Development economics and emerging economies

Presents the evolutionary perspective of the economy as perpetually moving, driven by innovation, and the empirical research this has guided.

This book is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research.

This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute introduces a new ease of doing business index that aims to allow for a better approximation of ease of doing business conditions in India's sub-national economies.

How have the events of the twenty-first century shaped African economies and societies?

Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress.

In order to be sustainable, a civilization must maintain the balance between 'mind' and 'matter' and between the egocentric 'I' and 'the others'.

This book analyses the role of the African Union and regional economic communities in contributing to peacebuilding in Africa.

International development is now a major global activity and the focus of the rapidly growing academic discipline of development studies.

This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century.

Brazil is the most populous economy in Latin America with the second highest GDP among the emerging BRIC economies, after China, and the second per capita GDP among the BRIC economies after Russia.

The rise of communalism in recent years as the major claimant to power in Indian politics has posed a serious challenge to the survival of democracy and is even threatening the fabric of the Constitution.

India has moved along an impressive growth path over the last decade, marked with falling share of agriculture, stagnating manufacturing, expanding services segment, growing trade orientation, enhanced FDI inflows etc.

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the APEF 2019 conference which was held on 25th and 26th July 2019 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront in Singapore.

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.

Philanthropy s role in advancing sustainable development attracts a lot of attention.

Providing a critical insight into the growth of the secondhand luxury and vintage fashion industry, this book offers a compendium of business developments from across the globe, including examples from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

This report discusses the estimated $1 trillion annual global infrastructure gap and provides recommendations on how U.

The recent interest in the development processes of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has been triggered by their high growth performance, but their political and social backgrounds are entirely different.

The global economic system is experiencing a profound period of rapid change.

In the same way that no economy starts out with the best set of economic policies, no economy starts out with the best institutions to support the policy-making process.

This book investigates the role of wealth in achieving sustainable rural economic development.

An insightful account of the remarkable transition of the Chinese economy from impoverished backwater to economic powerhouse.

A critical appraisal of regionalism as a key strategy in Africa's development explaining the failures thus far of attempts at regional integration on the continent.

This book is a compilation of transferable insights relevant to the dynamics of the current Asian business sector.

Risk and Return in Asian Emerging Markets offers readers a firm insight into the risk and return characteristics of leading Asian emerging market participants by comparing and contrasting behavioral model variables with predictive forecasting methods.

International Humanitarian NGOs and State Relations: Politics, Principles and Identity examines the often discordant relationship between states and international non-governmental organisations working in the humanitarian sector.

This book examines the international political economy of China's exchange rate policy making from theoretical and empirical perspectives.

This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects and policies on local economies.

The livelihood of Third World farmers conflicts with saving the remaining tropical forests.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the practice of international business in the Asia-Pacific region.

An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s.

This book assesses developmental experience in different countries as well as British expansion following the industrial revolution from a developmental perspective.

Humanitarian crises have become more frequent, complex and protracted.

This book explains how an organization can use a management system to both control and improve its environmental performance.

Africa has made notable progress in its nascent democracy but with uneven performance across countries.

Duman examines the transition from Keynesianism to monetarism by presenting an analysis of labour market reforms in Greece and Turkey - questioning the role of class struggle on the implementation process.

The local levels of economies have felt the impact of technological change and globalization.

This book elaborates on how China's previous leaders established, consolidated, developed and improved China's basic modern governance system.

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today's linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible.

This book looks at two-stage industrial cluster theory and new innovation models in view of IT-ization and servitization of products.

This book focuses on Iran to explore the question of how the nature of industrial organizations and the whole system they constitute can exert a great influence on an industry's competitiveness and resilience.

This book is the outcome of a South-South conference jointly organized by the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, May 2012.

Young people are a vulnerable category of workers, finding themselves in a delicate phase of their working life: their first entry into the labour market.