Development economics and emerging economies

National development banks (NDBs) have transformed from outdated relics of national industrial policy to central pillars of the European Union's economic project.

This book offers important new insights into recent advances and perspectives in the field of political economy of development in Southeastern European countries.

Agriculturalists have been benefiting from the range of products and services that trees can supply for thousands of years.

This book investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes.

This book analyses the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment from the major Asian economies to the EU, focusing on China and Japan's FDIs in the EU, and Poland in particular.

The rise of new powers such as China and India is sending shockwaves through the global multilateral system.

Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development aims to identify, diagnose and evaluate various approaches towards regional and local socio-economic development.

Adopting AI in accounting, auditing and internal control comes with challenges that need to be addressed for successful implementation.

Edith Penrose is best known for The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, originally published in 1959, but she made major contributions in other fields, including patents, the oil industry, and development economics.

Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities.

This is the first major historical study of Tanzania''s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75.

This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments.

Despite significant financial investments, the rate of development and pace of poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries has not always matched expectations.

This book critically examines the evolution of marketing scholarship over generations from Marketing 1.

This collection brings together a collection of theoretical and empirical findings on aspects of financial development and economic growth in developing countries.

The term 'Middle-Income Trap' refers to countries which stagnate economically after reaching a certain level of per capita income on the basis of labour- and capital-intensive growth, and are struggling to transition towards more skill-intensive and technology-driven development.

Frontier Boosters is a compelling social history of urbanization and economic development in the nineteenth-century American West.

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.

This book explores the vital role of merchants within early modern China.

With headlines focused on human suffering-civil wars, refugee flows, the spread of disease due to hunger and poor sanitation, population growth, climate change-it is easy to dive into despair.

This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.

First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa's most closely watched economies.

Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological AssociationReceived Honorable Mention for the 2019 Asia/Transnational Book Award, American Sociological AssociationSince the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession.

Soldiers and Oil (1978) examines Nigeria under military rule from 1966 to 1978, a period of political change as well as economic - the period also saw a twenty-fold increase in Nigerian oil revenues.

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid.

India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty.

This book gives a panoramic review of China's 70 years of modernization, reveals the historical process and logic of the formation of the modernization path with Chinese characteristics, especially focuses on the key decision-making process in the history of China's modernization, theoretically compares the Chinese model and the western mainstream model and summarizes the characteristics and experience of China's development model.

In recent years, participatory inquiry with local communities has led to a series of innovative approaches, methods, practices, procedures,0 tools, techniques and ways.

How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditionsContrary to conventional wisdom, countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions for development, such as good infrastructure and institutions.

Is it really true that the trade agreements pursued in the World Trade Organisation and through regional negotiations are vital for eliminating world poverty and achieving a sustainable future?

First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography , critically assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and showing the relationship between intellectual developments and changing material conditions.

Explains the policies and decisions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the context of changes in the global economy.

This book analyzes the ways in which the Venezuelan immigrant community is making an impact on the social and economic dynamic of small economies.

This book critically reviews the most significant works that examine the sources of economic growth.

Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal is an accessible contemporary political economic analysis of social change in Nepal.

Given the potential size of some of the markets involved and the comparative advantages in serving them, it is surprising to see a relative sparsity of airline activity in developing countries.

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Originally published in 1994 this volume investigates the relationship between a firm's decision to integrate vertically and its research and development (R & D) strategy.

This volume presents current developments in the fields of banking and finance from an international perspective.

South Asia has become a major center of attention on the world stage with the U.

This publication sheds light on how Japan-based German firms dealt with the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in March 2011.

Social Security in the United States and in Europe is at a critical juncture.

This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development.