Development economics and emerging economies

This book addresses topics and issues of high relevance to the widely shared desire to promote inclusive growth, sustainability, and innovation within a context of global governance.

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The industrial development of emerging markets has been a powerful driver for mergers and acquisitions.

This book offers a comprehensive discussion of how green finance has been growing thus far and explores the opportunities and key developments ahead, with particular emphasis on Europe.

A response to the pressing need to address and clarify the substantial ambiguity within current literature, this edited volume aims to deepen readers' understanding of the impact of foreign aid on development outcomes based on the latest findings in research over the past decade.

Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country's independence in 2002, and no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country.

Capturing the overall development of the Chinese economy, this comprehensive book offers an introduction to one of the most astonishing economic growth stories of the last three decades.

This book provides a business-oriented analysis of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

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

Internationalizing your firm presents both exciting opportunities and daunting challenges, regardless of your industry.

This book focuses on the restructuring of distressed businesses, emphasizing the need for new financing during the restructuring process as well as during relaunch, and examines the role of law in encouraging creditor confidence and incentivizing lending.

This book is an introduction to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the economic community founded by Southeast Asian nations.

This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism.

This book provides an essential overview of trade between Brazil and China, analyzes the regulatory framework for Brazil's foodstuff exportation and China's foodstuff importation, and identifies the main products, market shares, barriers to market access, and e-commerce strategies.

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002.

There are few industries in today's world as dynamic and dramatically changing as the space sector, with new ventures and initiatives being announced on a daily basis.

Analysing developments in digital technologies and institutional changes, this book provides an overview of the current frenetic state of transformation within the global automobile industry.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Waqf management and its impact on socio-economic development, specifically financial inclusion and sustainable development as well as of the legal issues in Waqf management in IsDB member countries and jurisdictions.

This book explores the various aspects of Waqf management in IsDB member countries/jurisdictions as well as in non-Muslim majority countries.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the rapidly evolving COVID-19, increasing population growth, and exponential expansion in demand for agricultural commodities are putting pressure on available resources, thereby posing immense challenges to the region's capacity to achieve nutritional security related to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind.

This book provides a general framework for the use of theoretical contributions in empirical works, addressing the question of what is the effect of a price change on household well-being.

This proceedings volume examines the impact of ethics on business and entrepreneurship predominantly from the Romanian perspective.

This book addresses key aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and explores them from a variety of perspectives in a case study on the Marange diamond mines in Zimbabwe.

This book explores new perspectives on how to improve the chances of success regarding capacity building in developing and emerging countries.

This book is among the first to address the issue of assessing the efficiency of sustainable development financing from a theoretical and methodical point of view.

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 focuses on the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure development project intended to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

This book argues that ideas in the social realm are the context-bound products of distinct histories and cultures and thus cannot be co-opted across place and time.

The book covers financial inclusion in the southern cone (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile) and its impact on public finance.

A true revolution has rocked the space industry, as Silicon Valley and new startup companies around the world have shaken up the status quo.

This book contributes to the microeconomics of growth among SMEs in less-developed countries.

This book presents economic and socio-cultural perspectives on globalization from emerging markets.

'This is a desperately needed book.

This Handbook responds to the needs and aspirations of current and future generations of development economists by providing critical reference material alongside or in relation to mainstream propositions.

The emergence of mobile money and other new forms of payment has changed the sovereign foundations of money.

On the backdrop of the institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, and the emergence of multi-stakeholder-driven voluntary regulation, this timely collection places special emphasis on India and explores its international voluntary sustainability standards.

This book outlines a number of different perspectives on the relationship between science, technology, and innovation in emerging economies.

This book focuses on the regulatory aspect of retail investor protection in the context of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the Indian securities market.

This book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics.

This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This contributed volume presents the outcomes of multidisciplinary studies on the problem of sustainable economic development.

"e;A must read for anyone interested in understanding complexities of development process.

This book focuses on the role of subsistence entrepreneurs in creating social and sustainable business opportunities on the global marketplace.

This book develops new econometric models to analyze and forecast the world market price of oil.

This book examines the behavior of high-tech startups and important aspects of innovation ecosystems in Brazil.

This book examines the patterns, characteristics, causes and coping mechanisms of the poor in Afghanistan applying econometric and statistical techniques.

This book uses lessons from history to help African countries take charge of their own economic development agenda.

This book provides a political economy perspective on Chile's contemporary economic development, explaining the different stages of Chile's neoliberal pattern of economic integration into the global economy from 1973 to 2015.

Development largely depends on how given places participate in global economic processes.