Development economics and emerging economies

Asian economies have become a driving force in the world economy, so are the Asian firms, especially those from emerging markets.

This book provides a solid overview of trade and business opportunities in the Pacific Alliance, focusing on the key drivers of economic growth and development in Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico.

First published in 1975, the main emphasis of this reissued collection is on the various aspects of dependence to which small countries as such are subject, and the policy options in the political and economic field which are open to them.

The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies.

This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world's peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors.

This book is a comprehensive guide to community engagement and investment, beginning with a survey of community-related voluntary standards and then turning to strategy and management, community engagement, community investment and reporting and communications on community-related activities.

Ilchman and Uphoff believe that political science has failed in the past to meet its own standards of rigor and cogency and does not meet standards of usefulness and relevance set by others.

Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for appropriate acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life.

Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.

This book incorporates real-world case studies and relevant data for a detailed reflection on impact investing and financial inclusion.

This book explores how capital-labour relations and antagonisms structure forms of militancy in Vietnam and shows that Vietnamese labour militancy is in line with global trends of worker activism.

Over the last decade, socially responsible investments (SRIs) have become paramount to both professionals and academics.

South Korea underwent rapid economic development under a semi-military, virulently anti-communist government which banned trade unions and kept close checks on the economy.

This book offers an authoritative study on special economic zones in China.

In an effort to understand the reasons for and consequences of the political backlash to the U.

The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development.

Given that there is no shortage of economic theories while economic problems are growing periodically, Conceptual Economics boldly attempts to initiate a new approach by employing conceptual and intuitive tools to examine the intra-relationship between microeconomics and macroeconomics as well as the inter-relationship between economic analysis and other social science studies, especially the relationship with political science.

This book highlights the use of art in human rights, specifically within Africa.

This book offers a thorough examination of the economics of financial inclusion and management from a contemporary standpoint.

Public-private partnerships are becoming increasingly important in the local economic development efforts of many cities.

This book critically explores how meanings of 'independence' are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

This book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment in the Global South.

Networking Games: Network Forming Games and Games on Networks applies game theory methods to network analyses.

Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination.

Originally published in 1992, Capital Mobilization and Regional Financial Markets, argues that barriers to financial flows within regions may be as important in affecting capital flows as interregional barriers.

How women increasingly became economic agents in early modern Europe is the focus of this stimulating book, which highlights how female agency was crucial for understanding the development of the Western European economy and sheds light on economic development today.

The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices.

This book makes a timely and highly stimulating contribution to the discourse on emerging-market multinationals, (EMNCs), as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe from emerging countries (especially from the BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India, China) continues to grow in significance.

This book looks at the future role of local economic development.

Pereira and Mattei bring contributors together in this exciting volume to further understanding about the recent Brazilian Economic Development Model and discuss the related social conditions.

This book analytically reviews the impact of the global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework on the compliance trajectory of a number of jurisdictions to this framework.

This book examines the Punjab river waters controversy in South Asia, a major defining feature of Punjab politics.

Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries?

This proceedings volume examines the impact of ethics on business and entrepreneurship predominantly from the Romanian perspective.

Rivers are a vital component of ecology-the earth's hydrological cycle depends on them.

The remarkable rise of China over the past three decades has been unprecedented in both its scale and speed.

This book takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions: tenure decision, gentrification, place attachment, housing bubbles, housing wealth, and residential satisfaction.

Over the past 20 years, more than 100 countries have implemented social safety nets, targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable.

A comprehensive examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of internal migration in developing countriesDespite the key role of rural-urban migration in structural transformation and the persistence of lower living standards in the countryside, active policies to reduce, or even reverse, movement into towns are common in major developing regions.

Designed to replace Martin Holland's The European Union and the Third World, this new text provides systematic coverage of the European Union's policies in relation to the developing world in the 21st century and includes substantial coverage of governance issues and the relationship between development initiatives and European integration.

Given the significant changes in the banking environment and the resultant pressures on banks to change their systems and procedures, this book is a timely reference that provides a comprehensive analytical overview of changes in the performance measurement system (PMS) of banks in the post-financial crisis era.

Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies.

This book explores the potential for renewable energy development and the adoption of sustainable production processes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

China has achieved rapid economic growth since the market-oriented reform in 1978 and became the second largest economy in the world in 2010.

India's recent economic performance has attracted world attention but the country is re-awakening not just as an economy but as a civilization.