Development economics and emerging economies

China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly, is having an ever greater impact on the rest of the world.

Richly represented in the Russian folktale tradition, the legends in this work are religious tales in a peasant village setting.

Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations.

Hardie investigates the link between the financialization - defined as the ability to trade risk - and the capacity of emerging market governments to borrow from private markets.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the complexities surrounding supply chain globalization, de-globalization, and the prospective re-globalization.

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.

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

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence.

This book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid-receiving African governments.

In the past ten to twenty years the global political economy picture has dramatically changed with the emergence of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and, notably, China (BRICs) as big players and competitors of the advanced economies in the West and Eastern Asia.

Disasters and Economic Recovery provides perspectives on the economic issues that emerge before, during, and after natural disasters in an international context, by assessing the economic development patterns that emerge before and after disaster.

The Present as History is a rare opportunity to hear world-renowned scholars speak on the new imperialism, feminism and human rights, secularism and Islam, post-colonialism, and the global economy.

The issue of the pros and cons of free trade from the point of view of developing countries refuses to dissipate, and in Latin America, the debate rages most fiercely.

Researchers in international development have long argued that the high costs of doing business harms prosperity in developing countries, a claim that invites the question of why governments impose these costs and why societies fail to enact reforms reducing them.

The discourse on globalization has become polarized.

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There is growing evidence that overcoming the low-income threshold and reaching middle-income status is not sufficient for countries to converge toward high-income levels.

This book examines China's response to the Asian financial crisis of 1997, both in its immediate aftermath and in the years since.

This book examines the challenges faced by emerging market multinationals as they develop their international operations and proposes actionable solutions.

Syed Mansoob Murshed has been at the forefront of research in the rational choice approach to conflict.

This book focuses on the economic dimensions of peace processes and examines the opportunities and constraints for assisting negotiated exits out of conflict.

Contemporary discussions of Africa's recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation, based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data.

This book critically addresses the model of social inclusion that prevailed in Brazil under the rule of the Workers Party from the early 2000s until 2015.

In this volume, leading economists assess India''s economic performance, policies and institutions.

In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Community activation; Awakening integral consciousness; and institutionalized Research.

This book outlines and analyzes the economic development of China between 1949 and 2007.

Government interference in free enterprise is growing.

China's urban population growth rate has doubled in the past 20 years and the Chinese government has made further urbanization a developmental priority.

New Perspectives on Structural Change is a comprehensive edited volume that outlines both the historical roots and state-of-the-art debates on the role of structural change in the process of economic development, including both orthodox and heterodox perspectives and contributions from prominent scholars in this field.

How can we manage a so-called "e;renewable"e; natural resource such as a fishery when we don't know how renewable it really is?

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind.

This book brings together new studies on regional disparities in the provision and maintenance of health in Asia.

In the past decades, social enterprise has been an emerging field of research.

This second edition brings together the views of expert academics and practitioners on the latest regulatory developments in sustainable finance in Europe and includes 5 new chapters on sustainable remuneration, reporting, lending, green monetary policy and ESG.

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place.

This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

From a renowned group of international scholars, this new work examines how leading economic countries use sport business, particularly individual sports events (such as the Olympics or FIFA Men's or Women's World Cup) as well as participant sport, in comprehensive plans toward driving and furthering economic development, raising brand awareness (country as a brand), transforming lagging communities, and enhancing travel and tourism in the country.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making.

This book looks at how patterns of world trade are changing, how EEC protectionism affects developing countries, how special deals and exceptions are bought in some cases and looks to the future to see how the situation may develop.

This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations.

Every city, region and state wants to do better---or at the very least, not do worse.

Political conditionality involves the linking of development aid to certain standards of observance of human rights and (liberal) democracy in recipient countries.

The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work.

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.

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.

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