Development economics and emerging economies

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

The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift at the World Bank from a focus on structural adjustment to a focus on poverty reduction.

Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters.

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on the political and social perspectives that commons offer, how they are appropriated or suppressed by capital and state, and how social initiatives and movements contest these dynamics or build their struggles on commoning.

The world, of late, has seen a productivity slowdown.

This book is one of the first fully-fledged studies to examine the next world-class industrial leaders emerging from China and India; exploring the domestic and international factors that have led to their rise, and comparing their experiences with other East Asian late-comers such as Japan.

This volume presents selected papers on recent management research from the 20th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which was held in Vienna in 2016.

With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant.

Economic development is one of the key issues that has confronted Africa since the beginning of independence, more than a quarter-century ago.

This book examines the connections between natural resources, tourism and community livelihood practices in Southern Africa, highlighting the successes and constraints experienced over the last 50 years.

This book elaborates on the distinction between societal innovation and social innovation.

With a growing market currently in excess of $150 billion, outsourcing has become a critical boardroom agenda.

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional perspectives.

Any enquiry into the nature, performance, role, demerits, growth, efficiency, or other aspects of financial services such as banking and insurance activities, requires rigorous estimates of their economic output, i.

This book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership.

Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities.

Originally published in 1989, this book is a clear and thorough guide to the workings and purpose of the futures markets.

First Published in 1980, The Foundations of Nigeria's Financial Infrastructure presents a comprehensive overview of different aspects of Nigeria's financial developments.

This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor.

This book explores the impact of geopolitical changes on financial reporting, transfer pricing, and foreign investment flows.

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects.

This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability.

This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa.

Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world.

This book highlights the principles and practices that lead to sustainable and positive leadership within SME.

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state.

This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies.

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion.

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying 'a person is a person through other persons'.

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lived in cities.

The book assesses the development experience by reflecting on a number of aspects, su--ch as growth in relation to employment, regional imbalances and rural-urban distribution.

Tourism has increasingly become a vital element in the economic development of the Indian Ocean region.

First published in 1997, this study sees the small enterprise as performing specific tasks within the larger societal system of production and distribution, and as being shaped and adapted to the specific social and economic, locally specific environment of which it is a part.

Wealth is no longer just an ability to live well in a world shaped by human activities.

This collection of essays honors a remarkable man and his work.

New Perspectives in International Development focuses on the latest thinking in the field, moving the debate into areas such as the connection between security, conflict, and development, managing energy crises, the impact of environmental and climate change, and the role that technology can play in alleviating these challenges.

Demonstrates how we can, and why we should, apply the arts in development to promote meaningful economic and social progress.

The Oil Industry in India (1971) examines the issues relating to the oil industry of an oil-importing country, and was the first of its kind.

This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and associated problems.

This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world's most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change.

This book explores empirical studies and policies related to green finance and low-carbon technology development through country-level case studies and regional analyses across East and Southeast Asia.

This volume provides comprehensive updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China.