Development economics and emerging economies

Sustainable development has been recognized as a paradigm for considering a future in which environmental, social, and economic concerns are balanced in the pursuit of improving quality of life.

The African manufacturing sector continues to face many problems as it struggles to progress from its presently underdeveloped state.

Explains why China grew differently in the 1980s than in the 1990s and beyond, and what consequences this has today.

The issue of the pros and cons of free trade from the point of view of developing countries refuses to dissipate, and in Latin America, the debate rages most fiercely.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, Asia is leading the global recovery with strong economic growth.

This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina's modern economic history and the debates that raged there around a problem common to all former colonies: how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.

Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle studies the crippling problems that plague civilian democracies in the region.

This book is a penetrating comparative analysis of the economic development efforts of West African countries.

This book proposes transformative, realist methodology for skills research and planning through an analysis of case studies of the changing world of work, new learning pathways and educational system challenges.

Romania's education system has made impressive strides over the past two decades, with an increasing share of students mastering the basic competencies that they need for life and work.

Prescriptions for Death: The Drugging of the Third World is a compelling expose of the pharmaceutical industry's ethical failings and regulatory loopholes that disproportionately affect developing nations.

This edited book combines academic and managerial insights on achieving business success in Sub-Saharan African markets.

This book explores the new challenges for work and employment relations in the wake of globalization.

This book is an excellent resource for academics and students interested in ethics and accountability in the public sector, as well as for practitioners, NGO workers and policymakers.

This book is concerned with the problem of achieving sustained economic growth in thirteen African countries.

This work examines ideas about the role of law and legal reform in the creation of market economies, focusing on the process of post communist transition in Russia.

The book compares neoclassical and Marxian economics and points out that both the schools of thought seek to analyze how a capitalist society functions.

This book provides comprehensive, systematic, multi-disciplinary guidance to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries of all regions.

The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism.

Poverty is a pressing and persistent problem.

Gibt es Wirtschaftswunderländer?

This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries.

The international flow of long-term private capital has increased dramatically in the 1990s.

First published in 1965, this reissue is a report on the Second Rehovoth Conference of August 1963, convened by the then Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Mr Abba Eban, in order to enable the scientists and political leaders of developing countries to establish meaningful communication on the overall topic of comprehensive planning of agriculture in developing countries.

The Cartesian view of man being the controller of nature has generated an economic system, whether capitalist or Marxist, which exploits nature to produce more and more goods and services to meet the material needs of society.

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning.

This casebook provides students and academics in business management and marketing with a collection of case studies on services marketing and service operations in emerging economies.

This is the first book that provides a comprehensive inter-regional comparison of Asian and European multinationals from large (China and Russia) and medium-sized (Taiwan) emerging markets.

An exciting account of how government statistics in developing countries are social artefacts dynamically shaped by political and economic contexts.

This book offers an authoritative study on special economic zones in China.

This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in developing economies.

Americans tend to believe that their country is very different from Europe.

This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations.

This book captures the critical role of taxation in shaping government responsiveness and accountability in developing countries.

This one-of-a-kind book fills a gap in the literature by providing readers with a systematic approach to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) training for programs and projects.

Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies.

The book contributes to the growing literature pertaining to empirical and policy issues in international trade, foreign capital flows and issues in finance, implications for India and emerging economies related to trade and development interface, and analysis of sector level growth and development in India.