Development economics and emerging economies

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries.

The Thai Economy examines the origins and consequences of the Thai economy's accelerated growth since the mid-1980s.

The Development Co-operation Report is the key annual reference document for statistics and analysis on trends in international aid.

The World Bank considers financial inclusion to be an enabler for at least 7 of the 17 United Nation's sustainable development goals (SDGs).

It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians.

Brazil has one of the world's fastest growing economies and a fascinating history underpinning its evolution.

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.

Puerto Rico lies approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Miami and 1,500 miles from Washington, DC.

This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development.

After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development.

One of the driving forces in catalyzing sustainable development interventions is systems accountability.

This book analyses the shortcomings of the Western development aid programme.

This book fills an important gap in the knowledge about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings, and it analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey carried out in early 2012.

The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment.

This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure.

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Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong's economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.

Despite the considerable economic growth of the Asia-Pacific, poverty continues to be a major problem.

This volume is a critical inquiry into the social project and socioeconomic realities of emerging Brazil, a country that faces profound changes.

 This book explores how and why Mexico s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the Lopez Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico s Fourth Transformation .

Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy.

This book presents theoretical examinations of why and how connecting people yields different results from those of the market mechanism alone.

This book is the ninth volume in "e;Contemporary Logistics in China"e;, authored by the researchers in Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism.

The Annual Report objectively reflects the whole year's progress of politics, economy, society, culture, system, environment, innovation and reform, as well as the problems, challenges and countermeasures in traditional special economic zones and new special economic zones.

This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings' plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the country's political and economic decision-making processes.

This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor.

This book assesses developmental experience in different countries as well as British expansion following the industrial revolution from a developmental perspective.

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

This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa.

With a combined population larger than that of the EU or NAFTA, economic integration of the ASEAN states will have a massive impact on both the Asian and global economies.

These two volumes are about understanding-why-and application-how-with the aim of providing guidance and introduction to both.

The book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of corporate integrated reporting (IR) in South Asia.

Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a "e;"e;culture of poverty,"e;"e; Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil.

In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice.

This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail.

At a time when Peru continues to reel from the impact of Covid-19 and the eruption of corruption scandals involving five former presidents, this book analyzes the persistence and the structural underpinnings of underdevelopment in Peru.

Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Silk Road Economic Belt component of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative at Kazakhstan in 2013.

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.

Responding to the need for organizations to improve global strategic planning and execution, this book presents a framework for effectively conceiving and executing new concepts for international markets.

This book discusses the developments in trade theories, including new-new trade models that account for firm level trade flows, trade growth accounting using inverse gravity models (including distortions in gravity models), the impact of trade liberalization under the aegis of regional and multilateral liberalization efforts of economies using partial and general equilibrium analysis, methodologies of constructing ad valorem equivalents of non-tariff barriers, volatility spillover effects of financial and exchange rate markets.

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes.

In this Springer Brief, the author introduces how Chinese firms are successfully using their own variants of the 'Silicon Valley Approach' to management.

Microeconomics is concerned with the production, consumption and distribution of goods by the micro units of individuals, firms and markets within the economy.