Development economics and emerging economies

This book provides essential background on China''s bid for increasing influence over the US hegemonic architecture of international financial institutions.

This book presents new research on solar mini-grids and the ways they can be designed and implemented to provide equitable and affordable electricity access, while ensuring economic sustainability and replication.

This Report objectively reflects the whole year's progress of politics, economy, society, culture, system, environment, innovation and reform as well as the problems, challenges and countermeasures in traditional special economic zones and new special economic zones.

Through the prism of 'Nowa Huta', a landmark of socialist industrialization, Trappmann challenges the one-sided account of Poland as a successful transition case and reveals the ambivalent role of the European Union in economic restructuring.

This first-of-its-kind collection summarizes current trends in the economic scenario of India and China in the backdrop of globalization and outlines not only the goals and strategies for development but also the policies to achieve those goals.

South Korea: Challenging globalisation and the post-crisis reforms examines the major economic issues flowing from the Korean financial crisis of 1997 and covers such issues as industrial relations, macroeconomic sectors, the role of administrations, and corporates' globalisation process by over-expanded foreign direct investment.

Outlines how to rethink society''s economic, political, and social institutions and actions to take to build better societies.

This book investigates how strategic marketing is influencing organizations' innovation performance.

Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries.

Drawing on a wide range of expertise, this volume addresses fundamental issues surrounding industrialization in Southeast Asia, which are particularly pressing now that the region's miracle has been transformed into a debacle, and the world seeks to draw lessons from the experience.

This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version.

Cooperative Enterprises is the first textbook to examine the evolution of the cooperative enterprise model and the contribution that cooperatives can make to the economy and society.

This book addresses one of the most critical issues facing global business leaders and the multicultural workforce - how to work and relate effectively in the intercultural contexts.

This work examines ideas about the role of law and legal reform in the creation of market economies, focusing on the process of post communist transition in Russia.

Globalization is defined in economic terms to mean freer flows of trade, foreign direct investment and finance, and liberalization of trade and investment policies.

In less than three decades, China has emerged as the world's largest exporting nation with more than $2 trillion exports annually.

Part of a mini-series of Focus books on COVID-19 in Malaysia, the chapters in this book address the pandemic's impact on business and the economy in Malaysia.

Although a number of selected African countries have made efforts to implement various financial sector reforms, many countries have not fully implemented the requisite reforms required for sustainable development.

Analysis of North African revolt against authoritarianism, known as the 'Arab Spring', embraced reductionist explanations such as the social media, youth unemployment and citizens' agitations to regain dignity in societies humiliated by oppressive regimes.

How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like People Express and LA Gear burn out after promising starts?

Internal conflicts, dictatorship, and economic disintegration characterized the first twenty-five years of Uganda's independence from British colonial rule, which culminated in the reign of Idi Amin and a violent civil war.

We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance.

There is a large literature dealing with the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to emerging and developing economies at the aggregate level.

Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization discusses the domestic and external factors that impinge upon the process of technological capability building in developing countries and draws policy implications.

This book brings together a collection of chapters that investigate sustainable tourism development in different Asian contexts; from stakeholders' perspectives, existing issues in the market, as well as the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism.

Reveals how political change and economic development led to the collapse of democracy and the origins of the Spanish Civil War.

More than half of the world's sovereign states are small economies.

"e;A thoughtful reconsideration of China's actual place in the new world order, based on reality rather than fanciful speculation.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries.

Intensive study of small firms in industrial clusters and locations on how to create jobs and achieve Make in India goals.

First Published in 1985.

This book brings together contributions that explore various dimensions of the pandemic from a long-term development perspective.

There is growing consensus in the literature that trade and trade policy matter for a pro-poor growth and development strategy.

Based on neuroscience research, this book presents and demonstrates a 'Ten Enablers' model as a framework to help change leaders successfully lead and manage change.

First Published in 1977.

First published in 1987, Agricultural Extension Worldwide presents an international perspective on agricultural extension and highlights extension as an integral function of agricultural development.

This indispensable study offers an in-depth analysis of advertising in developing and emerging economies as they join the global market and seek to improve the socio-economic condition of their citizens.

Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and action towards the realization of agricultural development outcomes.

Judith A.

This book is a collection of studies on economic development and growth in selected African countries.

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