Development economics and emerging economies

This book encapsulates the 'New Normal Policy' which has changed the regional policy between China and the African continent.

The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency.

In the context of the worldwide concern with the sustainability of current forms of development, business managers are being required to engage with environmental policy more creatively than in the past.

This edited book combines academic and managerial insights on achieving business success in Sub-Saharan African markets.

Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States.

This book explores sustainable development from the perspective of the post-communist experience of Eastern Europe.

We live in a fundamentally changed world.

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa.

Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society.

This volume examines the development of Guangdong, especially the Pearl River Delta, throughout the era of China's economic reforms and opening to the external world (from 1978 till now).

This book examines India-China relations throughout history as well as in the context of current business cooperation and competition.

Bear Traps examines Russia's longer term economic growth prospects.

This study, originally published in 1990, seeks to address several important policy questions associated with the ongoing depletion of forested wetlands.

The Oxford Handbook of Computational Economics and Finance provides a survey of both the foundations of and recent advances in the frontiers of analysis and action.

Originally published in 1984 this book remains as relevant as when it was first published.

This book sheds light on current issues in sustainable finance through an in-depth analysis and discussion of relevant sustainable products and sustainable initiatives of several financial institutions.

This is a book discussing China's economic transition and development since the beginning of modern times.

Written by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, this book gives an overview of evaluation practice at IFAD.

This book is a collection of chapters on issues we face today in the world of supply chain management.

This book provides practical policy recommendations that are useful for developing Asia and for accelerating poverty reduction plans in the rest of the world.

The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights.

Once recognised as a high-performing newly industrialising Asian economy with the potential for economic and developmental success similar to South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, Thailand's growth rate and competitive edge have declined substantially.

Interpretative history of development and management studies that explains how non-governmental actors acquired prominence as private actors offering market-based solutions.

Most capital markets that have been established in developing economies like Africa have struggled to make progress over two decades down the line.

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

The last decade has brought sharp adjustment and rising poverty for most of the developing world.

Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future.

This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services.

How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty.

What do Brazil's top beauty brand, America's second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world's third bestselling car have in common--besides achieving enormous success with revenue in the tens of billions?

An analysis and evaluation of Amartya Sen''s ''capability approach'' to development ethics.

The term "e;economic globalization"e; has been discussed extensively in the popular press, by business executives and by policy-makers all over the world.

As the United States slowly disengages from the Middle East and Europe faces internal challenges, a new actor is quietly exerting greater influence across North Africa: China.

In scheduling theory, the models that have attracted considerable attention during the last two decades allow the processing times to be variable, i.

This book discusses various dimensions of Indian fiscal federalism, focusing on the current fiscal imbalances - both vertical and horizontal - and their correction.

This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various scales and in different contexts.

This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa's resource curse.

The emergence of mobile money and other new forms of payment has changed the sovereign foundations of money.

Economic transformation in traditional development economics refers to the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial one.

Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements.