Development economics and emerging economies

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects.

Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history.

This book focuses on the recent political and economic events in the former Yugoslavia.

At a time when global debates about the movement of people have never been more heated, this book provides readers with an accessible, student-friendly guide to the subject of forced migration.

On 1 August 2008 the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law entered into force, introducing a comprehensive framework for competition law to the Chinese market.

Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists.

The problem of corruption, however described, dates back thousands of years.

This book is about providing a comprehensive framework for understanding business ethics and corporate governance.

This book contributes to the adoption of agricultural technology in general and to literature on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in particular by identifying the factors that influence the decision to adopt SRI and examining SRI's impact on household income and yield.

This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy.

Social entrepreneurs are change makers that aim to solve society's unsolved problems.

How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption.

The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy.

This book provides a systematic framework for effectively creating value through engineering in global business networks, and contributes to an increasingly important branch of engineering operations.

This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm.

Economic and social development is and will be the main task in the long run in China, and development is the basis and key to solve the problems faced.

This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts?

Ethical discourse is commonly not a priority in a conventional finance syllabus.

This book uses the state-level panel data to identify some of the important correlates of employment growth/elasticity and indicators of quality-employment.

Gathering contributions from leading academics and international trade experts from South Asia, this book is dedicated to the late Dr.

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This book investigates the role of social protection amongst African pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, with a particular focus on Ethiopia.

This book discusses aspects of policy and techno-economic analysis of renewable energy in developing countries.

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

This book examines financial vulnerability: a state in which a person or household cannot absorb any substantial spending or negative income shock without substantial financial and ultimately broader harm such as job loss, emotional harm, or mental illness.

This pioneering work focuses on the crucial role that the cooperation of Japan, a major stakeholder in production networks in North America, is playing in supporting Mexico's domestic suppliers of the automotive industry.

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries.

This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015.

The Handbook of Energy Policy is a unique and novel reference for addressing the policy implications of energy demand and supply from their economic, political, social, planning, and environmental aspects.

This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-owned enterprises in various industries alongside numerous small-scale, energy-intensive and polluting enterprises.

This work responds to the increasing need in many countries to better understand linkages between intellectual property, trade rules, and economic and social development, and to find new ways of implementing intellectual property rules and optimizing their effects.

This book bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical understandings of the informal sector to provide insight into the role of the informal sector within the development process.

This book explores how the financial system should be regulated and structured to achieve the twin goals of inclusive growth and financial stability, with a focus on African low-income countries (LICs).

Oil and Development in the Arab Gulf States (1985) brings together in one volume the manifold sources of information on the Arab Gulf region, especially the impact of oil revenues on its economic, political and social development.

The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Economics offers new insights into the rapidly-developing economies of Southeast Asia.

The internationalization of emerging economies has brought new perspectives to international business development.

The Horn of Africa has suffered repeated disasters: wars, drought, famine, mass refugee movements and environmental decline.

William Petty (1623-1687), long recognised as a founding father of English political economy, was actively involved in the military-colonial administration of Ireland following its invasion by Oliver Cromwell, and to the end of his days continued to devise schemes for securing England's continued domination of that country.

Conditionality has long been used by the IMF, and more recently by World Bank and bilateral donors, as an instrument for improving the effectiveness of international finance.

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America?

Business Sustainability Factors of Performance, Risk, and Disclosure examines sustainability factors of performance, risk and disclosure.