Development economics and emerging economies

This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks (MDBs).

Economic development is the sustained, concerted actions of policy makers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area.

Financial Integration and Development examines the effects of financial liberalization on development, with particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood.

Why do so few countries achieve development success?

Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development.

In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950.

This book is an investigation into the evolving nature and consequences of strategic management in public governance.

This book, together with Economic Development and Reform Deepening in China is a collection of papers written in recent years about maintaining economic growth, managing inflation, the relationship between growth and structural adjustment, control of price growth, maintaining stable economic development, and other relevant aspects of macro-control, economic development, and deepening reform.

Getting inside the heads of the developing world's dictators, warlords, and corrupt politiciansMeet the economic gangster.

This book provides an analysis of the global economic crisis from an Asian perspective.

A global cast of contributors document the various forms of diaspora engagement - philanthropy, volunteerism, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and virtual diaspora - in South Asia and provide insights on how to tap the development potential of diaspora engagement for countries in South Asia.

In the late 1980s, Japan's strong economic performance put it on a the verge of becoming a major player in regional and global affairs.

Amid the vibrant culture and deep-rooted traditions of India thrive hundreds of Indigenous tribes and ethnic communities.

Taking a conceptual approach, this book studies the economic development of the four East Asian economies since 1950.

Rethinking World Politics is a major intervention into a central debate in international relations: how has globalization transformed world politics?

This book weaves together current understanding around financial literacy and ageing, arguing for the relevance of financial literacy for old age security.

The 2nd edition of An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy explains the key scientific, economic and policy issues related to climate change in a completely up-to-date introduction for anyone interested, and students at all levels in various related courses, including environmental economics, international development, geography, politics and international relations.

This examines the relationship between technological growth and outward direct investment from firms in Asia and Latin America which has become increasingly siginificant as these countries develop.

China's Unfinished Economic Revolution offers a fundamentally different interpretation of China's economic reform.

Students of government and social power recognize that wherever governmental systems embrace popular elections, the functions and mechanisms of political finance constitute inevitable links of influence between economic structures and political processes.

This book is an analysis of the developments associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) five years after Xi Jinping announced both the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st Maritime Silk Road (21MSR).

This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America.

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development.

China is indisputably one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world; however the character, nature and extent of its market economy status remains in question.

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies.

This book provides an innovative theoretical and empirical exploration of the political participation and democratic capability of people living in authoritarian states.

Economic development continues to be an area of interest to students on a variety of courses.

A deepening ecological crisis is rearing its head in sub-Saharan Africa, as it faces a myriad of challenges in regards to the development of its energy sector.

Inequality remains one of the most intensely discussed topics on a global level.

China's rise as an aid provider in Africa has caught global attention, with China's activity being viewed as the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international relations context.

The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world.

Mention North Korea to people today and they will conjure up many unflattering images, particularly in the wake of George W.

Originally published in 1996.

Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa demonstrates how instead of empowering the communities they work with, the jargon of development ownership often actually serves to perpetuate the centrality of multilateral organizations and international donors in African development, awarding a fairly minimal role to local partners.

Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health.

In 2021 Coventry celebrates being the national City of Culture.

Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province.

The term capacity building refers to enabling the indigenous people of developing countries to carry out development processes successfully by empowering them through strengthened domestic institutions, provision of domestic markets, and improvement of local government efforts to sustain infrastructures, social institutions, and commercial institutions.

This book provides a broad overview of the current research on various aspects of development, with a focus on India.

This proceedings volume explores the concept of civil society as an engine for economic and social well-being.