Development economics and emerging economies

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With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, the question of how to finance, implement and monitor these goals moves to the centre of the debate.

Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results.

The year 2120 may appear a long way into the future but will come quickly.

Reconciling regionalism and multilateralism is a challenge common to all branches of global economic governance.

Global financial markets might seem as if they increasingly resemble each other, but a lot of peculiar aspects qualify different markets with different levels of development.

This book researches banking structure in developing Japan and gives insight into how Japan's banks have become embroiled in recent financial crisis.

Access to justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under a wide body of international, regional and domestic law.

This title was first published in 2003.

Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.

News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy towards development aid.

This book explains and evaluates today's economic, political, social and ecological crises through the lens of rentier capitalism and countermovements in Central Asia.

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This book explores how law and policy makers within the Southern African Development Community regional structure might reform the legal and regulatory frameworks to best capitalise the benefits of the movement of people, drawing lessons from other experienced jurisdictions by critically engaging with the regulatory efforts and approaches in regions such as the European Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the East African Community to propose a revised approach to migration governance and practice in the SADC.

This book examines the successful private, public and civil society models of agriculture value chains in India and addresses relevant challenges and opportunities to improve their efficiency and inclusiveness.

This book analyses the transition of South Asian nations from agrarian to industrialized economies, which is accompanied by a widening gap between agricultural and non-agricultural growth rates and a greater income disparity between farmers and urban residents.

BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (known as bloc), have been working closely together for more than a decade in areas as politics, economics, culture and security.

E-Government in Asia offers a thorough examination of e-governance in Asia, including the uses of the Internet to mediate interactions between Asian governments and their citizens.

Countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka have economies that are categorised as capital deficit, whereas economies with abundant capital - such as those in Western Europe and North America - have lost little value in comparison during the global pandemic and other economic periods of this downturn.

Hidden champions are highly successful small and medium-sized companies that are global leaders in terms of market share in their respective niches.

The impact of the oil and gas industry - paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development - is a question at the heart of the comparative studies in this volume stretching from Northern Europe to the Caucasus, the Gulf of Guinea to Latin America.

Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty and the poor, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and abolition.

This book makes a survey of the methodologies used in previous quantitative analysis of intersectoral resource flows (IRF).

Economists have long recognized the gains from international trade.

This book focuses on the issue of financial exclusion with particular reference to the urban informal sector in India.

Volume 41 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores a wide range of topics of interest to economic anthropology.

The book provides an institutional, historical, and sectorial analysis of Argentina's structural corruption.

This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis.

Given that there is no shortage of economic theories while economic problems are growing periodically, Conceptual Economics boldly attempts to initiate a new approach by employing conceptual and intuitive tools to examine the intra-relationship between microeconomics and macroeconomics as well as the inter-relationship between economic analysis and other social science studies, especially the relationship with political science.

The first systematic and comprehensive analysis of innovation in Africa based on mixed methods and dedicated firm-level, multi-country, multi-year survey data.

This book moves beyond technical studies of pension systems by addressing the political economy of pension reform in different contexts.

This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

In a deeply iniquitous world, where the gains from trade are distributed unevenly and where trade rules often militate against progressive social values, human health, and sustainable development, NGOs are widely touted as our best hope for redressing these conditions.

This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s.

This book compares the economic outcomes of Poland and Ukraine by focusing on political and economic institutions.

A staple of postwar academic writing, "e;nationalism"e; is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction.

Is 'development' passe?

China's borderland economy has grown significantly recently, thanks largely to a favorable institutional environment created by national strategies such as the development of the western part of China, revitalization of old industrial bases in the northeast, and the anti-poverty campaign.

For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire.

This book explains why the World Bank has not achieved substantive efficiency or effectiveness in delivering economic assistance.

This book provides insight into the economic partnerships between African governments and China offered by the Belt and Road Initiative.

This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades.

This book provides readers with a basic understanding of sustainable finance and impact investing including history, definitions of impact, current trends and drivers, future challenges, and an overview of the key players in the global impact ecosystem.

An authoritative study of the Malaysian economy and labour market.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced by the United Nations (UN) for all member nations with a total of 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved between 2016 and 2030.

Edited by Francois Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.