Development economics and emerging economies

The focus of the volume is on dealing with uncertainties and challenges within the global marketplace brought by digital technology companies that are leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, robotic automation, augmented reality, and other recent advancements.

Examines how the emergence of North Korea''s political economy was fundamentally shaped by broader processes of geopolitical contestation.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the links between migration and remittances.

An up-to-date collection of essays by leading academics and Burma specialists covering some of the key economic, ethnic, political and social problems which currently confront Burma.

This book delves into the critical issue of ensuring the long-term financial viability of local governments in the diverse region of Southern Africa.

This cross-disciplinary business book develops insight into the management of businesses operating in various economic sectors that take a proactive approach to the triple dimension of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), positioning itself as a key reference for both academics and practitioners in the wide area of business management.

The effects of globalization on economy and society are highly contested subjects in academic and political arenas.

The remarkable economic growth of Asia has been the defining feature of the second half of this century.

This book employs a variety of perspectives such as Institutional, Social Democratic, Marxist, Gender and Informal, Biblical and Dalit, to critically examine the impact of neo-liberal globalisation on both formal and informal sectors of the labour market and the industrial relations system.

This is a book discussing China's economic transition and development since the beginning of modern times.

Since the early 1990s, the achievement of 'good governance' has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development.

This book analyses how religion is entangled in people's lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.

This book provides up-to-date information on globalisation trends and the transformations taking place in emerging markets.

This book analyses the magnitude of the relationship between family background and adult occupational and educational outcomes and provides a comprehensive view of intergenerational mobility in the context of religious and caste dynamics in India.

This book offers a new interpretative key, which we call 'a stage and eclectic approach', to the development of clusters.

This book reviews the latest methods of sustainable investing and financial profit making and describes how ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) analysis can identify future business opportunities and manage risk to achieve abnormal returns.

This book explores how education influences economic and social development.

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Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development provides scholarly and practical knowledge on a range of issues often associated with local food system development.

In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region.

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This book examines state-state relations and new forms of state business relations that have emerged with an increase in China's foreign direct investments in Malaysia.

This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia's "e;revolution for dignity"e; and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution.

First published in 1984, this work explores the issues surrounding the industrialisation of the Third World at the beginning of the 1980s.

This book contains up-to-date original contributions by some of the world's best known experts in the area of urban and regional science.

This book discusses various dimensions of Indian fiscal federalism, focusing on the current fiscal imbalances - both vertical and horizontal - and their correction.

The book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of corporate integrated reporting (IR) in South Asia.

The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania).

This book is an original study on the development of media technologies, communications and social networks in South Africa.

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying 'a person is a person through other persons'.

The wave of protests and populist uprisings in the Middle East has heightened the focus on a volatile region.

Defines uneven development in China and India in terms of development strategies and their outcomes.

Food crises have always tested societies.

This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics.

While tourism is a key economic generator for many countries, emerging economies are confronted with additional challenges that those well-established destinations in North America, Australia and Europe normally don't have to contend with.

In The Pursuit of Happiness, the latest addition to the Brookings FOCUS series, Carol Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness, across and within countries at different stages of development.

This book, a valuable reference for students of policy and politics, considers policies towards trade, technology transfer and multinational investment as well as general monetary policies and discusses how development policies may be improved.

The evergreen debate over government's involvement in business continues in earnest.

This book investigates the roles of industrial clustering and of tertiary educational institutions in the development of industrial clusters and competitiveness.

This book explores sustainable development from the perspective of the post-communist experience of Eastern Europe.

This book examines the various issues and concerns faced by Indian agriculture under the obligations of WTO and the Free Trade Agreements.

Market Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan.