Development economics and emerging economies

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

The book explains the impact of bank business models on company business models by discussing the relationship among banks decision-making processes, sustainable values creation in company business models, and ESG risk.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems.

This book reviews the latest methods of sustainable investing and financial profit making and describes how ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) analysis can identify future business opportunities and manage risk to achieve abnormal returns.

This book aims to inform better energy policy in hydropower dependent countries which are vulnerable to climate shocks.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book provides an empirical analysis of economic and political structures impacting the CFA franc zone.

Over the last decade, socially responsible investments (SRIs) have become paramount to both professionals and academics.

The digital economy is a new direction in which the modern global economic system is now heading.

This volume describes the most salient changes faced by key Chinese industry sectors as defining components of global and domestic macroeconomic performance.

This book, the second of two volumes, is inspired by the famous philosopher of India, Kautilya, author of the first book on economics in the world, Arthashashtra.

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008.

This book discusses several product development strategies and tools employed by organizations around the world to implement frugal innovations.

Most books on Islamic finance and development issues are written from an academic perspective.

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present.

This book addresses the paradox between preponderance of hunger in a continent that is well endowed with fertile agricultural land, plenty of fresh water and a vibrant labor force.

This book offers new perspectives on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region.

This book is an essential guide to understanding how managers in China and Southeast Asia make effective economic decisions.

The book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent.

This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it.

Hidden champions are highly successful small and medium-sized companies that are global leaders in terms of market share in their respective niches.

This book sheds light on current issues in sustainable finance through an in-depth analysis and discussion of relevant sustainable products and sustainable initiatives of several financial institutions.

This book explores financial trends in the age of financial globalization and explores the changing roles within the global financial industry.

The monetary system is the indispensable missing link in the debate of sustainability, and whether the current financial system can handle these evolved needs.

The book assesses emerging powers' influence on international economic law and analyses whether their rhetoric of reforming this 'unjust' order translates into concrete reforms.

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

Economic, social, political, and cultural institutions, and institutional change reflect shared journeys of humanity throughout history.

This volume offers fresh insights into economic development and growth in emerging economies.

This textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts of social processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a wide range of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art, populism and political economy.

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics.

This book presents an empirical investigation of the efforts that multinational pharmaceutical companies take in order to find a business model that allows for a profitable access to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets.

The book sets out to explore the economic motivations of imperial expansion under capitalism.

This book provides new insights into combining economic theory and ethics, and how to formulate policies to combat the roots of poverty.

This book explores Jamaica's contemporary relationship with the International Monetary Fund since 2010.

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 provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US-owned multinational firm, Chiquita Brands International.

This book explores the diverse experience of Bangladesh's development over the last fifty years and provides systematic explanations of its success in socioeconomic development.

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Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society.

This book discusses the geopolitics of development from the point of view of the Global South.

This book explores three particular strategies in the extractives sector for creating shared wealth, increased labour opportunities and positive social, environmental and economic outcomes from corporate projects, namely: state wealth funds (SWF), local content policies (LCP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.

This book discusses the case for socialism and the models of socialist planning.

Despite growing discussions on the relationship between sustainability and finance, so far little attention has been given to the relation linking sustainability-related risks and financial risks.

Sustainable investing is a rapidly growing and evolving field.

This book demonstrates the flow of the international trade of secondhand goods and examines the socio-economic background and mechanisms of the trade.

This book mobilises the theory of uneven and combined development to uncover the geopolitical economic drivers of China's rise.

This edited volume examines the challenges of globalization in light of the need to revisit and reconceptualize the notion of Pan-Africanism.

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today's linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible.

This volume discusses the development of the Mexican manufacturing sector during the NAFTA era.

The rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging markets is topical, important and poses a number of questions and challenges that require considerable attention in the future from academia as well as business management.