Development economics and emerging economies

This book presents paths developing countries can pursue in order to reclaim their ability to take action and improve people's living conditions in the long term.

Why does a huge income gap still exist between developed and developing countries?

Korea's twin transitions - agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial - transformed the country's political economy.

The Novgorod region of Russia is a sparsely populated area about the size of Ireland better known for its medieval archaeology and folklore than for anything else.

This book is a world-class report by the Asia Competitiveness Institute, updated annually to analyse Indonesia's competitiveness at the provincial level.

'A system is just like truth's tail, but the truth is like a lizard.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

The millions of tourists who visit tropical nations annually underscore the region's significance in global tourism.

Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, or Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), present a serious danger in today's world.

This book, from a top international group of scholars, explores the ways in which economic tools can be used to improve the quality of regulation in general and legislative tools in particular.

How has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkable rate - no less than ten per cent per annum - for over three decades?

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world.

The inauguration of the National Assembly of Wales creates a new opportunity to consider the economic agenda for Wales.

First published in 1992, Local Government Economics in Theory and Practice is an effort to rectify the lack of a comparative analysis between democratic local governments of various countries and their methods of financing.

The book explains the impact of bank business models on company business models by discussing the relationship among banks decision-making processes, sustainable values creation in company business models, and ESG risk.

This study describes the organization and operation of the postwar Canadian housing and residential mortgage markets and investigates the role of and scope for government policy in these markets.

This book is the product of an attempt to look differently at the issue of poverty, along with food security and affordable housing.

First published in 1999, this study seeks to explore the effects of economic adjustment and why the classical prescriptions for structural adjustment did not succeed in Mexico, or at best succeeded only partially.

This book comprehensively explores the intricate relationship between banking reforms, economic well-being, and poverty reduction across the African continent.

This authoritative handbook offers insights into the complexities of post-war reconstruction and development economics in Ukraine.

This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society.

This book presents an extensive study on the effectiveness of recent regulations on pharmaceutical prices in India, exploring the weaknesses in the design and implementation of pharmaceutical price controls and investigating what can be done to fix the broken system.

Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policymakers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing countries.

John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed.

Originally published in 1959, the subject of this book is an aspect of economic development which, despite its importance, had rarely attracted more than incidental attention at the time.

This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm.

This is a book that does what the title says, and is different from most business process mapping information in three key ways.

Written in honour of Kaushik Basu, Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development is a celebration of over forty years of contributions to development economics.

At the beginning of the transition process, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the task of creating a functioning financial system where none had existed before.

This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.

First published in 2000, this volume draws from the result of the fieldwork conducted in Yogyakarta Special Region in 1991 and 1992, with the aim of assessing the consequences of the strengthening of urban-rural linkages upon local development in five hinterland communities and an emphasis on employment issues - especially with regard to diversification of the economy.

In this book the author investigates the role of entrepreneurship in the socio-economic development of emerging economies, highlighting its vital part in implementing development programs and policy initiatives.

In a deeply iniquitous world, where the gains from trade are distributed unevenly and where trade rules often militate against progressive social values, human health, and sustainable development, NGOs are widely touted as our best hope for redressing these conditions.

The Chinese Government's five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for 'opening the country' to southeast Asia and south Asia.

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces.

Managers and academia targeting energy performance improvements have a valuable tool in ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems, which allows for a certification after third-party audits.

Three-fourths of the world's poor are rural poor.

The economies of the European countries are still in recession, the development process is at a standstill, companies are facing financial difficulties, and the EU's monetary policy is tight and focused on lowering inflation.

This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea.

The Harvard Business Review Project Management Collection is for anyone serious about project management.

Published in 1998, this book reviews two of the World Bank's agricultural development projects in southeast Nigeria, and concludes that the objectives of these projects - which include reducing rural poverty and developing indigenous capacity for rural development - have not been fully realized.

A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner.

Published in the year 1973, Science, Technology and Development is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics.

The Millennium Development Goals accepted by the UN in 2000 are, along with the targets set by the OECD in 1996 the subject of this expertly written book.