praise for the First Edition: `It is a guide of vital importance to researchers, trainers and extension workers, especially those collaborating with communities in developing countries' - European Journal of Development Research `There is much of value here that even experienced development workers might learn from.

Through the lens of African emerging economies, this text examines empirical studies and the related practices of agritourism.

Ours is the most dynamic era in human history.

This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.

For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

Circular Economy in Developed and Developing Countries: Perspective, Methods And Examples discusses practical examples of formation of circular economy in the developed and developing world.

As national leaders struggle to revive their economies, the people of Europe face a stark reality, which has created an opportunity for local leaders and citizen movers and shakers to rise to the occasion to spur revitalization from the bottom up.

The integration and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in African countries is increasingly observable in various sectors of activity (banking, education, trade, etc.

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

The COVID-19 crisis has fractured the pre-existing structural rigidities and institutional fragilities in the economies of developing countries more than ever, necessitating a rethinking of fiscal and monetary policies, the main vehicles for relief, recovery and reconstruction.

From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa.

The aim of this edited volume is to bring together the views of expert academics and practitioners on the latest regulatory developments in sustainable finance in Europe.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2023), organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop.

An estimated 75% of the infrastructure that societies will depend on in 2050 does not yet exist, reflecting $139 trillion of investment over the next quarter century.

Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions.

Household vulnerability to weather shocks and changing climatic conditions has become a major concern in developing countries.

This book provides unique insight into the economic and humanitarian challenges facing Lebanon following the Syrian refugee crisis.

This collection of different views on how digitalization is influencing various industrial sectors addresses essential topics like big data and analytics, fintech and insuretech, cloud and mobility technologies, disruption and entrepreneurship.

This book provides a multilayered analysis of food import dependency and its impact on food security in the Caribbean region.

This book seeks to clarify the positive and negative lessons in the experiences of late development under neoliberal globalization.

This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor.

This book shares unique perspectives on the successful global evolution and future ambitions of Chinese consumer companies.

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research.

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia is a comprehensive, multi-sited ethnography about the unfolding of capitalism across Eurasia and the advent of a new middle class since the late Soviet era.

Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities.

Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why.

Provides insights into the complexities of the process and growth of industrialisation as it has played out in contemporary India.

Countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), most of them former components of the communist bloc, have suffered diverse influences over time.

Internationalizing your firm presents both exciting opportunities and daunting challenges, regardless of your industry.

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.

This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).