Development economics and emerging economies

Today, with so much know-how existing on this planet, there are still billions of people in extreme poverty.

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West.

In today's world, globalization bears intense interdependencies between countries, and the impact global business transactions have on society and economics is more palpable than ever.

The rise of globalization has affected the ways in which nations maintain sustainable development and economic prosperity.

The Arab world is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

Despite its often mismanaged economy, Africa remains the third largest continent in land mass and population.

The predicted "e;ICT revolution"e; has gained increasing attention in the oil industry the last few years.

Green technology plays an important role in the achievement of environmental sustainability.

One way to reduce the greenhouse gas from IT is green computing, which is the practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems for reducing the use of hazardous materials, maximizing energy efficiency, and promoting the recyclability or biodegradability of products.

At the Crack of Dawn is a story about teamwork.

This book is a critical excavation of capitalist development that is being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era, with a related focus on the anticolonial and anticapitalist resistance by Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and migrant workers in Africa, Asia/Middle East, and the Americas/Caribbean.

This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts?

This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts?

Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria; "e;clicktivists"e; create social media storms over company missteps.

The author has created an interpretive document detailing the contributions of North East Pennsylvania to the greatness of the United States of America resulting in an economic, financial, and political revitalization of the U.

Incorporating political, economic, and environmental factors, this book explores the evolution of health and living standards in Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change.

In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current housing policies and programmes in India.

Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today.

Cooperation in Research and Development provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of a distinct form of inter-firm collaboration in Research & Development (R&D): research joint ventures (RJVs).

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is one avenue for offering assistance to developing countries in their efforts to grow.

Macroeconomic Policy in the Canadian Economy investigates developments in Canada over the last forty years, using recent advances in the field of applied econometrics.

Since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, increasing attention has been paid to the problems of economic development and reconstruction in South-East Europe.

In Enterprise and Inclusion in Italy, Edmund Phelps weaves together and applies to Italy his two principal interests of the past decade -the imperative of restoring initiative, enterprise and dynamism in a great many industrialized economies, most acutely needed in the eastern European economies amid the wreckage of their experiments with market socialism and communism, and the imperative of extending self-support and involvement in the business sector to the large number of marginalized workers, where his focus was on the high rates of dependency, idleness and crime among less educated in the United States.

This book provides a critical commentary on China's situation and future outlook from the perspective of the 2012-13 generational power transfer.

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.

This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand.

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This book is the one of the first to address aid effectiveness as a political and comparative economics question.

Could regional integration be a first step toward joining the global market?

Economic integration is one of the most noteworthy issues in international economic policy at the end of the twentieth century.

The wave of protests and populist uprisings in the Middle East has heightened the focus on a volatile region.

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Sustainability applies to everybody.

The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of competitiveness and sustainable growth.

Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today.