Development economics and emerging economies

Recent debt crises and consequent dislocations and distress in the underdeveloped world have shown that the development strategies of the last forty years were misconceived.

In third-world countries an increasing number of people have been drawn into the process of industrialization as wage workers.

The most pressing problem for most developing countries is how to reverse the adverse trends of the 1980s and create the conditions for sustainable development.

This rigorously written book on the areas of Islamic principle theory and application is expected to break new ground in modern economic analysis, both for the Islamically inclined and others.

This book attempts to understand economic developments in Malaysia in the early and mid-Eighties, focusing on growth, balance of payments, fiscal and debt trends.

Providing overviews of states and sectors, classes and companies in the new international division of labour, this series treats polity-economy dialectics at global, regional and national levels.

This book is about the poor and the constraints of social and economic relationships within which they are trapped.

This is a report about developing country participation both in the current Uruguay round and beyond, arguing that over the post war years a climate of mistrust has evolved between developed and developing countries over trade issues.

The papers presented here were first given at the International Conference of Economists at the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia.

Corruption, for most of us, almost immediately evokes images of the third world especially countries like Nigeria, Mexico and India.

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state investment in the Third World.

The objective of this book is to present the problems and possibilities of transferring technology from the developed countries to the developing countries to raise their standard of living.

This volume of papers from the Eighth World Congress deals with changes in proportions and growth rates of sectors of the economy in relation to economic development.

A guide to China since the death of Mao Zedong, explaining and assessing the political conficts and developments of the post-Mao era and the dramatic economic transformations launched by the new leadership.

Having provided theoretical models of such items as capacity, network, scheduling, costs, organisation, environment and forecasting, the author uses these models to compare and evaluate the city transport problems in London, Paris, Copenhagen and Los Angeles, as well as in Cairo, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro.

The starting point of Paul Streeten's book is the dilemma, faced by policy makers in many developing countries: should the price of food be high, in order to stimulate production, or low, in order to prevent poor food buyers from starving?

Written in a style that makes it accessible to everyone interested in development studies, not just to economists, the focus of this collection of essays is on hunger, poverty and inequality.

The book analyses and evaluates the development role and impact of the state in East Asia, in both capitalist (South Korea and Taiwan) and socialist (China) contexts.

This collection of papers by some of the world's leading development economists is remarkable for its wide scope.

In this book the author investigates the relationship between the international monetary system and the less developed countries of the world.

Economic development continues to be an area of interest to students on a variety of courses.

A guide to the experiences of economic reform since the second World War, and system reform and economic integration across the world in the past decade.

An authoritative assessment of the debate over the role of volatile private capital flows and their impact on developing countries.

This book brings together academics in the fields of economics, political science, and law, with business practitioners in the fields of risk assessment and portfolio management.

Uganda in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of Africa's more tragic economic stories.

This book presents a method to estimate the economic returns to investments in school quality.

In contrast to the bulk of the literature on foreign aid, which deals with it as an instrument of foreign policy or focuses on problems of implementation, this book examines the role of the aid agencies themselves, from a recipient's perspective, and provides longitudinal as well as comparative analysis.

Many African countries liberalized in the belief that international competition would stimulate efficiency, growth and technological dynamism.

The recent economic liberalization in developing countries is making many sectors succumb to new competitive pressures.

The first book in the Studies in Economic Transition series applies the theory of economic development to the economy of East Germany.

Liberalization - economic policy reforms to render economies more market-orientated - is a central issue in most countries of the world.

This authoritative collection brings together contributions from well-known international scholars which demonstrate how management education as practised in the U.