Development economics and emerging economies

In the past, the science of ecology has frequently been excluded from the development agenda for various reasons.

Concerns about energy security, uncertainty about oil prices, declining oil reserves, and global climate change are fueling a shift towards bioenergy as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels.

Kenya is a country of geopolitical and economic importance in East Africa.

Kenya is a country of geopolitical and economic importance in East Africa.

This book examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII.

This book examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII.

This book makes "e;green living,"e; as it relates to teens and young adults, an approachable subject.

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too.

This book investigates the intricacies of resource management performance across various sectors within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

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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.

A game-changing guide for women who want to transform the way they work and create their own success-from an award-winning global diversity expert.

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world's population started to experience extraordinary economic growth leading to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world.

This completely revised fourth edition of Fundamentals of Sustainable Development provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to sustainable development for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the natural and social sciences, and beyond.

A comparative look at the astonishing economic rise of modern China and IndiaThe recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention-and justifiably so.

Economic Development of Communist China: An Appraisal of the First Five Years of Industrialization analyzes the rapid economic transformation in China between 1952 and 1957 under the First Five-Year Plan.

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The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right?

The definitive work on business strategy for sustainability by the most authoritative voice in the conversation.

Shifting gears between the most abstract (invisible) and the most concrete (visible) world, this book contains one unifying theoretical construct and six milestone stories to shed light on China’s pathways towards building a moderately prosperous society since 1949.

The global economy has experienced many challenges in recent times, particularly in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as dwindling demand, supply chain disruptions, declining growth rates, further pandemic waves, and increasing poverty and inequality to name but a few.

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary indigenization topics in the cultural context of sub-Saharan Africa.

Most books on happiness are concerned with answering, in their diverse ways, a basic question: how should I live?

How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption.

The definitive reference on the most current economics of development and institutionsThe essential role that institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognized across the social sciences, including in economics.

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe?

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of economic crimes and market irregularities, including matters of trickery, illicit trade, parallel economy, economies of violence and criminalisation of the poor in neoliberal Africa.

The wave of neoliberal economic reforms in the developing world since the 1980s has been regarded as the result of both severe economic crises and policy pressures from global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in AfricaIn the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives.

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainabilityNever before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly.

One of the world's most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of The End of Poverty and Common Wealth, Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential reading for everyone.

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An Evidence-Based Approach to Personality and LeadershipA leader s bullying and constant dismissal of his team s concerns nearly take down an entire company and the global financial system.

Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations.

This volume presents a state-of-the-art debate on the controversial topic of development aid.

This innovative new text from Jeffrey Sachs and Xiokai Yang introduces students to development economics from the perspectives of inframarginal analysis and marginal analysis.

This collection of essays draws from over thirty years of work by noted economist Pranab Bardhan to address the inter-related themes of international trade, growth, and rural development.

Food security is of vital importance to all nations, but particularly so in developing countries.

This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Explaining Growth attempts to compile the most comprehensive assessment of growth in developing and transition countries.

This book analyzes the new trends in capital flows to emerging markets since the Asian crisis, their determinants and policy implications.

Japan and the Internet Revolution challenges the portrait of Japan as a technologically slow-moving nation, lacking in creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.

In this revealing book Timothy Frasca uncovers the enormous cultural changes which have taken place throughout Latin America as a result of the disease.