Development economics and emerging economies

This book investigates the performance of economic development under different forms of government, ranging from autocratic states to liberal democracies.

In a globalized world economy, delivering the aspirations of sustainability is proving to be difficult.

Along with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the southward shift in economic power towards the newly emerging economies.

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 installment of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF), which is held annually in Singapore.

These essays examine India's relations with key powers including the Russian Federation, China and the USA and with key adversaries in the global arena in the aftermath of the Cold War.

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become a popular development policy throughout the world over the last half a century.

This book gives an overall description of China's manufacturing industry in the process of China's industrialization and comprehensively analyzes the development status, level, stage, problems, tasks and future development prospects of China's manufacturing industry.

At a time of robust worldwide debates on globalization, this compact volume showshow successful each of the East Asian economies have been in harnessing globalization by appropriate and alternative means to catch up with the advanced economies andwhat implications can be drawn to assess Chinese economic growth in context.

First published in 1991, during a significant stagnation in the Israeli economy, this title discusses the causes of the economic downturn, and assesses the country's prospects.

Agricultural Markets in a Transitioning Economy: An Albanian Case Study throws light on the future of agriculture in transitioning economies, in particular making a case for the important role of ongoing education.

This book examines the underlying conditions that give rise to states that are effective, efficient, and bureaucratically inclusive with their developmental policies.

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, the Chinese economy has grown rapidly.

This book focuses on the competitive situation and policy outlook of China's provincial economy in the 13th five-year period.

This book analyses the impact that stabilization clauses have on the development of human rights and gender laws in resource rich nations.

The Development Co-operation Report is the key annual reference document for statistics and analysis on trends in international aid.

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more relevant for emerging and developing economies (EDEs).

Originally published in 1991, Robert Klitgaard's classic book addresses questions of enduring relevance in a lively and insightful way.

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry within the social sciences, agricultural certification, and particularly its Fair Trade and organic components, has emerged as a significant tool for promoting rural development in the global South.

Primarily concerned with how the US government can outwit its former allies in the rush to exploit their former common enemy.

Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it.

This book assesses Chinese acquisitions in developed countries, evaluates the drivers and opportunities and, above all, explores the major operational challenges.

This book's purpose is to highlight the development challenges and successes of implementing the Youth Climate Change Adaptation Development Framework in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship in developing countries.

In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries.

Since the year 2000 Latin America has been at the forefront of a series of diverse experiments with alternative forms, pathways and models of economic development and at the cutting edge of the international theoretical and political debates that surround these experiments.

Networks are thriving in global politics.

This groundbreaking work from the hugely influential economist P.

Since its emergence in the 1970s, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty in developing and transition countries.

This book presents a study of China's new urbanization, which is one of the country's major economic issues and embodies the characteristics of its economic development.

This book examines a range of current issues in Islamic development management.

This book provides an assessment of the role of the International Monetary Fund in poor countries.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

This book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces.

Based on several years of fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey, Caring for the Poor tells the stories of charity providers and volunteers.

Given the significant changes in the banking environment and the resultant pressures on banks to change their systems and procedures, this book is a timely reference that provides a comprehensive analytical overview of changes in the performance measurement system (PMS) of banks in the post-financial crisis era.

Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa explores the challenges and opportunities faced by countries and societies transitioning from armed conflicts to peace in contemporary Africa.

The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right?

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation.

This book, first published in 1987, studies the forces promoting underdevelopment in China prior to 1949 and the character of the development that has occurred since then.

For several years, the government of Paraguay has sought to address the issue of informality, both as a response to poverty reduction and a means to expand its tax base.

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