Development economics and emerging economies

Entrepreneurial ecosystems involve a complex synergy of factors, including social and structural changes that are frequently cumulative within territories, promoting the improvement of citizens' quality of life and higher development levels.

This book explores the workplace experiences, opportunities, and challenges that emerge from the nuances of diversity and inclusion dynamics in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

This book focuses on the gradual reform of Chinese society since China's opening up to the world, and gives a unified explanation of the process based on bargaining theory.

This book aims to interpret to global readers the system, model and path that China has adopted for its development.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the links between migration and remittances.

The charter of the World Trade Organization (WTO) sets the tone that sustainable trade and economic development dominates multilateral trade negotiation and specific working agreements.

Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years.

In this unusually candid book, Japan's former top financial diplomat asserts the urgent need for wholesale structural reform to revitalize the long-stagnant Japanese economy.

For several decades, fast-growing East Asia has been the envy of the developing world.

In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity.

In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession.

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced forms of cultural districts for local socio-economic development.

This volume focuses on the role of the private sector in diversifying the economics of Gulf countries in the post-petrodollar era, when fluctuating and declining oil prices are negatively impacting national expenditures.

What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on.

This book provides a comprehensive overview and some economic analysis of China's economic reform experiences, particularly those since the late 1980s.

Many rural areas in the United States find themselves struggling to build local assets and create wealth, and, when this wealth is created, they often struggle to hold on it.

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains.

Two prominent features of the current global economy are the world-wide recession brought about by the recent financial crisis, and the emergence of major economic powers from within the developing world such as Brazil, China and India.

The impact of increased levels of international trade on domestic labour markets is a key issue for policy makers in both developed and less developed countries.

The 'migration-development' nexus has emerged as an important area of both research and policy over the last ten years.

Transnational corporations are one of the most important actors in the global economy, occupying a more powerful position than ever before.

The United Nations has increased its worldwide efforts to promote sustainable development.

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man.

It is imperative to equip practitioners with a workable framework to manage component-based development in distributed environments, and to offer a theoretical construct to academics wishing to advance the study of global teams.

This edited volume delves into Sierra Leone's complex post-conflict landscape.

One person in five across the globe still lives on less than $1 a day despite the economic boom or rapid growth in many parts of the world.

By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings.

In 1950 the world population was 2.

This book delves into the lives of women in Malaysia, portraying their experiences as they navigate life's challenges and make sacrifices for survival.

This book provides a timely update on the ongoing transformation of the Chinese economy.

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa.

An easy-to-use guide for local leaders working to engage their community in growing a more equitable, healthy, and sustainable future Building Community is the easy-to-use guide that distills the success of healthy thriving communities from around the world into twelve universally applicable principles that transcend cultures and locations.

This book examines Gunnar Myrdal's analysis of poverty in relation to Sweden, the United States, South Asia, and the international economy.

This book investigates the important role of local actors in Sierra Leone in helping to foster peace and provide for the needs of vulnerable populations following the end of the civil war.

This book provides an overview of the monetary and financial systems seen in Africa.

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay.

Paul Collier's contributions to development economics,and in regard to Africa in particular, have marked him out as one of the most influential commentators of recent times.

Goebel examines the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, including state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies.

Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture.

Will history repeat itself, leaving Saudi Arabia to face another financial crisis due to drastic overspending and/or a dramatic drop in oil revenue?

Frontier Boosters is a compelling social history of urbanization and economic development in the nineteenth-century American West.

First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on agricultural productivity and innovations that took place in the wake of the Green Revolution in North India, using a simultaneous equations model.