Development economics and emerging economies

This comprehensive second edition provides an up-to-date introduction to the nature of ecological degradation in a world of dramatic environmental change.

This book combines modern evolutionary economics and classical political economy.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Development is an accessible and interdisciplinary textbook that introduces the concept of sustainable development to students from across the disciplines from economics, management, teacher education, arts and humanities to the natural and social sciences.

Contemporary Issues in Development Finance provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of theoretical and policy issues in development finance from both the domestic and the external finance perspectives and emphasizes addressing the gaps in financial markets.

Using data from the World Values Survey, this book sheds light on the link between happiness and the social group to which one belongs.

This book combines overviews of the nature and causes of inter-group violence in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa with a collection of country case studies.

NESsT is an organization that develops sustainable social enterprises to solve critical social problems in emerging market economies.

This book gathers a collection of essays presented from the perspective of a spatial planner whose working life has been immersed in South Asia.

In a first approximation, profit may seem like a simple and intuitive concept, but the definition is not limited to a single conceptual category.

This book leaves no stone unturned in its comprehensive examination of the complex challenges surrounding academic freedom in Africa.

This book explores how the development of innovative urban agricultural businesses is creating social innovation and changing the perception and behavior of urban residents, with a focus on Shanghai, China, a global city that has achieved economic growth amid rapid urbanization.

This volume uses cutting-edge theory and empirical analysis of channels of international interaction to build new knowledge about strategies of entrepreneurs, domestic and multinational firms, governments, and international organizations facing increasing globalization.

This book explores the levels of cooperation and the phenomenon of convergence among BRICS nations.

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Handbook of Economic Stagnation takes a broad view, including contributions from orthodox and heterodox economists who examine situations in countries and worldwide regions, including Japan and the Euro area.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

First Published in 1967.

This book examines the economy of sharing in a variety of social and political contexts around the world, with consideration given to the role of sharing in relation to social order and social change, political power, group formation, individual networks and concepts of personhood.

Contemporary India's political landscape is characterized by a great deal of social upheaval.

Food insecurity can result from various events.

This is the first major historical study of Tanzania''s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75.

First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of 'specificity', general theory and social change.

Microfinance has become an important component of development, poverty reduction and economic regeneration strategy around the world.

Nonreciprocal preferential trade arrangements are a defining feature of the relationship between developed and developing countries dating back to the colonial era.

First published in 1984, this textbook analyses, at both aggregate and micro economic levels, the contemporary industrial conditions in Third World countries and relates this to the process of economic growth and structural transformation.

This edition of OECD's annual Development Co-operation Report provides key statistics and analysis on the latest trends in international aid.

Soviet Geography (1935) presents a comprehensive account of the economic development of the USSR as it stood at the time.

Responding to the need for organizations to improve global strategic planning and execution, this book presents a framework for effectively conceiving and executing new concepts for international markets.

Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects.

Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women's lives.

This study presents the economic system of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Social Market Economy.

This volume focuses on the issues and debates surrounding the agricultural export economy of Central America.

This volume addresses the changing nature of the international aid system and the challenges it poses for the multilateral system, donors and aid recipients, centring on new regional and national relationships developing in the multilateral system, economic and social forces, and national and global policy making.

This book examines the global and domestic factors that have influenced the decline of South African manufacturing.

This book examines the challenges that ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members need to overcome in order to sustain and intensify economic growth.

This book analyzes the underlying theoretical principles of multi-objective linear programming problems with multi-choice parameters.

This book examines the problem of the innovation divide in the world economy, and convergence in innovation performance between leaders and followers, analysed through the prism of Chinese experiences, and explored from an European Union (EU) perspective.

This book provides a longitudinal study of developing country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations.

This book examines European countries' engagement in promoting regional integration in the East African Community (EAC).

The purpose of this book is to highlight how current successful Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs) and companies have changed their business or business models in the past three decades.

China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades.

This book examines qualitatively and quantitatively the exploitation of Africa through six centuries of colonialism and imperialism.