Development economics and emerging economies

This book brings together scholars based in, or had previously been based in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries, building on their respective primary empirical data and first-hand experience as academics and think tank researchers, in order to pluralise the current debates about governance in transitional societies.

In a world that is grappling with soaring energy costs, widespread inflation, armed conflicts, and the looming specter of trade wars, world leaders and pundits are actively seeking transformative paradigms to usher in a sense of stability, many of them envisioning a reimagination of capitalism.

Food security is a pressing concern in the Caribbean.

How can we determine if current growth patterns are sustainable, and what changes to we need to make to make them more so?

Oneof a series of studies on vocational education and training, this review focuses on the apprenticeship system in England and concludes with policy recommendations.

This book contributes to the microeconomics of growth among SMEs in less-developed countries.

Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges.

This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South-South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore.

This study, first published in 1979, continues by examining the question of whether a competitive economy can efficiently allocate a stock of non-renewable natural resources through time.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the global economic landscape, with the smallest and most vulnerable economies particularly hard hit.

This handbook deals with various financial instruments, policies, and strategies in a policy-oriented approach for financing green energy projects.

This book examines the impact of financing on Africa's economic development.

This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance.

Richard Frimpong Oppong argues that radical reforms to community and national laws are needed to ensure economic integration in Africa.

In this revealing book Junie Tong reflects on the role of banking and finance in China.

In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition.

First published in 1975, this book traces the origins of our modern economy, showing the routes by which nations have either achieved wealth or have been impoverished.

This book examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the governance of Africa's natural resource sectors (oil, biofuels, forestry, fisheries, minerals) and new insights for readers as they navigate the burgeoning research on global governance initiatives and regional/national strategies that seek to improve the governance of the continent's natural resources.

The nature of the connection between economic action and structure and ethnic identities receives here a long overdue and incisive re-examination.

Selling a business is a critical event that may occur only once in a lifetime.

This expert analysis looks at what the increasing economic and political prominence of China and other Asian nations means to the West and the rest of the world.

Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development.

This book advances the international debate on the development of e-commerce with focus on emerging ASEAN economies.

This book offers a quantitative and qualitative look at the much-discussed BRICS-Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa-and explores how their economic ascent might cause global economic realignments in the 21st century.

Inner city slums, migrant settlements, construction workers, highlight informal work as underpinning urban poverty and marginalization.

This book takes a unique approach exploring Corporate Social Responsibility through a case study in Bintulu, Malaysia.

An assessment of the impact of the post-Mao market-orientated reforms in China on the Chinese state and its relations with economy and society.

This study analyzes the impact of the revision of the Indian Patent Act (2005) on the Indian pharmaceutical industry, which has been achieving healthy growth over the past 30 to 40 years or more.

Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty.

This collection of essays, collected and published in tribute to the economist Ashok Mitra is inevitably diverse, given the wide range of interests of his professional friends and colleagues.

This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium "e;Beyond Global Capitalism"e; that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013.

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies.

This book offers comprehensive analysis for individual cases of poverty alleviation to facilitate respective in-depth key learnings and an overview of poverty alleviation strategies carried out in China.

This book undertakes rigorous empirical research on competitiveness of the sub-national economies of India.

This book explores the vital role industrial hubs play in the economic catch-up of developing and emerging economies.

On the backdrop of the institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, and the emergence of multi-stakeholder-driven voluntary regulation, this timely collection places special emphasis on India and explores its international voluntary sustainability standards.

This book examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both institutional and empirical study perspectives.