Development economics and emerging economies

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture covers major theoretical issues as well as critical empirical shifts in gender and agriculture.

Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book investigates the challenges of resettlement in East Africa, where half of those displaced are children.

The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy and public administration.

This text is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development.

Chinese banks have been making headlines recently, but what lies beneath?

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.

Since the introduction of the One Belt, One Road initiative (OBOR), first proposed in late 2013, international scholars have begun to study this new policy and its implications in the global age.

This book investigates the relationship between heritage and development from the global visions articulated by UNESCO and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to local activism, livelihood innovations and political strategies employed in diverse countries of the Global South.

Published in 1998, this book reviews two of the World Bank's agricultural development projects in southeast Nigeria, and concludes that the objectives of these projects - which include reducing rural poverty and developing indigenous capacity for rural development - have not been fully realized.

With the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China began a program of agricultural reform intended to increase productivity.

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

This book, the second of two volumes, brings together the work of Domenico Mario Nuti to highlight his significant and varied contribution to economics.

Microlending programs for low-income microentrepreneurs have become a global priority since the development of the Grameen Bank in 1976 and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations in 2015.

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people across all levels of society with smartphones in their hands and computers in their homes.

Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.

This volume examines the concept of economic sustainability through the everyday practices of education, production, distribution, consumption, economic development, and public policy.

Russia's new 'pivot to Asia' increases the global significance of Russia's Siberia and Far East.

One of the most striking phenomena of China's remarkable economic growth is that its huge volume of exports are becoming high-tech.

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant.

China and other Third World societies cannot 'catch up' with the rich countries.

Originally published in 1975, this book was something of a pioneering study.

The success or failure of economic assistance programs is a shared responsibility of recipient countries and donors.

"e;Hidden Champions"e; are medium-sized, unknown companies with annual revenues under $5 billion that have quietly, under the radar, become world market leaders in their respective industries.

This book explores the disconnect between fiscal policy and macroeconomic development in South Africa.

Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states.

This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently resilient to cope with the ecological and social challenges that confront them.

This book provides industry insights and fresh ideas for the advancement of the most vital global industry - food.

Manufacturing in the UK has an image problem.

Women have historically provided vision and leadership to African countries and are now being recognized as pivotal to the overall sustainable development of Africa.

This book analyzes and assesses corporate restructuring and governance in transition countries focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia.

Production and innovation activities are being re-distributed across the world.

Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, prepared by Warsaw-based Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), discusses various aspects of currency crises in emerging-market economies: The definitions and theoretical models of currency crises, the causes, management and propagation (contagion effect) of crises, their economic, social and policy consequences, the role of international financial institutions, and crisis prevention.

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This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China''s unexpected economic boom of the past three decades.

This book explores the controversial Anglo-American struggle over empire and economic globalization in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

Davies explores and questions the central business challenges of a world in transition.

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world.

This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources.

Barack Obama's "e;rebalancing"e; or "e;pivot"e; strategy, intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia-Pacific region in a variety of military, economic, and diplomatic contexts, was launched with much fanfare in 2011.

The prevailing ideology in Ontario at the time was a conservative culture that rejected everything American and attempted to preserve the best of the British world in the new Eden.

Korea was the first non-G7 member and Asian country to host the recent G20 Summit, acting as a bridge between advanced and developing nations.

Toward a Future Beyond Employment proposes that as poor nations move to the emerging stage and as emerging economies become advanced, advanced economies are transitioning to a stage of their own, to a type of post-employment economy where society works less, consumes less, but instead has more time.

The question of money, how to provide it, and how to acquire it where needed is axiomatic to development.