Development economics and emerging economies

In the world of business, the ability of a business to achieve its objectives (being sustainable) is crucial.

This book elaborates on how China's previous leaders established, consolidated, developed and improved China's basic modern governance system.

Studer shows that institutional, geographical, political, and technological factors account for Europe''s rise to undisputed world economic leader.

Using data from the World Values Survey, this book sheds light on the link between happiness and the social group to which one belongs.

Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015.

China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs.

This book focuses on social perspectives of women's entrepreneurship, in the context of work-life balance and crowd-based business modelling, and economic perspectives associated with quality-of-life expectations.

This book is a critical excavation of capitalist development that is being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era, with a related focus on the anticolonial and anticapitalist resistance by Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and migrant workers in Africa, Asia/Middle East, and the Americas/Caribbean.

This book examines the connections between natural resources, tourism and community livelihood practices in Southern Africa, highlighting the successes and constraints experienced over the last 50 years.

This book, first published in 1999, compares the strategies of France and Japan in trying to win economic and political influence in the newly emerging Vietnam, which opened to the international community only after the Vietnamese Communist Party had started economic reforms in 1986.

This book discusses skill formation, upskilling of workers, and their interaction with technological change in Gulf countries.

Shows how thinking in evolutionary terms enhances our understanding of the economic and social change taking place at all levels.

This theoretically rooted and research-based book provides insights on the JESSICA funding model which - unlike the traditional non-repayable aid - focuses on supporting sustainable urban development projects in a repayable and recyclable way.

With each species lost to the mass extinction crisis, the natural economy of the nation and of the world is greatly diminished.

Most development economists are versed only in the post-World War II period of their subject.

Since Olufsen and Schulz published their monographs on the Pamirs in 1904 and 1914, respectively, this is the first book to deal with the history, anthropology and recent social and economic development of the Pamiri people in Gorno-Badakhshan, Eastern Tajikistan.

Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future.

First published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.

First published in 1967, this influential study reviews the economic development of 15 countries from East Asia in the period between 1945 and 1965.

The spread of the manufacturing industry is an important part of economic development, creating jobs, new products and trade and investment links between countries.

Microcredit took the development world by storm as a tool for poverty alleviation in the 1980s.

First Published in 2004.

The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulation and sustainable development in Bangladesh.

This book brings together research related to sustainability, green, and eco-entrepreneurship to explore what the author describes as cleaner entrepreneurship, which also links to social issues and public policy.

An important part of the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ensure that the benefits of development and economic integration are equitably shared by all member states and their citizens.

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (SDGs), agricultural productivity and sustainability, and climate change - mitigation and adaptation.

This report is a partial result of the China's Quarterly Macroeconometric Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University.

This reissue, first published in 1978, confronts a whole range of international development issues: hunger, energy, supply, population growth, pollution, the state of the cities, nuclear proliferation.

The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors.

This book offers a diverse set of perspectives on the current state of Taiwan's economy and international relations, equally considering the challenges and opportunities that could forge Taiwan's future.

Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan's development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors' aid.

Urban planning practice in Sub-Saharan Africa increasingly encounters complexities due to the confluence of urbanisation, climate change, and their interconnected drivers and consequences.

An analysis of Amartya Sen''s capability approach in the context of poverty and justice.

Good governance is a prerequisite to development, improving the quality of life, and health and ensuring equity.

Why do most growth companies stop growing?

This book focuses on the risks that climate change poses for the health sector.

This book analyzes the impacts of current and possible future GM crop applications and shows that these technologies can contribute substantially to sustainable agricultural development and food security.

Drawing upon both conceptual and empirical evidence, this volume argues the case for the centrality of social policy in development, focusing particularly on the message that social policy needs to be closely intertwined with economic policy.

This reissue of Sandar Panikkar's 1959 book is based upon a series of lectures given at the Institut d'Etude de Development Economique et Social, which spotlights the problems faced by the multitude of African and Asian states which achieved independence between 1945 and 1957.

A great deal of public policy is harnessed to raising productivity growth.

In line with rapid world economic growth, globalization has led to a decrease in global income inequality, according to the World Bank.

This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the UN's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.