Development economics and emerging economies

Agricultural Waste Diversity and Sustainability Issues: Sub Saharan Africa as Case Study presents solutions for overcoming limitations, guiding developmental processes, and improving knowledge transfer in agricultural waste management and development.

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

Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of India's social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and explores both resilience and vulnerabilities in Indian society.

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Agewhen there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteenand explores what it could mean for our collective future.

Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs.

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy.

Places Sudan's oil industry (examined here in macro, micro and political terms), its economy, external relations and changing politics under the impact of the Darfur conflict and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, in the wider context of the expansion of Asia's global economic strength.

Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots.

An increase in the global population has led to a higher demand for food, besides complicating environmental, economic, and social issues.

Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty defined by the $1.

This book examines major policy and planning issues in development studies from the regional science perspective.

Current systems are failing the poor because these systems are unable to provide the financial inclusion needed for basic subsistence and commerce, which in turn would drive micro- and macro-economic growth.

Contemporary Chinese rural life is placed in sharp theoretical and practical focus in this book.

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

This book evaluates Bangladesh's impressive economic and social progress, more often referred to as a 'development surprise'.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

A remarkable cast of characters inhabit the pages of this book.

This book uses institutional data to examine and analyze the current governance structures of Multilateral Financial Institutions (MFIs) with the ultimate goal of reforming MFI governance models to be more responsive to the needs of developing countries.

The world economy has undergone miraculous changes in the last decade, particularly in developing and former communist countries.

The field of development economics has evolved since volume 3 of the Handbook of Development Economics was published more than a decade ago.

Using the experience of postwar Western Europe as a benchmark, Jose Antonio Ocampo and his colleagues assess how regional financial institutions can help developing countries often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.

This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009.

Despite various reform efforts, Mexico has experienced economic stability but little growth.

Emerging market economies (EMEs) have become the darlings of international investors and the focus of enormous attention in academic, media, and policy circles.

The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs financial, psychological, and social have been enormous.

Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options.

This proceedings volume examines the impact of ethics on business and entrepreneurship predominantly from the Romanian perspective.

This book provides an overview of recent advances in Integrated Community-Managed Development (ICMD) as an innovative strategy for the community-based development of local institutions in order to achieve lasting poverty reduction and empowerment.

The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly evolving.

This book explores in detail how African countries dealt with the pandemic and how it affected different aspects of different economies and social structures.

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

This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulation and sustainable development in Bangladesh.

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact.

Although a number of selected African countries have made efforts to implement various financial sector reforms, many countries have not fully implemented the requisite reforms required for sustainable development.

Agricultural growth, bolstered by technological advancements and international trade, enhances economic stability and food security in many developing nations in one hand, and reduces income disparities between developed and less developed nations on the other.

The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy.

The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy.

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

Focusing on these developing problems and growing troubles, this book mainly discusses economic growth issues related to demographic transition, as well as livelihood issues derived from them and closely related to policy logic.

Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt.

This volume presents a collection of cases that examine the status of financial inclusion for women across a variety of states in the African continent.