Development economics and emerging economies

The Italian Cooperative Sector is amongst the largest in the world comprising over 60,000 cooperatives from all sectors of the economy directly employing 1.

Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population.

Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights presents fundamental knowledge about a maturing economic field.

This edited collection brings together expertise from around the globe to overview and debate key concepts and concerns in the economics of religion.

Global processes have an increasing influence on local contexts and the nature and distribution of opportunities among populations across the globe.

In 1998, Internet-related industries created over a million jobs and generated more than $330 billion in revenue.

An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and what this could mean for democracy's futureSince the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood repeated economic shocks and financial crises to become the hegemonic economic policy worldwide.

What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country?

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From 1965 to 1990, the 23 East Asian economies grew faster than all other regions of the world.

Multinational Cooperation for Development in West Africa discusses the obstacles and prospects of organizations that were formed to facilitate considerable cooperation in the developing countries of West Africa.

Revenues from commodities are extremely important for Latin America and the Caribbean, yet there is very little literature on the structure of these industries and on the various ways in which the state obtains commodity revenues.

The authors investigate well-known concerns in natural resource management in Africa while focusing on the capacity dimension of the problems.

A fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in world history.

This book chronicles the rise and especially the demise of diverse revolutionary heterodox traditions in Cambridge theoretical and applied economics, investigating both the impact of internal pressures within the faculty as also the power of external ideological and political forces unleashed by the global dominance of neoliberalism.

The object of this study is to investigate the effects that complete and formal integration of the Canadian with the American capital market would have on the Canadian economy.

This book provides new perspectives on recent Asian dynamism which go beyond the mainstream views, by attempting to situate the recent economic expansion within a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation and the various processes that it generates both within and across economies.

This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses to sustainable development, from a distance education perspective.

Vietnam wird auch als das Land des "Aufsteigenden Drachen" bezeichnet.

This timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global leaders or national liabilities.

The prosperity of China's people has advanced very much in recent decades.

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Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity.

Many developing countries have embarked on liberalisation programmes in recent years.

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world.

Religion and development have been intertwined since development's beginnings, yet faith-based aid and development agencies consistently fail to consider how their theology and practice intersect.

First published in 1968, States' Finances in India not only provides the first descriptive account of the finances of the states since Indian Independence, but also offers an analysis which successfully puts into perspective national, state and local finance on the one hand and problems of plan financing, taxation, borrowing and public expenditure on the other.

The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

This book was born out of the need to 'capture' the experience and understanding of the regeneration management process that is neither UK centric nor centred exclusively on urban areas.

Chapters 1 and 10 from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic.

This fascinating and ambitious book proposes a new strategy ("e;the Ramo Plan"e;) to tackle the current global socioeconomic crisis.

This two-volume book unveils trends, strengths, weaknesses and overall dynamics and implications of social entrepreneurship in the Middle East region, whilst identifying both opportunities and threats facing social entrepreneurship and supplements through a wealth of insights and examples inspired from practice and current applications.

Originally published in 1991, The Economic Organisation of a Financial System develops a descriptive theory of a financial system's organisation and functions and applies the theory of organisational economics to the study of a financial system.

The world seems divided to either applaud or fear the rise of China, but this book probes deeper by investigating three aspects of the phenomenon in detail: 1) the institutional dilemmas of the prosperity as it integrates Asian authoritarianism with globalizing capitalism to create economic accomplishments; 2) the political struggles alongside the prosperity as Chinese citizens begin to demand equality, rights, and justice that might be viewed to disturb the continuity of stability and development; and 3) the global implications entailed by the prosperity - not only in power politics, war and peace, or competitions among nations, but especially on global public goods termed "e;human security"e;.

People around the world are confused and concerned.

Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States.

Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries.

This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China.

This book illustrates how the treatment of complexity in analytical frameworks shapes economic studies.

This book approaches the issue of rural-urban inequality through fieldwork conducted in a specific township (Zuogang) in Qinggang County, part of Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China.

This book develops the term 'Sustainable Innovations' and defines it on the basis of plant variety innovations that, by their very nature, (i) permit the in situ conservation of agrobiodiversity and genetic variability in diverse geographic and climatic conditions, (ii) do not exclude any potential innovators from the process of innovation, and thereby (iii) ensure that both formal and informal innovations can continue to take place in the generations to come (in both the developed and developing world).

This book examines and explains the intellectual capital reporting practices, with a human capital focus, of firms located in the developing nation of Sri Lanka.