Development economics and emerging economies

During the period 1965 to 1990 East Asia was the world's fastest growing region.

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy.

Latin America consists of a diverse set of countries that nonetheless face common political, economic and social problems; in particular, high inequality and volatile growth which have contributed to high levels of poverty.

This book takes a holistic approach to explore how business is being conducted in China and India, and to analyze the factors that influence business decisions in present times.

This book is a revision of the author's original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a widening array of possible reapplications in other community development fields.

Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation.

Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.

This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Ryan focuses on four broad issue areas -- the organization and role of the state sector, price policy, relations with the bourgeoisie, and agrarian reform.

Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and action towards the realization of agricultural development outcomes.

This book contributes to growing literature on the role of business groups in the development of corporate sector and contains perspectives from the Indian economy.

The beginning of the twenty first century has been characterized by the expansion of economics, politics and institutional relations.

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "e;global(izing)"e; city are creating more division between social classes, not less.

A controversial, wide ranging and clearly documented survey of the state of the global environment.

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments.

What do we know about economic development in Africa?

This report is a partial result of the China's Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University.

This book analyzes the emerging concepts and theories of inclusiveness in business by explaining corporate social responsibility, social learning, and value co-creation, as critical elements to the success of firms.

The study deals with challenging questions of long-term future of global economy and the mankind.

Global polycrisis refers to the simultaneous occurrence of multiple interconnected crises.

Experiences of Emerging Economy Firms investigates the different elements of the experiences of emerging economy firms and sheds essential light on a large variety of aspects associated with their functioning in both home and host contexts.

This handbook provides an overview on major developments that occurred in the field of economic sociology after its rebirth since the 1980s in the US.

The book explores the pressing problem of rural violence in contemporary Nigeria by assessing the changing patterns of conflict and response across the country.

The relationship between technology and development is explored by economists, policy analysts and other experts.

Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant progress on climate change.

A balance sheet of thirty years of revolutionary experiment, this work is a comprehensive analysis of the failure of the socialist transformation of Egypt during the regimes of Nasser and Sadat.

The Macroeconomics of Developing Countries provides a comprehensive discussion of the exogenous factors and macroeconomic policies that affect the business cycle, long term growth, and distribution of income in developing countries.

This book introduces ethnoeconomics, explaining how cultural, social, and historical factors influence economic behavior and decision-making.

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch.

E-Government in Asia offers a thorough examination of e-governance in Asia, including the uses of the Internet to mediate interactions between Asian governments and their citizens.

This book aims to reveal the dynamic mechanism of China's economic system innovation.

An unacknowledged key feature of East Asian FTA diplomacy is the region's active cross-regional preferential trading relations.

Examines the borderline between traditional economic theory and the particular problems of developing countries.

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times.

This book brings together new studies on regional disparities in the provision and maintenance of health in Asia.

This book focuses on the competitive situation and policy outlook of China's provincial economy in the 13th five-year period.

Government budgets in a planned economy are instruments of social and economic change in underdeveloped countries.

Focusing on the sinking of the Sewol, a commercial ferry which capsized off the South Korean coast in April 2014, this book considers key issues of disaster, governance, civil society and the ideational transformation of human agents and their empowerment.

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right.

This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale.

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession.

Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate.

For some twenty-five years after 1949, China did not exist and the country was only rediscovered in the 1970s.