Development economics and emerging economies

This collection of papers arises from two major international conferences on inward investment and regional development, and the role of accumulated capital in regional business development.

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy as represented by the Washington Consensus.

This book compares the social processes that explain Japanese development, beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, with similar processes in post-independent Nigeria in its effort to achieve capitalist development.

The process of capability development is central to industrialization, but the current literature focuses on the advanced developing countries.

In 1990 Zimbabwe embarked on economic liberalisation.

What accounts for the varying long term growth patterns across developing countries?

This volume explores the interactions between economic and political reform in developing countries and eastern Europe.

Locates the inefficiencies of the traditional public enterprise model within its management and contextual factors.

Combining enterprise surveys in Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Malaysia and Singapore with national and international data including those from China and major machinery exporting countries, this book establishes the international pattern of diffusion of microelectronic industrial technologies.

A study of ethico-economic theorizing on socio-economic development, this book examines critically the views currently held by theoreticians' comprehensive concept of the world view in development theory, then reconsiders various global issues, both in theoretical and applied perspectives.

A distinguished group of international and development economists surveys the major issues in international development finance and trade.

Examines the borderline between traditional economic theory and the particular problems of developing countries.

This study looks at the economic changes accompanying the 1974 social revolution in Ethiopia.

In the aftermath of the debt crisis, disappointment with the results of structural adjustment policies is leading to a reappraisal of theories of economic development and industrialization strategies.

Comprising both extremely rich and very poor countries the Arab region is of unique variety.

Identifies the main considerations in the policy formation process, isolates cross-national commonalities and differences, and discusses the potential for cross-national local economic development policy transfer.

The book examines the operation of International Monetary Fund and World Bank conditionality in six developing countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and Tanzania) and examines its effects on their economies.

In 1935, a bridge was opened across the Zambesi delta in Portuguese East Africa.

An analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa's debt negotiations in the 1980s.

The global Islamic resurgence of the last two decades has spawned parallel intellectual efforts to articulate an alternative Islamic way of life.

For the outside world to understand modern Chinese movements is an extremely difficult, if not insurmountable task.

Contains contributions from 13 experts in development economics.

A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner.

Questions regarding the economic consequences of various forms of regime have puzzled development researchers for many years.

Turkey stands at a crossroad after a decade of adjustment to its severe debt crisis in the late 1970s.

An assessment of the impact of the post-Mao market-orientated reforms in China on the Chinese state and its relations with economy and society.

By the author of "e;Voting Behaviour in an Indian Village"e; and "e;Reaching Out to the Poor"e;, this book deals with development studies.

One in a series on global political economy, aiming to provide overviews and case studies of states and sectors in the international division of labour.

This book explores why, a decade after Zimbabwean independence, government agricultural development policies still retains surprising similarities with those of the colonial period despite lengthy peasant opposition.

This volume identifies and analyses the crucial issues in the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on less developed countries (LDCs).

This volume focuses on the issues and debates surrounding the agricultural export economy of Central America.

More and more Third World countries are providing development assistance to other developing countries.

This book deals with an agricultural production and marketing system known as contract farming (CF).

The volume provides a range of case studies and both complements and advances core texts on economic development.

Aims to improve our understanding of the factors determining the economic performance of the Pacific area developing countries.

This book makes a survey of the methodologies used in previous quantitative analysis of intersectoral resource flows (IRF).

The World Bank and the IMF dominate policy-making in Africa today.

Since 1964, Brazilian policy makers have actively promoted financial market growth.

Defines uneven development in China and India in terms of development strategies and their outcomes.

The books in this series aim to reflect the enormous economic and political changes that small and medium-sized nations in East and South-East Asia have been undergoing in the 1970s and 1980s and to show the impact of these changes on the world economy.

Focusing on trade in manufactures, industrial restructuring and economic development and enforced by a rich source of data, this book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution and characteristics of Hong Kong's postwar economy.

Banks are an integral element of the Third World debt problems but their activities have received little direct analysis.

A collection of interdisciplinary essays which attempt to analyze cultural, economic, political and social diversities and resources from alternative regional and international viewpoints.

Despite the policy change the Asian Development Bank's rural sector projects have continued to focus on increasing production, with little impact on unemployment or poverty.

Part of a series designed to give a comprehensive analysis of some of the complex problems facing contemporary Latin America.

An attempt to assist policy-makers in developing countries to cope with the challenges they face during the rest of the century and beyond.