Development economics and emerging economies

This book examines the process of information diffusion and the challenges of spreading awareness about maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes in India, with a special focus on Bihar - a state in eastern India.

The Innovation and Sustainability in Base of the Pyramid Markets series comprises four volumes, covering theoretical perspectives, themes, and various aspects of interest across four key geographical regions where Base of the Pyramid (BOP) markets are located - Latin America, Asia, Africa, and affluent countries.

This book evaluates African Special Economic Zones from the perspective of learning from China's experiences with such Zones and the impact of Chinese policy and investment on African Zones.

Issues relating to employment and labour have once again come to the fore of global policy debates in the wake of the widespread unemployment that has accompanied the current financial crisis.

This book offers a new perspective on the economics of globalization, based on the concepts of firms' capabilities as the immediate cause of countries' wealth.

Korea's economic success has inspired numerous studies and research projects in past decades.

This book examines Latin America''s distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism, characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets.

Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan.

The term BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is gaining global attention both in scholarly and popular discourse.

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty.

The book  establishes a philosophical base for the economic principles of Irish republicanism in the 21st century.

As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation.

This comprehensively revised and updated edition develops the themes presented in the first edition.

The OECD Regional Outlook 2011 provides an overview of the main developments in performance among OECD regions and the challenges for regional policy after the crisis.

First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.

This fascinating and ambitious book proposes a new strategy ("e;the Ramo Plan"e;) to tackle the current global socioeconomic crisis.

Handbook of Economic Stagnation takes a broad view, including contributions from orthodox and heterodox economists who examine situations in countries and worldwide regions, including Japan and the Euro area.

First published in 1980, Wealth and The Wealthy in the Modern World looks at the careers of the very wealthy and the extent of wealth-holding and wealth distribution in the major Western nations since the Industrial Revolution.

Traces an important shift in international development policy as global institutions have become preoccupied with policy failure.

This book examines the role of institutions in China's recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation.

Modernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through technology and effective government through rational, social organization.

Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries, this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates, maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions.

This book presents empirical observations and theoretical thinking of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economy.

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of eGovernance for Development projects.

This volume focuses on the latest findings concerning financial environment research and the effects on business.

Sustainable Banking introduces business leaders and students to the many ways in which financial institutions can manage their environmental and social impact and meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations.

This books examines economic conditions and policies in Sweden.

This book explores the issues and challenges of gender and development in Africa.

Malaysia's 40-year strategy of 'poverty eradication' has met with a great deal of success, yet has caused controversy for its links to ethnically-oriented social restructuring.

Regional integration was identified many years ago as being critical to Africa's quest to overcome its colonially induced underdevelopment.

The events of 11 September have strengthened the conviction that a world without violence, terrorism and conflict also means a world freed from exclusion, vulnerability and inequality, a world where opportunities exist for all.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels.

Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last three decades.

This interdisciplinary volume addresses the special challenges that middle-income countries confront from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.

This book investigates the population and labour management reforms implemented since the reform and opening up of China in the early 1980s, giving insights into the economic and social implications of these reforms and future prospects for population governance.

This book investigates the population and labour management reforms implemented since the reform and opening up of China in the early 1980s, giving insights into the economic and social implications of these reforms and future prospects for population governance.

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lived in cities.

This volume examines the controversy surrounding the use of competition law to combat excessive pricing.

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s.

The term 'structural adjustment' has been associated with rioting as angry and hungry masses protest food price increases due to subsidy cuts or due to other structural adjustment conditions prescribed by the IMF and the World Bank.