Development economics and emerging economies

Venezuela's Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding of OPEC.

This work presents case-studies of the emergence and evolution of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) based in eleven developed and developing countries of widely divergent patterns of national development.

Indigenous communities globally struggle to preserve their cultural heritage amidst a modern landscape shaped by technological advancement and free market capitalism.

Although being huge by any measure, Chinese Railways are a bottleneck for economic growth in China.

This edited collection presents seventeen case studies focused on development banking in Africa at both the national and regional level.

Does market liberalization promote democracy?

This book is a collection of studies on economic development and growth in selected African countries.

Since 1960, Canadian industry has lagged behind other advanced capitalist economies in its level of commitment to research and development.

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.

When Mexico's peso crisis occurred in December 1994, all of Latin America experienced the 'tequila effect'.

This book offers essential insights into potential catastrophic events that might befall upon the emerging urban landscape in South Asia, and which are due to hazards, risks and vulnerabilities inherent in the region's geophysical location, as well as due to climate change and unplanned urbanization.

This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region.

Following the reforms undertaken in the last two decades, India's economic landscape has been radically transformed.

Beyond Gandhian Economics is an attempt to establish that Gandhian Economics is not neoclassical in essence and that it goes beyond the defined domain of economics in analyzing social, political and ethical implications of economic actions or policies.

The book compares neoclassical and Marxian economics and points out that both the schools of thought seek to analyze how a capitalist society functions.

Der Autor untersucht Aspekte der interkulturellen Kommunikation als Schlüssel zur Generierung internationaler Märkte, indem er mit einer Perspektive auf Management,Personalentwicklung und Marketing die kulturellen Faktoren erschließt und systematisch in ökonomisches Handeln überführt.

This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century, with its successes as well as its fads and failures.

Originally published in 1978 Urbanization and Labour Markets is a useful companion for those studying in geography, economics or development studies.

This book provides a valuable compendium of annual indices and rankings of cost of living for expatriates and cost of living, wages and purchasing power for ordinary residents in 105 world's major cities over the period 2005-2015.

Published for the Private Planning Association of Canada as part of the Canada in the Atlantic Economy series, this book covers impact of trade liberalization on Canadian agriculture, prospects for trade liberalization in agriculture, as well as trade liberalization and the Canadian pulp and paper industry and trade liberalization and the Canadian furniture industry.

This book examines three fundamental factors that influence the economic growth and development of the world's 93 smallest economies, which together produced 1% of global GDP.

Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets as well as for their residents to borrow and invest in international financial markets.

The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.

India's economic resurgence has been the subject of many extravagant predictions and hopes.

This book, the first of two volumes, brings together the work of Domenico Mario Nuti to highlight his significant and varied contribution to economics.

Iran is an ancient country, an oil-exporting economy and an Islamic Republic.

Drawing together recent changes in the debates with the history of the subject, The Process of Economic Development is a textbook with a story to tell.

It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change.

The main theme is how local economic cultures and economic networks in the South and in Eastern Europe are put under strain by global deregulation and how traditional and not so traditional but locally rooted structures of economic life adjust to deregulation or fail to do so.

This book, from a top international group of scholars, explores the ways in which economic tools can be used to improve the quality of regulation in general and legislative tools in particular.

Located within the plantation economy model of the "e;New World Group"e; of The University of the West Indies, this book explores how the changes in the European Union's sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica.

This innovative new text from Jeffrey Sachs and Xiokai Yang introduces students to development economics from the perspectives of inframarginal analysis and marginal analysis.

Enterprise can revolutionise economic development in Africa.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of child well-being within the context of Indian states, focusing on the progress made in eight Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets.

This book addresses key issues in corporate finance and explores them from financial development and financial stability perspectives in emerging markets.

Most countries in the world today have entered an advanced phase of globalization with the objective of increasing growth of output and employment.

This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015.

Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty.

Transforming the Socio Economy with Digital Innovation explores the impacts of digital innovation on socioeconomic phenomena, resilience and governance.

The World Bank considers financial inclusion to be an enabler for at least 7 of the 17 United Nation's sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries?

This book addresses key issues in development economics, from macroeconomics, finance and governance to trade, industry, agriculture and poverty.

Live music events are synonymous with fun but seldom associated with international trade.

First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.

Water has become increasingly central to addressing multiple development and environmental objectives in the course of climate change.

This book examines qualitatively and quantitatively the exploitation of Africa through six centuries of colonialism and imperialism.