Development economics and emerging economies

Although China's economy has grown very rapidly in recent decades, there are still very large differences between the economy of mainland China and the economies of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

This revised third edition provides an analysis of Suharto's New Order from its inception to the emergence of B.

With global concerns over rising oil prices, this book examines the major issues facing the economies of the Arab Gulf today, covering all six of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

This brief views the environment through diverse lenses - those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology.

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations.

This book investigates how strategic marketing is influencing organizations' innovation performance.

A flexible labour market is widely regarded as a key factor in encouraging economic growth and prosperity.

What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development?

This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how FinTech, social innovation, and inclusive partnerships can drive sustainable development on a global scale.

This volume brings together selected papers from the 17th EBES Conference, organized in Venice in winter 2015.

There is an increasing interest in emerging markets because of the higher economic growth rates compared to developed economies.

In the twentieth century Japan emerged as one of the world's leading economic powers: rising from wartime destruction to a leading economic engine in world markets.

Our economies currently encourage excessive consumerism, weakening social ties, and depleting natural resources.

This volume provides the most current research on smart cities.

Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest?

This book gives insight on the dynamics and route of economic policies that have been taken and implemented since the point of institutional reforms in 1998 that were triggered from the context of the financial crisis in 1997/1998.

Hans Singer is undoubtedly one of, if not the, world's major scholars in the field of Development Economics.

This book adopts a novel analytical approach to understanding how Russia's stalled democratisation is related to the incomplete liberalisation of the economy.

This book demonstrates that there is sufficient evidence on the Nigerian economy and society to inform many policy issues, and reveals the current problems and policy options that a democratic Nigeria will need to debate and resolve.

This collection of twenty papers, presented at the 2nd International Conference of Bhoovigyan Vikas Foundation, addresses a variety of issues concerning sustainable development and earthcare.

This book examines the important role played by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in driving economic growth in Africa.

The book fills a gap in the existing literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.

The book mainly uses the New Institutional Economics Approach (NIE) to examine the formation and development of industrial clusters in China through multiple case studies of textile and clothing clusters in the Zhejiang province.

With a population of 1 billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countries in the world.

This is the first book that analyzes public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure development in developing countries by focusing on recent developments in the Philippines.

This book presents new perspectives on current development policy against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ragged Trousered NGOs is a compelling first-hand account of the NGO sector and wider civil society over the past 40 years, examining how and why people take collective action and engage in social development projects.

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital.

When crises occur, citizens, media and policymakers alike expect government to respond and to take a leading role in recovery.

This book presents the reflections of a group of researchers interested in assessing whether the law governing the promotion and protection of foreign investment reflects sound public policy.

This book uses the examples of local supply firms in China and Brazil and their connections to the global automotive industry to explore the nature of current global value chains.

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "e;their"e; diasporas.

The world is in a mess - but the United Nations has a plan to fix things.

Juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D with in-depth case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecentres to draw implications for the possible development trajectories induced by the provision of ICTs in rural hinterlands of India.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the most salient aspects of development finance.

This book is about the way 'governance' has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries.

This volume represents the result of almost two decades of trans-Atlantic collaborative development of a policy research paradigm, the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies program.

This book examines the process of information diffusion and the challenges of spreading awareness about maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes in India, with a special focus on Bihar - a state in eastern India.

Originally published in 1988, this book considers some of the major social, economic and environmental questions raised by the role of new technology in development.

The rising importance of China and its impact on the world economy has attracted massive interest worldwide.

Most studies of doing business at the "e;bottom of the economic pyramid"e; focus on viewing the poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies.

After having been a Japanese colony for more than 35 years until 1945, the miraculous economic development in the southern half of the Korean peninsula has multiplied the nation's output nearly 38 times and expanded per capita income by 16 times from $778 to $12,422 (in year 2000 prices) and transformed from basically an agrarian economy to that of a major industrial power, which is now considered one of a dozen or so of most industrialized countries in the world, during the 43-year period between 1953 and 1996.

This book comprehensively investigates the challenges to Myanmar's access to the global market.

Sugarcane Biorefinery, Technology and Perspectives provides the reader with a current view of the global scenario of sugarcane biorefinery, launching a new expectation on this important crop from a chemical, energy and sustainability point-of-view.

This book reviews the current trends and challenges of regional integration and trade in Africa.