Development economics and emerging economies

The Association for Social Advancement (ASA) of Bangladesh recently topped Forbes magazine's first-ever list of the world's best microfinance banks.

Culture- and event-led regeneration have been catalysts for the transformation of redundant urban port areas and for the reframing of the image of many port cities, which notably feature among mega-event bidding and host cities.

Since China's reform and opening-up in 1978, Zhejiang province has been one of the country's forerunners in economic, social and political transformation.

Great-power conflict and great-power war are still the most dangerous risks the international community is facing today.

China is caught in the rapids of the largest policy crackdown in history.

This book investigates the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa (the ICC or the Court), asking why and how the international criminal justice system has so far largely failed the victims of atrocities in Africa.

This book presents an overview of the economics and politics implemented in the European Union and especially the Eurozone during the crisis of 2008-2012.

There is growing awareness of the relationship between health and development.

This book offers a strategic analysis of current and future perspectives of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into the South East European media market.

This edited collection presents seventeen case studies focused on development banking in Africa at both the national and regional level.

This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.

Unlock the strategies and practices that have propelled Google and similar organizations to the forefront of innovation with this essential guide.

Theory of Macroeconomic Policy reviews the theoretical foundations of macroeconomic, fiscal, and monetary, policy.

The role of governance as a fundamental pillar of sustainability is widely recognized and confirmed by its inclusion in the main ESG issues (environmental social governance).

Since the birth of Bangladesh in December 1971, successive governments have adopted the orthodox economic policies advocated by aid donors and international agencies.

Sustainable development has emerged as an overarching concern globally.

This book looks at how patterns of world trade are changing, how EEC protectionism affects developing countries, how special deals and exceptions are bought in some cases and looks to the future to see how the situation may develop.

Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders.

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

This edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030.

Garrett Hardin, one of our leading thinkers on problems of human overpopulation, here assails the recklessness and basic ecological ignorance of economists and others who champion the idea of unbounded growth.

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The focus of the global economy has increasingly shifted toward China and emerging countries.

The Chinese Government's five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for 'opening the country' to southeast Asia and south Asia.

One overall takeaway is that gradualist approaches will not achieve those goals by 2030.

Neoliberal economic reforms over the last four decades have altered the economic cartography of emerging market economies such as India, particularly in the context of international trade, investment and finance, and in terms of their effects on the real economy.

This title was first published in 2000: A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states with particular emphasis on cross-national variations in speed and direction of post-Communist economic reforms.

The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey brings together leading international scholars and experts on Turkey and regulatory reform to provide essential information on the recent Turkish experience and its relation to competition policy.

This comprehensive work examines ways in which developing countries may achieve economic, political and social reconstruction in the wake of armed conflict.

This book provides deep insight into the flow of foreign direct investment from Asia to Europe.

The Asia-Pacific region has witnessed a rapid rise in bilateral preferential trade agreements at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries, with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely.

Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation.

This volume of papers from the Eighth World Congress deals with changes in proportions and growth rates of sectors of the economy in relation to economic development.

Explores the microeconomic history of the Punjab to situate many popular, current themes in development studies in the historical context.

Conceptualization and measurement of poverty have traditionally relied on purely economic approaches, with income or consumption as the only indicator.

The recent financial crisis, rooted in the United States, has changed the world's economic and financial structures.

First published in 1965, this reissue is a report on the Second Rehovoth Conference of August 1963, convened by the then Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Mr Abba Eban, in order to enable the scientists and political leaders of developing countries to establish meaningful communication on the overall topic of comprehensive planning of agriculture in developing countries.

This book presents a radically different approach to innovation aimed at creating new growth cycles for the Russian economy.

This book focuses on developing a systematic approach to understanding the transformations in Africa's public sector social media landscape.

This book documents and analyses institutional changes in the Chinese labour market over the last twenty years.