Development economics and emerging economies

Why did many emerging countries pursue risky financial opening policies in a reckless manner, even after the painful example of the Latin American debt crisis?

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'.

Debate still rages over some of the questions Doreen Massey provoked in the classic first edition of Spatial Divisions of Labor, such as the nature of theory, the importance of contingency and uniqueness, and the relationship of Marxism.

Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health.

Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty defined by the $1.

This book is the culmination of a lifetime of research into Chinese development, situated in a global historical context.

Bringing together feminist analyses of economic processes and outcomes with feminist critiques of Orientalism, this book examines the diverse economic realities facing women in a range of Muslim communities.

The motive force of human activity that propels the stream of progress is here caught at its source, in its most modest, material expressions.

The aim of this book is to analyze the relationships among entrepreneurship, regional development and culture in the current economy.

This book sheds light on the sources of environmental concerns in Africa.

This book examines the essence of leadership, its characteristics and its ways in Asia through a cultural and philosophical lens.

The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity.

Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries.

Christoph Schroder does one of the first attempts to analyze format transfers within the scope of different strategies, format elements, countries and success with focus on the fashion industry.

A group of internationally recognised experts examine the recent trends of cross-border movements of people, goods and economic activity at fifteen major borders in the Greater Mekong Sub-region with the aim of predicting the long terms future for this region.

Introduction to Nonprofit Management: Text and Cases is a unique collection of 28 cases from Ivey Publishing at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

As the world becomes increasingly globalized, the need for governments to continually cooperate to achieve global objectives has become irreversible.

This book applies a spatial economics perspective to the understanding of the recent dynamism of the global economy, with particular focus on East Asia, and examines the prospects of regional integration in East Asia.

The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level.

Firm growth.

The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals include a specific target for full and productive employment.

Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, this collection explores the different dimensions of well being, poverty and inequality.

This reissue, first published in 1976, considers the rapid rate of economic growth in Kenya, combined with its apparent political stability, to determine whether or not this is indeed a case of 'growth without development' and, if so, where the responsibility for aid lies in this situation.

Offering a comprehensive analysis of the development of economies in the Middle East and North Africa over the past half century, this book charts the progress of these countries through an examination of an Islamic model of economic development, reform processes, and economic integration.

In rebuilding conflict-affected states, a major portion of foreign aid focuses on reforming public finance management systems and supporting annual budgets.

This book addresses labour market participation issues of youth in India, and follows an inter-disciplinary approach.

This book focuses on supply chain management in emerging markets.

Tourism is booming world wide - it makes up a massive part of the global economy.

This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy.

This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations.

The book investigates the intricate world of entrepreneurship, examining its dual nature as a force for constructive societal change as well as a potential source of destructive consequences.

There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004.

Originally published in 1988.

Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies.

This book describes the evolution of the community development sector over the past 50 years, and it presents a framework and road map for how community development organizations can advance their mission through strategic partnerships that utilize their core competencies.

This book is a study of a shift in the politics and finance of development from one centered in the institutions and ideas of the post-World War II global political economy to the emergence of South-South economic ties and the rise of authoritarian or state capitalism as an alternative model of development.

The Social Impact of Oil (1982) examines how the town of Peterhead in the UK, hitherto a remote fishing port, was changed by North Sea oil.

Energy price rises have been amongst the biggest change that has taken place in our society over the last few decades.

Inclusive Growth in Africa analyzes the concept of inclusion within the challenges facing Africa's rapidly growing economies, where rising affluence for some has been accompanied almost everywhere with rising inequality.

This book provides insights into the evolving debate regarding the mobilization of domestic resources and the crucial role that financial development can and should play in this regard, exploring aspects of the financial development-domestic resource mobilization nexus, including country case studies.

Puerto Rico lies approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Miami and 1,500 miles from Washington, DC.

Relational Perspectives on Leading discusses leadership from a relational and social constructionism perspective as practiced on an everyday basis between people.

The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform their economies.