Development economics and emerging economies

This book covers three main areas, namely the pharmaceuticals industry, the telecommunications sector and the banking sector, with a focus on manufacturing and service.

This book considers the impact of multinational companies in China on the Chinese economy and on indigenous firms in China.

Over the years, a shortage of funds has resulted in a huge deficit in government budgets for infrastructure, especially in developing economies.

This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive.

This book presents a critical reassessment of theories of property rights, in response to conflicts and competition between different groups, and the state.

The crisis of 2008 ended the illusion of a golden era in which many people imagined that prosperity and political calm would continue to spread indefinitely.

This book provides a comprehensive history of Brazilian agricultural economic development between 1890 and 1950.

This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan.

Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions.

As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India.

Firmly rooted in the International Political Economy (IPE) tradition, this book addresses the negative consequences of globalisation, what is termed here the 'dark side of globalisation'.

The Growth of Chinese Electronics Firms outlines the way firms grow in China at an organizational level.

In this analysis of the roots and objectives of Chinese economic and industrial policy, Mastel outlines the implications of China's rise for the world economy.

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development.

The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before.

This book is a compendium of papers on various new movements that emerged after the Asian financial crisis, which lead to Asia becoming the enhanced growth center of the world.

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant.

This book is a treatise on cultural globalization and the global political economy.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the use and effects of foreign languages in advertising.

A comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms and shows how they can be used to analyze the growth process and growth policy design.

Economics tends to teach that developed countries have good institutions while developing countries do not, and that this is the factor that constrains the latter's growth.

Brings together the research of world-class commentators on China from across Europe to explore the policy aspects of the China-EU relationship.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s but what happens when we no longer have the MDGs - what will guide policy after 2015?

As developing countries become increasingly important in the international economy, there is an urgent need to reassess U.

The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda.

Although the world is saturated with extraordinary methods, innovation, and technology, the Caribbean seems to have been left behind in the sustainable growth of global development.

This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present.

China's spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth.

'A sure-footed and self-confident book, ambitious in scope, authoritative in execution and practical in its implications' - Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute, London'At last, a development studies text that encourages self-reflection from within the discipline.

This book explores the disconnect between fiscal policy and macroeconomic development in South Africa.

The essays collected in World in Motion all address the same issue: The global paradox that modern prosperity has entailed extreme environmental degradation.

This book analyzes the impact of technology in emerging markets by considering conditions and the history of how it has changed the way of working and market development in such contexts.

This book provides exclusive information on how agribusinesses could act as the springboard for inclusive economic growth critical for socioeconomic transformation of Africa.

What people are saying about The New How"e;How are you going to get rid of your Air Sandwich if you don't even know what it is?

Originally published in 1984, this book grew out of the papers (and discussions) presented at the Seminar conducted at London Business School during March-June 1983, with a focus on the problems of public enterprise in the context of the developing world.

Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies.

Factor Supply and Substitution, the second in a three-volume study entitled Trade and Employment in Developing Countries, extends the analysis of trade regimes and employment both in depth for single countries and through cross-country analyses.

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This is a teaching companion to the case studies provided in the book 'Strategic Marketing Cases in Emerging Markets' and is intended to help teachers and trainers follow a pedagogic line by using the case studies to develop a critical understanding of the service business scenarios and strategies for marketing in emerging markets.

This volume explores the dynamics of urbanisation in Northeast India.

This book deals with leadership trends in the next decade and beyond.

This book explores Jamaica's contemporary relationship with the International Monetary Fund since 2010.

Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy In January 1964, in his first State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson announced a declaration of "e;unconditional war"e; on poverty.