Development economics and emerging economies

This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world.

The conventional wisdom that political and economic actors in colonial countries are passive and reactive is undermined by Goldberg's close examination of the decisions and calculations of leading political and economic actors.

This is the first biography of a world-famous pioneering development economist, Sir Hans W.

Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises.

Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how economic decline, income inequality, pervasive rent seeking by ruling elites, political authoritarianism, military centrality and competition for mineral exports contribute to war and humanitarian emergencies.

The transformation, which is unfolding in emerging European countries is a unique historic event.

The stated aim of much development assistance is the reduction of poverty.

Within a decade, private capital surpassed aid as the primary capital source for developing countries.

The theme of this book is that economic growth is key, but institutions and other national and subnational attributes matter as well.

African countries have experienced modest economic recovery during the 1990s.

The reader will find here analyses of a wide range of past and current policy experiences and reform efforts in Korea.

Korea, one of the original 'Tiger Economies', experiences a traumatic and largely unanticipated economic crisis in 1997-98 from which the country is still recovering.

Globalization and the growing integration of national markets have had profound effects on the operation of markets, not least labour markets.

The nature of the connection between economic action and structure and ethnic identities receives here a long overdue and incisive re-examination.

Latin America has a pivotal role to play in international trade negotiations.

James Busumtwi-Sam and Laurent Dobuzinskis have assembled a leading team of experts in the field to examine how phenomena associated with globalization impact on political economy in theory and in practice.

Being in the business of generation and dissemination of knowledge, R&D organizations have to attain a balance between revenue generation and creation of knowledge advantage for clients.

John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed.

This book focuses on changes in environmental and economic policies in six developing countries.

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.

Luis Carlos Jemio analyses the macroeconomic events that took place in Bolivia between 1970 and 1995.

The flow of goods, capital technology and organisational know-how between Japan and China has increased dramatically, yet the relationship between the two countries remains far below its potential scope.

Judith A.

Brands no longer exist solely in the realm of the physical.

Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy.

At the beginning of the transition process, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the task of creating a functioning financial system where none had existed before.

Globalization means that today, more than ever before, growth in developing countries and the reduction of poverty depend on world trade and a well functioning trading system.

With a growing market currently in excess of $150 billion, outsourcing has become a critical boardroom agenda.

This invaluable collection compares the relatively unsuccessful economic development of Subsaharan Africa with that of the successful Asian economies, especially the Asian 'tigers'.

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease.

From the first vague idea to use Konrad Hagedorn's 60th birthday as an inspi- tion for taking stock of his vibrant academic contributions, this joint book project has been a great pleasure for us in many ways.

Abstract This chapter defines food security as the condition reached when a nation's population has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet its dietary needs and food preferences.

This two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, published by Springer, along with Springer's book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major publication venture toward a comprehensive coverage of this timely topic.

Over the last 60 years, we have recognized increasingly that our world is connected, and the impacts of environmental catastrophes and economic crises in one region of our world have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences globally.

As urbanization progresses at a remarkable pace, policy makers and analysts come to understand and agree on key features that will make this process more efficient and inclusive, leading to gains in the welfare of citizens.

The Ethics of Agricultural Intensification: An Interdisciplinary and International Conversation Paul B.

Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s.

"e;Quantitative Eco-nomics"e; cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics.

This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century, with its successes as well as its fads and failures.

Since 1998, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality (LNV) promotes development-orientated agricultural and environmental research and strengthening of North-South partnerships through its International Cooperation (DLO-IC) research programme.

Global governance is a concern of not only global organisations but also of all individual states and of regional co-operation agreements among sovereign states.

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive.

At the beginning of the 21st Millennium, outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists make a timely assessment as to the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading?

The past 25 years have witnessed an increasing worldwide concern over the issue of climate change and the specter of immense environmental and economic damage which would accompany unmitigated global warming trends.

This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators.

'A system is just like truth's tail, but the truth is like a lizard.

Is 'development' passe?

This book is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research.

Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the religion of the modern world.