Development economics and emerging economies

A Brookings Institution Press and the National Council of Applied Economic Research publicationThe India Policy Forum (IPF) is a new annual publication dedicated to research on the contemporary Indian economy.

The post 2000 period for India has been quite eventful for Indian economy.

This book is an introduction to one of the fast-developing core pillars in business, sustainability, as well as how it is closely tied into the concept of service.

The United States lost one third of its factory jobs in the past decade as jobs were outsourced offshore, mostly to Asia.

Ever since Shaw and McKinnon published their path-breaking works on financial development in 1973, there has been extensive research on the effects of monetary and financial policies on economic growth of developing countries.

Interrogating the notion of developmental regionalism as applies to Southern Africa, this volume explores the policy options and interventions necessary to ensure a peaceful and stable regional development process.

This book presents stimulating new perspectives on three key sets of issues: a fair globalization, the policies that might be adopted in response to protectionist pressures, and sustainable development policies involving G7 and G20 actions to lay the foundations for renewed trust.

This title was first published in 2003.

Originally published in 1990.

This book provides an innovative theoretical and empirical exploration of the political participation and democratic capability of people living in authoritarian states.

Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate.

Richard Doner compares Thai economic development with competing nations, revealing how specific political factors shape institutional capacity in each.

Long run processes of socio-economic change generate prodigious problems of social conflict and social control, and governments responsible for these processes must therefore manage the resultant conflict.

Managing biosecurity is everybody's business.

The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa's political elite to anchor the continent's development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance.

This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance.

A sophisticated yet accessible analysis of economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Traditional understandings of economic development in low- and mid-income countries have largely been influenced by the economic narrative of Western Official Development Assistance (ODA).

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) aims to achieve greater integration between the ASEAN region and its six free trade agreement (FTA) partners (India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Korea).

Rising from a position of relative poverty in 1980, China is now the world's second-largest economy and a leader in many fields of innovation.

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

A US/Brazil trade conflict on the Brazilian protectionist electronics policy developed during 198589.

The authors emphasize that an economy's competitiveness relies on purposive and intermeshed measures at the meta-, macro-, meso-, and micro- level and a multidimensional guidance concept consisting of competition, dialogue and shared decision-making which integrates the key groups of actors.

This book covers key discussions involving major US and European multinational companies (MNCs) that source products from suppliers in developing countries.

Hunger and malnutrition stalk the countries of the South.

Asian countries are undergoing rapid political, economic and social transformations; meanwhile, there is a growing demand for knowing more about Asia.

China has experienced tremendous developmental success since its reform and opening-up policy in 1978.

This volume brings together some of the best-known and highly-regarded academics in the field to present a timely and comprehensive review of the prospects for economic integration and development in Southern Africa, and to analyse alternative strategies and policies for the future.

The International Monetary Fund has been criticised from both the right and the left of the political spectrum with the right arguing that it is too interventionist and creates more problems than it solves and the left on occasion demanding that it be abolished altogether.

This book considers the importance of African values, not only in catalysing development, but in sustaining it.

South Korea underwent rapid economic development under a semi-military, virulently anti-communist government which banned trade unions and kept close checks on the economy.

This book surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since World War II.

Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

New Urban Management discusses how the logic of economic flows poses a challenge to local governments throughout the world.

Since the turn of the century, Africa has been emerging economically, politically and socially and striving to assert itself on the global stage.

Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods demonstrates how home gardens hold particular significance for resource-poor and marginalized communities in developing countries, and how they offer a versatile strategy toward building local and more resilient food systems.

This innovative atlas deconstructs the contemporary image of the North-South divide between developed and underdeveloped countries which was established by the 1980 Brandt Line, and advocates the need for the international community to redraw the global map to be fit for the 21st century.

A burgeoning literature is currently exploring the rise of a new migratory profile: migrants engaged in Transnational Entrepreneurship, referring to immigrants who are engaged in cross-border business involving their country of origin and destination, both perceived as lands of opportunity.

This title was first published in 2003.