Development economics and emerging economies

First published in 1984, this textbook analyses, at both aggregate and micro economic levels, the contemporary industrial conditions in Third World countries and relates this to the process of economic growth and structural transformation.

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.

A bold manifesto by two business leaders, A Billion Bootstraps shows why microcredit is the world's most powerful poverty-fighting movement-and an unbeatable investment for your charitable donations.

This volume aims to explore project management contributions to sustainable business change based on renewability, reuse, and repair as well as the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management in terms of the management approach, governance, and leadership.

A comprehensive, non-technical guide to leveraging website localization strategies for global e-commerce success.

First published in 1953, We Too Can Prosper is the outcome of a unique collaboration between Mr.

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

Between 1950 and 1985, the United States provided an ongoing flow of resources to support Brazilian agriculture.

There is an increasing interest in inclusive wealth, and inclusive wealth can be a solution to the problematic narrowness of the traditional national accounting sys-tem, which has been recognized for a long time.

The Sino-US trade accord signed in November 1999 in Beijing set a milestone for China's protracted journey towards becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a driving force of the global economy, contributing up to 50% of gross domestic product in some instances.

Explains the rising importance of emerging markets to give a better understanding of current development challenges.

The modern-day world faces a hostile climate, depleted resources and the destruction of habitats.

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)?

There is limited access for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to bank credit.

El concepto de civilización surge en el siglo XVIII e incluso aparece como entrada en la Enciclopedia de los ilustrados.

This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain).

This book challenges the established, neoclassical view of industrial success in developing countries.

'This book is a thoroughly researched and well written exploration of one of the most divisive topics in modern democratic discourse.

This volume identifies and analyses the crucial issues in the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on less developed countries (LDCs).

The book aims at performing a detailed and multifaceted study to show the advantage of the adoption of territorial statistics, in particular local ones, at national and international levels to deal with the spatial analysis of locally articulated socio-economic processes.

Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden have, to varying degrees, earned a reputation for being more responsive to Third World needs and aspirations than other developed industrial societies.

Locates the inefficiencies of the traditional public enterprise model within its management and contextual factors.

This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification.

This book empirically analyzes the vulnerability of poor households in rural areas of Mexico and the effects of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called PROGRESA-Oportunidades by adopting the two most recent sets of rural household panel data for 2003-2007.

With the harmonization of the EU economies, and issues of EU enlargement and integration with Europe's transition economies topping the political agenda, the economic geography of Europe is being recast.

Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor.

This book, first published in 1992, examines the subject of foreign exchange market efficiency and, in particular, the effectiveness of central bank intervention in the market.

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

In letzter Zeit hat die Öffentlichkeit Bedenken hinsichtlich der Auswirkungen multinationaler Unternehmen aus Schwellenländern geäußert.

Recent years have seen a globalization of property rights as the Western conception of property over land has extended across the world.

The objective of "e;Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies"e; is to raise the level of interest in the specific problems of accounting in emerging economies; and increase awareness of real issues, so that accounting in these countries will not just be seen as a matter of copying what is done in the industrialized countries.

This book analyses and explains the nature of the economies of small countries and territories.

Africa faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there.

This book discusses the aspects of global competition in terms of the strategies that could be applied to improve the competitive position of businesses and consolidate gains particularly in the Thai market.

In "e;Launching Innovations: A Strategic Guide to MVP Creation and Crowdfunding Mastery,"e; Jordan Michaels delivers a comprehensive roadmap for entrepreneurs eager to bring their visions to life.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure financing from a global perspective.

A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth—including future economic superpowers India and China—have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.

This book explains the macro-drivers of growth behind the economic development of Bangladesh.

The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions.

During the last decade of the 20th century, Africa has been marked by a "e;constitutional wind"e; which has blown across the continent giving impetus to constitutional reforms designed to introduce constitutionalism and good governance.

The 1980s in Latin America saw the implementation of a sweeping programme of economic reforms, either imposed as a condition for securing new loans or to embrace the neoliberal doctrine of structural adjustment, the ideology of a newly formed transnational capitalist class.

This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research.