Development economics and emerging economies

This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.

Originally published in 1989.

Is the economic reform of Central Europe influenced by or an influence upon capital markets?

In emerging economies, one of the most prevalent types of business is the family firm, from small food carts to bigger nation-wide businesses and every type in between.

First published in 1982, this reissue deals with the theory of underdevelopment, as Dr.

Transnational Mobility and Global Health spotlights the powerful and dynamic intersections of human movement, inequality, and health.

In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

It is now widely recognised that rising inequality of income and wealth on the one hand and a slowdown in the rate of economic growth on the other are two of the most important challenges faced today by the global economy as well as by most of the developing economies.

Competitive advantage as it existed in the 1970s and 1980s is no longer valid.

This book introduces in an accessible way how CSR and its reporting are being used to address problems of corruption and tax evasion or tax avoidance.

China's Market Communism guides readers step by step up the ladder of China's reforms and transformational possibilities to a full understanding of Beijing's communist and post-communist options by investigating the lessons that Xi can learn from Mao, Adam Smith and inclusive economic theory.

The Quest for Press Freedom is a book about press development and freedom in Ethiopia, with a focus on the state media.

This book journeys through human history, beginning with the tribal age and ending with an option for what's to come after the knowledge age.

The main research problem addressed in the book is the one regarding the role that export diversification could play for enhancing economic growth in Colombia, both in terms of new products and new geographic markets.

This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruption and rapid change, impacting public policy with unprecedented impact globally, nationally, regionally, and locally.

This book proposes an institutional economics approach to development banking in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis.

This book focuses on strategies to achieve economic diversification in Asian landlocked countries.

Brazil has famously been called a country of contradictions.

This collection of essays explores the opportunities and risks of the liberalization of trade in services in South Asia.

Japan has increasingly emphasized democracy assistance since the mid-2000s, such that it now constitutes a major part of Japan's foreign policy.

This book examines the past, present and prospects of regional economic integration in Africa.

This book examines the textile and clothing Industry of India and its trade scenario from a global perspective.

Development and Democracy confirms the robust relationship between levels of economic development and democracy, but suggests that globalization is a key variable in determining the tenuous nature of this relationship in the periphery of the world economy.

Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya?

This book provides empirical insights into the relationship between capital and equity-ownership structure of Indian manufacturing companies and their financial performance.

This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages.

India has one of the worlds largest tribal populations.

The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly.

Many analysts are looking to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as the promoters of more equitable and democratic forms of development because of their status as actors in civil society.

This book is an update of the annual flagship study by the Asia Competitiveness Institute at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, that dissects Indonesia's sub-national competitiveness at both the provincial level (covering 34 provinces) and the regional level (covering six major island groups).

With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis.

First Published in 1993.

This book focuses on East Asia, which has been attracting FDI and a centre of industrial agglomeration, and because of this, the production structure in the world has been dynamically transforming.

This collection of essays draws from over thirty years of work by noted economist Pranab Bardhan to address the inter-related themes of international trade, growth, and rural development.

This book offers a rich multidimensional analysis of the history and structure of the flow of people between India and the EU.

Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention.

This book reflects on Nigeria's fourth republic, the country's longest democratic period since it gained independence from Great Britain.

'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.

This book provides guidance to government policy makers on making public-private partnerships in infrastructure successful.

China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world.

This book examines the economic and business history of Sudan, placing Sudan into the wider context of the impact of imperialism on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch gibt dem interessierten Leser auf hohem wissenschaftlichem Niveau einen profunden Überblick über die wichtigsten Organisationen und Institutionen im weiten Bereich internationaler wirtschaftlicher Kooperation und Integration – zum Beispiel: die WTO, den internationalen Währungsfonds, die Weltbank sowie die OECD und die Europäische Union.

This book includes papers presented at the 11th International Conference "e;Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries"e; (EBEEC), held in Bucharest, Romania, in May 2019.

This book is about how Chinese entrepreneurs deal with China's most important institution-the government-in their struggle to survive and even prosper in China's transitional economy.

Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged behind.

In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context.