Development economics and emerging economies

Ethical discourse is commonly not a priority in a conventional finance syllabus.

Oil, an integral part of the contemporary global economy, is considered a driving force behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa: The Resource Curse Undermined shows that countries in sub-Saharan Africa with majority state ownership of their major oil or mineral export sectors suffered from more severe versions of the natural resource curse than other similar countries.

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For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent.

"e;Conflict-free"e; Socio-Economic Systems: Perspectives and Contradictions analyses crisis as a component of the growth and development process of economic systems, and its role within the economic cycle.

The book examines the nature of development and diversification in the oil and gas exports, development planners have sought to implement a range of strategies for diversifying the economy in order to secure sustainable levels of growth and development.

This book explores how spirituality and resiliency definesthe character of African women and inspires them to serve the communities andorganizations around them.

This book applies a gendered lens to evaluate the dynamic linkages between climate change and livelihoods in developing countries.

This book is a compass for resource rich-developing countries, taking Mongolia as a case study.

Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword, and cities and towns like the last places to change, but The Natural Step for Communities provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability, and explains how others can emulate their success.

The purpose of this annual report is to develop an index of good humanitarian donorship that will measure donors' effectiveness against their commitment to the Principles and Good Practise of Humanitarian Donorship.

The spread of the manufacturing industry is an important part of economic development, creating jobs, new products and trade and investment links between countries.

An original analysis of the relationship between political institutions and national economic performance in the developing world.

This book discusses the role of inclusive innovation for development in rural India.

An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region.

Since the year 2000 Latin America has been at the forefront of a series of diverse experiments with alternative forms, pathways and models of economic development and at the cutting edge of the international theoretical and political debates that surround these experiments.

This immensely readable book by Patrick Francois provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital.

The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo.

This book explores the transition into a future economy where human work is largely replaced by automation.

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry.

This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana's hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse in resource-rich countries.

China's emergence in Africa is the most significant development for the continent since at least the end of the Cold War.

This book looks at economic development issues primarily through the use of game theory.

The Post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries.

This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in developing economies.

The main objective of this book is to identify the key sources of growth which have played a significant role in Africa's recent robust growth as well as its efforts towards economic transformation.

Drawing on insights from across Africa, this book investigates the discourses and practices that guide doctoral training today.

The Economic Theory of Developing Countries' Rise examines the great economic development achievements of China within such a short period of time, which have surprised the world and have also raised other developing countries' hopes for catching up with developed countries.

This book analyses one of the most controversial areas in the political economy of international trade, namely the issues surrounding the creation of newtrade rules.

This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in developing and transitional countries around the world.

By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies.

This timely book collects the latest research on digital transformations unfolding in agriculture across the globe, with a special focus on Russia and the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?

Two prominent features of the current global economy are the world-wide recession brought about by the recent financial crisis, and the emergence of major economic powers from within the developing world such as Brazil, China and India.

One of the most striking phenomena of China's remarkable economic growth is that its huge volume of exports are becoming high-tech.

This book explores the vital role industrial hubs play in the economic catch-up of developing and emerging economies.

Asking the question of whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is 'integrating' the world economy, this comprehensive volume consists of an overview of current FDI research.

This book presents a broad range of empirical research papers covering key issues in development finance.

Richly represented in the Russian folktale tradition, the legends in this work are religious tales in a peasant village setting.

This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The book examines various aspects of Africa's external economy by focusing on regional monetary arrangements and how they are affected by devaluation episodes.