Development economics and emerging economies

Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth.

African Affairs is the top journal in African Studies and has been for some time.

African Affairs is the top journal in African Studies and has been for some time.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

What makes countries rich?

People around the world are confused and concerned.

People around the world are confused and concerned.

Despite the abundant literature about development policies and solutions, many developing countries continue to struggle with basic development issues.

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This short primer distils Ruchir Sharma's decades of global analytic experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash.

How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problemsThere has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change and decaying infrastructure.

In the Cold War, development was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth.

This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014.

A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy.

'The Commission for Africa finds the conditions of the lives of the majority of Africans to be intolerable and an affront to the dignity of all mankind.

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide.

Discover the bold secrets to Israel's incredible track record of success in this new guide that will help make any startup unstoppable.

Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with marginal variations.

The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern.

A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City.

Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globallyCorruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it.

Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers ?

Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water.

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.

A comprehensive guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs in developing countriesThis book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs.

Here, for the first time, two of Russia's leading economists provide an authoritative analysis of the transition to a democratic market economy that has taken place in Russia since 1990.

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries.

Taxes are a crucial policy issue, especially in developing countries.

China's economic growth has been more robust in some regions than others.

More than 95% of all consumer product launched in the packaged goods sector fail to achieve their goals for success.

This book examines the underlying conditions that give rise to states that are effective, efficient, and bureaucratically inclusive with their developmental policies.

Defining an organization by its growth strategy enables business leaders to make better decisions about the ways their companies compete.

From Nobel Prizewinning economist Joel Mokyr, a revealing look at why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.

Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies.

How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent?

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent.

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

"e;[Hewitt] paints an engaging portrait of a community learning how to take care of its own, and offers inspiration for others looking to do the same.

Fully grasp the core principles of logistics, distribution management and the supply chain, in addition to emerging trends and the latest technologies, with this definitive guide that offers clear and straightforward explanations.

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: "e;A hugely thoughtful and innovative analysis of the phenomenon known as 'India Inc.

The construction industry in developing economies is responsible for creating deliverables such as infrastructure and housing while providing a means of livelihood to an ever-increasing number of management and frontline workers.

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

Originally published in 1987, this book discusses the problem of rural employment in developing countries.

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.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

A social activist and an entrepreneur remake the future of investing and business, offering a win-win road map for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.