Development economics and emerging economies

First published in 1987, Agricultural Extension Worldwide presents an international perspective on agricultural extension and highlights extension as an integral function of agricultural development.

This book argues that the reason states become prosperous is more or less effective states.

The contributors to this book examine the conceptual issues relating to the link between conflict and poverty as well as presenting case studies of countries often regarded as 'hot spots' for conflict in Africa.

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This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s.

Trade liberalisation and openness, as linchpins for development have been flagships of conventional economic policy advices to most African countries over the last few decades.

This book investigates how culture reflects change in Zimbabwe, focusing predominantly on Mnangagwa's 2017 coup, but also uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are conceived in the country.

This book seeks to demonstrate the role of public policy in support of equitable and inclusive development.

Knowledge of Africa's complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security.

Nearly 75 million people make up the Millennial generation in the United States, and yet, for many nonprofits, this generation remains an untapped resource.

Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s.

This book is a rich addition to the existing knowledge on models of development partnership among developing countries.

Explores the impact of country and firm specific factors, the role of institutions and governments, the strive for compensation of initial disadvantages and the struggle in finding ways to counterbalance late coming into the international arena in the process of internationalization.

By exploring how financial, legal and wider socio-economic systems can accelerate or decelerate the harmonization in financial markets, this book connects issues both of contemporary political science and accounting research.

This book assesses the effectiveness of free trade agreements (FTAs) in unlocking international business opportunities in member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence.

The purpose of this annual report is to develop an index of good humanitarian donorship that will measure donors' effectiveness against their commitment to the Principles and Good Practise of Humanitarian Donorship.

This is the only annual study of Indonesia's sub-national competitiveness landscape of 34 Indonesian provinces that is conducted impartially and aimed towards Indonesian policymakers as well as the international audience.

Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development.

Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place.

This book provides detailed insight into what governments and institutions can do to drive digital transformation in a nation pursuing economic development.

Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer.

The failure of many of Tanzania's rural development schemes and policies results from their incompatibility with existing agricultural systems.

This volume mainly focuses on the relevance and application of Heckscher-Ohlin Model and Specific Factors Model of trade, while also addressing other latest global issues which are connected with two most celebrated structures of trade models developed by the legendary trade theorist Prof.

This book explores the issues around small business and entrepreneurial activities in Africa within the context of frequent collapse of businesses, seizures by governments, lack of access to capital and raw materials as well as the reliance on the informal sector.

The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies are a positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage.

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent.

The recent collapse of the banking system and instability in the financial markets has dramatically shaken confidence in the global economic order.

Ce manuel propose une démarche pédagogique pour comprendre les trois principales dimensions du développement territorial, soit l’occupation, la gouvernance et l’innovation.

In a first approximation, profit may seem like a simple and intuitive concept, but the definition is not limited to a single conceptual category.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed research papers presented at the joint IV ASOCIO/XIX IISE Region 16 Conference held in Chia and Bogota, Colombia.

Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines.

This volume offers fresh insights into economic development and growth in emerging economies.

Dr Preston's book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis.

Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China.

China's urban population growth rate has doubled in the past 20 years and the Chinese government has made further urbanization a developmental priority.

Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries.

This book presents a scientific view of fighting climate change in the economy of the future, the foundations of which are being set around the world.

An authoritative examination of how small firms in developing countries acquire technological capability - the knowledge and skills required to operate technology effectively and to adapt it to local conditions.

Eversince the publication of Information India in the year 1989 the handy yearbook has been considered as a mini information software in print, rather than a book.

This book addresses the socio-economic impacts of rapid economic development due to a global mining boom.

This book moves away from the orthodox neoliberal paradigm to suggest a new framework linking social policy with citizenship and transformation.

This book examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political development.

Despite its utmost importance, the issue of industrial development has been largely neglected in the literature for the last few decades.

Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends.

An increase in the global population has led to a higher demand for food, besides complicating environmental, economic, and social issues.

Groundwater is being depleted on a large scale in many arid and semi-arid parts of the world.