Development economics and emerging economies

This book explores the effects of product market and labour market reforms on firms, labour institutions and labour rights in the economic and industrial relations system in India.

We live in a fundamentally changed world.

This book shows how philanthropy can be a primary force in the transfer of technology in transitional societies.

At the end of World War II, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization and self-sustaining economic growth.

The book studies the relationship between economic agglomeration and environmental pollution from a spatial perspective through theoretical analyses and empirical discussions.

There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power.

Hundreds of millions of people still suffer from chronic hunger and food insecurity despite sufficient levels of global food production.

Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia.

Why are some people poor?

This book places the presidency of Donald Trump as well as the brewing Sino-American Cold War within the broader historical context of American hegemony in Asia, which traces its roots to Alfred Thayer Mahan's call for a naval build up in the Pacific, the subsequent colonization of the Philippines and, ultimately, reaching its apotheosis after the defeat of Imperial Japan in the Second World War.

This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution.

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.

This book provides a thorough introduction to and examination of agricultural value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality.

This book, based on the study of 33 projects in India aided by six European donors The European Commission, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom-seeks to examine the aid programmes from the perspective of poverty reduction.

The Middle East is at an unprecedented crossroads between the established Euro-centric system and the emerging Asian powerhouses like India and China.

This book examines corruption in theoretical and empirical literature and how macro- and micro-level approaches have been followed to study the issue.

This volume examines the concept of global social policy architectures and its emergence across issues and through time.

This book explores the struggle for gains from direct investment between multinationals and developing countries.

Although Argentina's use of genetically modified (GM) soybean seeds has spurred a major agricultural boom, it has also had a negative impact on many communities.

This title was first published in 2003.

The message of this courageous classic book is that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people.

What can be done to ensure natural resources aren't exploited?

The Macroeconomics of Developing Countries provides a comprehensive discussion of the exogenous factors and macroeconomic policies that affect the business cycle, long term growth, and distribution of income in developing countries.

Social assessment for projects in China is an important emerging field.

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods.

South-South migration contributes significantly to the development of the emerging economies, the migration of receiving countries and, at the same time, generates a major share of remittance income flowing into the sending countries.

A variety of viewpoints is offered in this timely analysis of China's economy and the future shape of Beijing's energy consumption.

Much of the existing literature within the "e;varieties of capitalism "e; (VOC) and "e;comparative business systems "e; fields of research is heavily focused on Europe, Japan, and the Anglo-Saxon nations.

Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors.

Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia investigates why two countries that appeared to be at more or less the same stage of economic development at one point in time have diverged so substantially.

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries.

This book examines the relationship between the English language and growth - economic and inclusive - in India.

This book provides a detailed review of the accumulated experience and lessons from China's agricultural reform and opening-up since the late 1970s, examining various aspects of this transition and providing a new perspective that can contribute to developing economic theories.

This book sets out to explore the new role of China in Brazilian politics and geopolitics.

Through comparative studies of aid-supported infrastructure projects in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book examines how aid could assist development processes by facilitating development of local endogenous institutions.

This collection provides access to up to date, very high quality research and critical perspectives on China's CCIs on an industry by industry basis.

For some twenty-five years after 1949, China did not exist and the country was only rediscovered in the 1970s.

Africa is a diverse continent.

Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change.

How women increasingly became economic agents in early modern Europe is the focus of this stimulating book, which highlights how female agency was crucial for understanding the development of the Western European economy and sheds light on economic development today.

Originally published in 1984 this book focuses principally on the use of foreign aid by the members of OPEC in the 1970s and demonstrates how the divisive elements both within OPEC and between OPEC and the rest of the developing world prevented OPEC from using aid to advance developing world objectives.