Development economics and emerging economies

With the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in December 2015, ASEAN is at a crossroads once again.

This 2010 book reflects on what has happened to the economic development in the Middle East and North Africa since 2001.

This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level.

This text takes issue with the notion that economic well-being of people derives only from quantitatively expanding commercial business activity.

This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand.

The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR's economy.

This book deals with the situation of internally displaced people - those who have been forcibly displaced by natural disasters or development projects.

This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective.

Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment.

This volume introduces readers to the achievements made in the context of China's reform and opening up.

This second edition brings together the views of expert academics and practitioners on the latest regulatory developments in sustainable finance in Europe and includes 5 new chapters on sustainable remuneration, reporting, lending, green monetary policy and ESG.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

More and more Third World countries are providing development assistance to other developing countries.

This contributed volume presents the outcomes of multidisciplinary studies on the problem of sustainable economic development.

Some may dispute the effectiveness of aid.

This book explores sustainable community development in Ghana post-COVID-19, highlighting examples of how individuals facing extreme challenges have adapted to their changing circumstances.

This book introduces ethnoeconomics, explaining how cultural, social, and historical factors influence economic behavior and decision-making.

This book focuses on the history, key industry and policy actors, and political economic outcomes in oil-producing African states.

Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water.

This book is about the introduction of modern power-driven rice milling to the main rice exporting countries of Burma (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand) and French Indo-China (Vietnam) from 1869.

The author examines the rise of the BRICs and the supposed decline of the United States.

Korea's twin transitions - agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial - transformed the country's political economy.

This reissue, first published in 1983, is an authoritative study of economic integration among the states of West Africa, focusing upon the issues and experience of the four main initiatives for regional integration in West Africa, namely the Economic Community of West African States, the Mano River Union, the Communaute Economique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, and the recent initiative for the establishment of an economic and monetary union between Senegal and the Gambia.

A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you thinkif you learn to think like a commoner The biggest "e;tragedy of the commons"e; is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State.

This study presents the economic system of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Social Market Economy.

Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline.

Instead of emphasizing China as a developing country, Chinese President Xi Jinping has identified China as a big power and accentuated China's big power status.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the general framework of sustainable development paths in relation to where countries stand at present, by outlining the main challenges they face, and the potential pathways ahead to foster the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Given the central role of the food and agriculture system in driving so many of the connected ecological, social and economic threats and challenges we currently face, Rethinking Food and Agriculture reviews, reassesses and reimagines the current food and agriculture system and the narrow paradigm in which it operates.

The majority of economists today are opposed to allowing governments a significant role in economic affairs.

The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times.

Using a new methodology for foresight studies, this book presents new findings and policy recommendations to improve living conditions and make progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson's extensive research into the development of Texas's oldest city.

Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy.

This book presents China's wealth management market to the public, institutions and research groups.

Based upon empirical research this book explores the process of China's corporatization reform and investigates whether the reform has altered the process of strategy formulation and implementation of large Chinese SOEs.

The problem of corruption is of central significance for the developmental prospects of poor countries.

Economic Development of Communist China: An Appraisal of the First Five Years of Industrialization analyzes the rapid economic transformation in China between 1952 and 1957 under the First Five-Year Plan.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Brazilian economic thought ranging from colonial times through to the early 21st century.

First published in 1959, The Keynesian Theory of Economic Development is perhaps the first systematic attempt to apply post-Keynesian dynamic economics to the problems of underdeveloped countries.

This book discusses the unique and unusual characteristics of the blockchain and the industries and markets affected by this technology in the Global South.

The process of Asia's rise to a position of eminence in global finance has accelerated in the wake of the international financial crisis, posing new opportunities and challenges to both the Asian economies and the global financial and trade systems.