Development economics and emerging economies

Originally published in 1994 this book concerns successful implementation of radical, technological innovations within business organizations.

This handbook is a comprehensive and up to date work of reference that offers a survey of the state of financial geography.

This book focuses on participation of the public and private sectors in urban water management and on the role of water pricing.

This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives.

This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demonstrate three different levels of innovation and entrepreneurship: the macro-level, which concerns the impact of innovation activity on economic growth and production systems; the meso-level, which concerns the relations between firms, research institutes and governmental bodies and their role in innovation activity; and the micro-level, which concerns the dynamics of innovations within firms and organisations.

This book explores the opportunities and epistemological and structural challenges facing higher education in postcolonial South Africa and argues for a fundamental transformation to meet the needs of the 21st century.

In the mid-1980s the international development community helped launch what was to quickly become one of the most popular poverty reduction and local economic development policies of all time.

Angola is poised between a past marked by civil war and corruption, and a future of potential economic development.

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades.

A Brookings Institution Press and United Nations Development Programme publicationLatin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

This edited volume brings together contributions from experts on a range of food security issues, and examines them through a number of case studies.

At a time when the development community is grappling with the challenge of raising the required investment-estimated in the trillions of dollars-for attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries' mobilization of their own fiscal revenues is receiving increasing attention.

This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries.

Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net.

This book argues that mainstream economics cannot explain the underdevelopment and poverty of Nepal, neither can it be explained in terms of economics alone nor capital inadequacy even, as is conventionally believed.

Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary indigenization topics in the cultural context of sub-Saharan Africa.

By analyzing the status quo of the industrial economy, this book argues that the economic growth in China's industrial economy will continue to decline, with industries becoming segmented more rapidly, profitability slumping, and economic structures being adjusted further.

This volume engages with the roots, dimensions, and implications of foreign currency domination in states with a national currency.

Studies pitfalls in value added accounting of sectoral growth in real terms in the context of liberalisation of the Indian economy.

International Partnership in Russia provides a unique insight into the joint ventures formed by international oil companies in Russia during the post-Soviet era.

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?

This book represents a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in the Balkans region.

During the last decade of the 20th century, Africa has been marked by a "e;constitutional wind"e; which has blown across the continent giving impetus to constitutional reforms designed to introduce constitutionalism and good governance.

China's food security has never failed to attract the public's attention.

This book is unique in that it challenges scholarly views on financial inclusion and poverty reduction while also relating financial inclusion and poverty reduction to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book explores the drivers of technological upgrading and catch-up in the emerging economies, paying specific attention to technology and innovation policies, national innovation systems, the role of foreign direct investment and small and medium enterprises.

This book offers an understanding of the expectations and challenges of Northeast India in the context of India's Act East policy.

Douglas Bullis goes beyond the usual superficial accounts found in the usual import/export books and provides something truly unique: an in-depth analysis of what India needs from the rest of the world, not what the world can get out of India.

This book examines partnerships between commercial banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs).

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This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development.

Getting accurate data on less developed countries has created great problems for studying these areas.

Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies.

This book provides a comprehensive reassessment of the development of the economy of Pakistan since independence to the present.

Zheng Bijian has been one of the most influential thinkers and policy formulators in China during its reform period.

This volume presents selected papers on recent management research from the 20th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which was held in Vienna in 2016.

Using original qualitative ethnographic field interviews and quantitative field survey results, Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy explores the rationale for and model of 'off the books' consumption in a borderlands environment.