Development economics and emerging economies

First, the book documents the evolution of Asia's infrastructure over the past half-century and reviews existing literature on the role of infrastructure investment in supporting growth and social development.

This study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries.

The financial liberalization thesis emerged in the 1970s and has been of considerable importance ever since, not merely in terms of its theoretical influence but, perhaps more importantly, in terms of its impact on policy makers and policy debates.

This eighth volume offers an overview of modern Jewish history from political, social and cultural perspectives over the period 1815–2000.

The breakup of the Soviet Union and the attempted transformation of Russia into a democracy and a market economy constitute one of the most significant events of our time.

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

This reissue, initially published in 1977, is an introduction to contemporary trading positions and problems of developing countries.

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions.

In the last few decades, Brazilian agriculture has experienced a seismic transformation, and its contradictory facets have fed different and opposing narratives regarding recent changes.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

This volume discusses the current state of knowledge on the conceptual understanding of inequality.

This volume addresses economic challenges and policy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The author considers the implications of deeper integration in the international economy for developing countries.

In light of the growing global economic importance of East Asia, this book analyzes and compares the extraordinary development paths and strategies of Japan, South Korea, and China.

India was one of the better performers after the global financial crisis, and has done well despite opening out in a period of great international volatility.

In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy.

This book provides a definitive account of the recent history of the International Monetary Fund, and the successes it has enjoyed since it was founded.

Megacities of over 10 million inhabitants are unique entities in their own right, both challenging and supporting the policies, governance and cohesion of states.

These previously unpublished papers by leading American and Vietnamese economists analyze the dramatic transformation of Vietnam's economy during the 1990s and its prospects for the future.

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind.

?

This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts.

This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries.

The rise of China is the most significant development in world affairs in this generation.

Considering the increasing importance of renewable energy for climate change mitigation, this book provides an overview of how renewable energy sources are integrated into the grid to promote better understanding among students and business professionals in the utility sector and across industries.

Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in the context of developing countries and is the first systematic study of applying the life-cycle cost approach to assessing allocations.

Liberalization - economic policy reforms to render economies more market-orientated - is a central issue in most countries of the world.

This volume examines the experience of Kazakhstan's transition over the past 30 years, explaining the political and economic performance of the country since the collapse of the USSR, through the country's institutions, policy choices, and external environment.

First published in 1987, Incentives and Economic Systems is a selection of papers presented at the Eighth Arne Ryde Symposium at Frostavallen, Sweden on how institutions attempt to guide individual behaviour by manipulating the social and economic incentive system.

How do we create more economic opportunities in the low-income communities of the developing world?

This volume is the record of a conference held in March 1989 that centered on a departure from the basic U.

For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ways.

Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade.

Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries.

The Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015 examines international debates on including peace and security in the post-2015 development framework.

Electricity is a basic requirement for a modern economy, and transmission grids at the center of transition to a low-carbon power system.

First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and international perspective.

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries.

According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people - mostly children under five - die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services.

Macroeconomics in Context lays out the principles of macroeconomics in a manner that is thorough, up to date, and relevant to students.

First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa's most closely watched economies.

The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness.

This book provides a detailed yet succinct overview of sustainable finance, with a specific focus on its origins, its policy focus and the practitioner dimension.

The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia.

Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa covers both modern theories and empirical analysis, linking monetary policy with relating house wealth, drivers of current account based on asset approach, expenditure switching and income absorption effects of monetary policy on trade balance, effects of inflation uncertainty on output growth and international spill overs.