Development economics and emerging economies

This book is the first publication to provide a comprehensive overview about the market, financial instruments and the associated impact assessment for interested practitioners and academics.

Current debates on emerging powers as foreign aid donors often fail to examine the myriad geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural tensions that influence policies of Official Development Assistance (ODA).

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

Entrepreneurship is a key element in the development of market based economies and one of the potential drivers of change in countries that are in the process of transformation to market based systems.

How can aid and private flows interact to produce a high-quality stream of development financing that reduces poverty and fosters sustainable development?

China's remarkable economic transition and capacity for dynamic growth has stunned the world.

This edited volume discusses the role of innovation and regional integration in economic development in Africa.

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008.

Industrial Development in Africa critically synthesizes and reframes the debates on African industrial development in a capability-opportunity framework.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) place a strong emphasis on empowering women and reducing poverty.

First published in 1988, this reissue presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary developments and research into the geography of the Third World, at a time when economies and societies there were changing at a much more rapid rate than their counterparts in the developing world.

The book sets out to explore the economic motivations of imperial expansion under capitalism.

Pastoralists' role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers.

The Routledge Handbook of Africa-Asia Relations is the first handbook aimed at studying the interactions between countries across Africa and Asia in a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive way.

Countries commencing industrialization with relatively low levels of agricultural productivity, hence low wages, enjoy advantages that can also prove host to daunting challenges.

Analyzes entrepreneurial ecosystems though the lens of gender to identify myriad individual, organizational, and institutional factors that create gendered inequities.

Explores how British and Japanese firms have responded to globalization from a long-term perspective.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management, environmental economics, production economics and sustainable agricultural development.

"e;A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them-and how policymakers can learn from that.

An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world's biggest producer of renewable energyHydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world's largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics.

A Financial Times Best Business Book of the YearNamed one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done The EconomistPolman's new book with the sustainable business expert Andrew Winstonargues that it's profitable to do business with the goal of making the world better.

This book studies cross-country differences in cognitive capital, exploring how levels of education are linked to a nation''s economic development.

This book examines the successful private, public and civil society models of agriculture value chains in India and addresses relevant challenges and opportunities to improve their efficiency and inclusiveness.

This book is the first of its kind to systematically analyze and apply Lim Chong Yah's S-Curve Hypothesis to the various facets of economic growth and economic transition.

This book looks at the ways African borders impact war and conflict, as well as the ways continental integration could contribute towards cooperation, peace and well-being in Africa.

This book focuses on the tremendous shift in both economic growth and development progress taking place towards the Asia-Pacific Region.

This book documents the role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development.

This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said.

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

This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis.

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

This book presents a critical view of economic development in the last 50 years and evaluates different approaches taken that led to success or failure.

This book analyses the magnitude of the relationship between family background and adult occupational and educational outcomes and provides a comprehensive view of intergenerational mobility in the context of religious and caste dynamics in India.

El Salvador has made significant development progress in the past 30 years.

Sustainable development has been approached from many viewpoints over the past 15 years without a concise or precise definition of what sustainable development really stands for.

This book explores the key economic issues facing Southeastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the context of the serious challenges that the global economy has faced in recent years.

First published in 1975, the main emphasis of this reissued collection is on the various aspects of dependence to which small countries as such are subject, and the policy options in the political and economic field which are open to them.

Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.

This book investigates sustainability, CSR, climate change adaptation, the relevance of ESG scores and their impact on firm value and growth.

The Domestic Politics of International Trade considers the issues surrounding intellectual property rights in international trade negotiations in order to examine the challenges posed to domestic policy-makers by the increasingly broad nature of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).

East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production.

The collection of chapters in Volume 43 Part B of Advances in Econometrics serves as a tribute to Professor M.

This book investigates the important role of local actors in Sierra Leone in helping to foster peace and provide for the needs of vulnerable populations following the end of the civil war.

South Asia's developing nations have been enjoying moderate to high growth over the past decade before the global pandemic of 2020 began.

With the goal of perfecting the national governance system and raising the country's governance capability, this book systematically analyzes the characteristics and trajectory of China's economic expansion and structural adjustment, while also assessing a variety of short-term debt and long-term economic performance and financial risks.