Development economics and emerging economies

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "e;their"e; diasporas.

Reflecting the emergence of new organizational forms and hybrid organizations, this edited collection explores the processes of exchange, collaboration and technological management that have changed organizational structures.

The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental threats.

This book analyzes the various problems of growth, trade and public policy from the perspective of applied economics, based on research in areas such as public policies, trade and regulation, and development economics.

The book assesses the development experience by reflecting on a number of aspects, su--ch as growth in relation to employment, regional imbalances and rural-urban distribution.

A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "e;Sustainable Development Goals,"e; to be achieved by 2030.

This volume provides a rigorous and balanced perspective on the causes and implications of dollarization, and the basic policies and options to deal with it: the adaptation of the monetary and prudential frameworks, the development of local-currency substitutes, and the scope for limiting dollarization through administrative restrictions.

This book combines modern evolutionary economics and classical political economy.

This book is a fascinating treatment of ethics, governance, and anti-corruption initiatives from a public sector management perspective and is especially relevant for an Africa looking to benefit from the recently launched Africa Continental Free Trade Area.

This volume explores Japan's industrialization from the perspective of "e;indigenous development"e;, focusing on what may be identified as "e;traditional"e; or "e;indigenous"e; factors.

China's recent stepping up of relations with Africa is one of the most significant developments on the African continent for decades.

In most Latin American countries, key officials and political figures have been involved in big corruption scandals in the last decade, leading to a rigorous academic debate on the possible socio-economic, political and cultural factors responsible for corrupt practices across the region.

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

Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria; "e;clicktivists"e; create social media storms over company missteps.

A highly original book that provides policy solutions for development challenges, framing them with insightful and inventive allegories.

Uganda: A Modern History (1981) provides a comprehensive political, social and economic history of Uganda from the beginnings of colonial rule in 1888.

This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies.

Food problems - the efficient production or procurement of food and its appropriate distribution among members of society - are problems endemic to mankind.

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

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840.

The report from the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development outlines a new tool for policymakers to encourage private-sector development in developing nations.

This volume examines the relationship between trade liberalization policies and income inequality in developing countries.

This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons.

In this second edition, Lee provides extensive coverage of international trade law from an economic development perspective.

Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development.

`[This book offers] interesting empirical data to support or question a number of gender and women-related assumptions.

Within thirty years of its humble beginnings, Taiwan was listed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as one of ten newly industrialized countries (NICs).

This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses to sustainable development, from a distance education perspective.

With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world.

This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society.

This book highlights the principles and practices that lead to sustainable and positive leadership within SME.

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations.

Sovereign Debt and Credit Rating Bias rejects the notion that credit rating agencies' rigorous and transparent determination of ratings leaves no room for bias, and debunks the myth that the value CRAs place on their reputational capital precludes prolonged biases.

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

Originally published in 1990, Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa examines the democratic future of South Africa in the context of policy options and constraints.

This textbook provides a historical survey of economic and political development theory and practice from 1945.

What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas?

This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.

This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently resilient to cope with the ecological and social challenges that confront them.

Originally published in 1992.