Development economics and emerging economies

The book assesses emerging powers' influence on international economic law and analyses whether their rhetoric of reforming this 'unjust' order translates into concrete reforms.

What do economists know about land-and how they know?

At the outbreak of the global financial crisis, 2008, the G20 was widely acknowledged as helping prevent an even more serious decline in the global economy.

Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management.

Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa.

The aim of this book is to examine the transformation of the geography of China in the years since the start of China's policy of reform and opening-up in 1978, as seen through the eyes of Chinese geographers.

This book provides a general description and evaluation of the process of urbanization in China and the urgent challenges facing the Chinese government.

The Pacific region is in the final stage of the demographic transition with declining fertility and expanding life expectancy, where significant changes in population size and age distribution, i.

Overwhelmed by a proliferation of foreign aid programs, the U.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series.

Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "e;global knowledge-based economy"e; and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and human development in general.

Utilising the contemporary China-Pakistan relationship, economic theory and history, this book evaluates if China can spark Pakistan''s growth.

This edited volume brings together research on symbiotic themes of entrepreneurship, resource planning, and regional development and their impact on global-local business imperatives.

This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation.

This two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, published by Springer, along with Springer's book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major publication venture toward a comprehensive coverage of this timely topic.

The active role of women in the labor force is not limited to recent decades, or even to the last century.

This book presents original research that examines the growth of international investment agreements as a means to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and considers how this affects the ability of capital-importing countries to pursue their development goals.

So what is a member-owned business?

Our post-industrialised global economy has achieved spectacular success and pushed back poverty to an extent previously thought impossible.

Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world.

Is economic growth desirable?

Social protection is an increasingly important part of the social policy dialogue in Africa, and yet because of its relatively new place in a rapidly evolving agenda, evidence on critical design choices such as targeting, and on impacts of social protection interventions, is mostly limited to case studies or small, unrepresentative surveys.

A comprehensive explanation of information institutions as they relate to the success of subnational capital markets Global trends in decentralization and the growing role of world cities have increased the importance of infrastructure development.

This book presents a road map to urban regeneration through the contemporary concept of smart cities.

This thematic collection of 26 case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage in the context of sustainable development.

This book is about promising collaborative avenues for connecting Finland and India with value propositions for enterprises, consumers and investors worldwide.

This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources.

First published in 1997, this volume examines the urban environments of Accra (Ghana), Harare (Zimbabwe) and Gaborone (Botswana).

It is a major problem for less developed countries to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up their manufacturing and service sectors.

What makes countries rich?

Fresh fruit exported from Chile has become commonplace in our supermarkets during the winter months.

Destination branding and marketing form the backbone of tourism industry growth, but it is increasingly important that the strategies employed consider and promote sustainable solutions.

Thailand's dynamic economic development has earned it a reputation as the "e;Fifth Tiger"e; (following on the heels of the superperforming "e;Four Tigers"e; - South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong).

This book investigates the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on development and well-being (beyond economic benefits) and highlights some emerging issues relating to the realities, constraints and digital divides with particular reference to India.

Geography is a discipline with a profound interdisciplinary character focusing on studying the complex interactions between nature and society.

AI, Edge, and IoT Smart Agriculture integrates applications of IoT, edge computing, and data analytics for sustainable agricultural development and introduces Edge of Thing-based data analytics and IoT for predictability of crop, soil, and plant disease occurrence for improved sustainability and increased profitability.

In Islam, philanthropy is a spectrum of activity, and these activities differ in their purpose and in the principles on which they operate.

Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy.

This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy.

This study aims at analyzing the resilience of Indonesia from two aspects: one is was natural disaster and the other is environmental protection.