Development economics and emerging economies

Growing economic inequality, corporate influence in politics, an eroding middle class.

This work presents a systematic historical and analytical understanding of Sri Lanka's social development.

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The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity.

Energy comes in many shapes and forms, from wind, solar power, geothermal, and biomass to coal, natural gas, and petroleum.

An Exploration into China's Economic Development and Electricity Demand by the Year 2050, is an exploratory study of national and regional economic development, energy demand and electricity demand in China by the year of 2050.

Since the economic crisis of 1997, there have been significant social policy reforms in East Asia.

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present.

The book aims to identify key issues and developments in ASEAN-5 that illustrate the transition of this region towards a knowledge-based economy.

China's increasing involvement in Africa is a controversial and hotly debated issue.

This volume examines China''s approaches to international trade law, investment law, financial law, competition law, and intellectual property.

A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century.

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success.

A number of indicators point to rapid and extraordinary shifts in the Chinese high-technology landscape.

Fraud has become a challenging phenomena affecting economies worldwide.

Addressing the entire care chain, this book presents the outcomes of advanced research on healthcare operations management based on real-world data and practices in China.

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This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development, and explores the role that immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland.

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This book explores the second-order effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development in India.

Providing evidence of the role of human capital on innovation in the Middle East, this edited collection closely examines the unique nature of the workforce in this region.

Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class provides a compelling case, real-world examples, and the tools to follow a proven strategy for aligning sustainability efforts with existing organizational priorities.

This brings together relevant papers on macro-, monetary and development economics from many eminent economists from all over the world who are closely associated with the works of Late Professor Anita Ghatak of Greenwich University, UK who was an expert in the field of macroeconomics and econometrics.

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective.

China and India have both received a great amount of focus from the foreign investors.

Financial services with global reach are becoming ever more important in the conduct and organization of the trade and investment of nations, and currencies that lack international standing lose out in this business.

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement.

The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models.

Since the very beginnings of economics as a science, which might be dated from Ibn Khaldun's "e;Introduction to History"e; (1377), the challenge of making societies escape from poverty and attain some degree of prosperity has always been, and will remain, a fundamental issue.

The information you need to invest in emerging markets, in one Little Book The world's economies are in a state of flux.

In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country's development landscape and urban-rural relationships.

This book unifies housing policy by integrating industrialized and developing-country interventions in the housing sector into a comprehensive global framework.

Rural marketing entails applying marketing strategies customized for rural areas to enhance the economic and social welfare of the communities it serves.

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present.

This book focuses on major development themes in the G20''s agenda in the provision of global public goods.

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.

This book investigates corruption and anti-corruption efforts in Africa, emphasising the regional and thematic differences across the continent, whilst also exploring key patterns and trends.

Two perspectives have dominated the social science discourse on climate change adaptation.

The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises.

This book explores Chinese investments in, and cooperation with Pakistan under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The book examines the conceptual, economic, and fiscal impact(s) of the Social Protection Floor (SPF) initiative of the International Labor Organisation (ILO) and other policy influencers by first critically examining the methodologies used by the international agencies to estimate the fiscal costs of designated minimum package(s) of social protection programs.

At the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium, South Asia has emerged as a key regional variable in the contemporary global order.

This book explains why political instability is not necessarily correlated with economic stagnation.

Structural Revolution in International Business Architecture Volume 2 fills important gaps in the existing literature of management science by providing new and improved methods of optimal control system modeling.