Development economics and emerging economies

Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory.

Sustainability Analysis provides a detailed exploration of current environmental thinking from a variety of perspectives, including institutional and psychological angles.

Between 1987 and 1990 Thailand experienced double-digit growth, fed by high capital inflows.

This report, first published in 1996, argues that radical changes in industrial organization and its relationship to society tend to arise in rapidly industrializing countries, and that new principles of sustainable production are more likely to bear fruit in developing than in developed countries.

A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture - and appropriate responsesThe miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation.

Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.

The relationship between the government and the market lies at the heart of Economics as a discipline.

An attempt to assist policy-makers in developing countries to cope with the challenges they face during the rest of the century and beyond.

Utilities Reform in 21st Century Australia: Providing the Essentials traces the development and consequences of the economic reform measures undertaken in the utilities sector in Australia (communications, energy, water/wastewater services, and transport) in the last years of the 20th century, and early decades of the 21st century.

This book focuses on Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo; it explores the industrial policies currently in place in these economies and compares their effects with the situation in Slovenia, which is used as a reference country.

This book highlights the latest research on responsible business and its practical implications for the economy, society, academia, and politics.

This book attempts to capture the tremendous growth in Chinese investment in the South Asian region in the recent past.

In this book, Alexander Hantzschel presents the benefits of organized networks and provides a first-ever overview of German-Sino business networks.

This report presents the outcomes of a survey project of the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

The millions of tourists who visit tropical nations annually underscore the region's significance in global tourism.

The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development.

This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance.

Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements; that settles disputes by testing hypotheses; that applies a pre-determined body of principles; and contains policy prescriptions supported by a consensus of professional opinion.

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of India's social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and explores both resilience and vulnerabilities in Indian society.

The demands of a more dynamic, globalized business world have led to sophisticated methods for quantifying marketing success.

Forget to get exhausted while finding the most updated literature and research across the area of economics of development, business and accounting.

This book explores the role of the informal sector at the beginning of the structural transformation of the Indian economy.

The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in Sao Paulo, industrial case studies and the details of three squatter settlements, and communities in the periphery researched in Simone Buechler's book, Labor in a Globalizing City, allow us to better understand the period of economic transformation in Sao Paulo from 1996 to 2003.

The contributors investigate policy paradigms and their ability to explain the policy process actors, ideas, discourses and strategies employed to provide readers with a better understanding of public policy and its dynamics.

This book provides unique insight into economic development within the ASEAN region and its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book assesses developmental experience in different countries as well as British expansion following the industrial revolution from a developmental perspective.

Until recently, the concept of Buen Vivir has only been loosely articulated by practising communities and in progressive policy in countries like Ecuador.

Managing Organizations in the United Arab Emirates seeks to familiarize readers with the nature of doing business and managing organizations in the Middle East by bringing together case studies on United Arab Emirate (UAE) organizations, one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing economies in the world.

First published in 1963, this study of corruption in the developing countries of Africa takes as its point of comparison Britain, pre-1880, as the authors question whether Britain's experience in overcoming corruption can throw any light the means of overcoming corruption in contemporary developing countries.

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

How does culture shape history, and history shape culture?

Texas' economic growth has consistently outpaced that of the United States as a whole over the past quarter century.

This book examines emerging theories, frameworks, and applications of global marketing for the 21st century.

Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital.

This book focuses on the Nordic countries through a European perspective and wishes to draw attention to their place in the new world order.

Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds.

This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors.

Heralded as opening a new chapter in international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have led to the use of global goals and quantitative targets as a central instrument for defining global priorities.

Gagliardone explores the relationship between politics, development and technological adoption in Africa for scholars of development studies, African studies and political science.

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture.

Over the last 25 years, the "e;Africa Rising"e; discourse has been used to signify hope and promise for the continent, marking a break from previous pessimistic portrayals.

First published in 1969, Advising Ministers is a general account of the arrangements for 'advising Ministers', based on a case-study, enabling the reader to judge the effectiveness of an advisory body in a particular case, which itself gained much publicity and in which hopes were high that results would be achieved.