Development economics and emerging economies

This edited volume examines the challenges of globalization in light of the need to revisit and reconceptualize the notion of Pan-Africanism.

This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopt policies that distort agricultural prices.

It is generally understood that some effective leadership behaviors of Chinese managers differ from those of Western managers.

Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa offers an accessible and understandable overview of the challenges of integrating sustainability into tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides some interesting recommendations on how these could be overcome.

The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment.

The Seventh Annual Seminar of Canadian-American relations held at the University of Windsor brought together a number of distinguished participants, representing such interested groups as labour, business, and research, to discuss planning.

This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries.

This edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states.

This book provides a broad overview of the current research on various aspects of development, with a focus on India.

Located in central Ethiopia, the Arssi region is one of the most productive in Ethiopia yet it has so far been neglected by scholars.

There is increasing recognition that teachers will play a key role in preparing students for the challenges of the future.

This book discusses how to measure the level of development of an economy, particularly, the task of ranking economies in terms of their development.

In this book, the authors analyze big data on global interdependence caused by the flows of commodities, money, and people, using a network science approach to obtain differing views of globalization and to clarify the facts on isolation of communities.

Chatterjee discusses India's economic strengths and weaknesses and its progress towards inclusive growth by providing an overview of the Indian economy, its future challenges and current policy strategies.

When globalization affects jobs and economies, policy makers strive to plan, design and implement actions to support their communities and businesses (Ansell and Gash 2007).

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations.

Bio-Economy and Agri-Production: Concepts and Evidence bridges the knowledge gap between sustainability and bio-economy aspects of agri-production.

This second edition updates all chapters and covers the impacts of the global financial crisis and the European Union.

Asia''s powerful networks tying together business and politicians threaten risk derailing Asia''s claim to the 21st century.

In Dance of the Trillions, David Lubin tells the story of what makes money flow from high-income countries to lower-income ones; what makes it flow out again; and how developing countries have sought protection against the volatility of international capital flows.

The world is marked by multiple crises and challenges that transcend borders and require not only local but global solutions.

In 1978, China launched economic reforms that have resulted in one of history's most dramatic national transformations.

In this book some of the leading thinkers in development studies trace the history of their multi-disciplinary subject from the late colonial period and its establishment during decolonization all the way through to its contemporary concerns with poverty reduction.

This book explores the means through which the garment industry contributes to industrialization, poverty reduction, empowerment of undereducated workers, in particular female laborers, and shared growth in contemporary low-income countries.

With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis.

This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions.

Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike.

In the late 1950s, the Filipino economy could reasonably have been described as more advanced than those of its South Asian neighbours.

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history.

Im globalen Suden, besonders in Landern wie Vietnam, hat sich in den letzten 40 Jahren enormes Wirtschaftswachstum zugetragen und die Gesellschaft umfassend verandert.

This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool.

More African women than men become entrepreneurs, with women often balancing time caring for their households with small enterprises such as setting up shops in front of their homes, renting market stalls, or setting up hairstyling businesses.

This book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits.

This fascinating and groundbreaking book by an eminent team of scholars provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history.

This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets.

This book examines the impact of globalization on the Indian economy, exploring the trade, investment and financial aspects of globalization, and also considering its implications for the balance of payments and currency exchange rate.

Infrastructure as Business brings new emphasis and clarity to the importance of private investment capital in large-scale infrastructure projects, introducing investors, policymakers, and other stakeholders to a key element that is surprisingly absent from the discourse on public-private partnerships.

The economies of the People's Republic of China and India are emerging-market economies, which account for more than a third of the global population.

Economists have moved in recent years beyond analyzing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescribing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbalances.

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments.

Some two decades will shortly have passed since the WTO's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement came into force in 1995.

This book offers a fresh look at the global apparel industry, focusing on Korean multinational corporations (MNCs) and their growing role in building regional connections and shaping economic and social development in Asia.