Development economics and emerging economies

This book provides an innovative theoretical and empirical exploration of the political participation and democratic capability of people living in authoritarian states.

Low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa present unique monetary policy challenges, from the high share of volatile food in consumption to underdeveloped financial markets; however most academic and policy work on monetary policy is aimed at much richer countries.

Great-power conflict and great-power war are still the most dangerous risks the international community is facing today.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Gibt es Grenzen des ökonomischen Wachstums?

Feeding our globally expanding population is one of the most critical challenges of our time and improving food and agricultural production efficiencies is a key factor in solving this problem.

This highly successful text has been updated and revised to take account of new developments in international political economy, notably the East Asian crisis, and the deepening crisis of African society.

Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century?

The book examines the supply chain from different perspectives: the physical structure which it is composed of (actors, roles, infrastructures and processes), the organizational structure of the people involved (business functions and related interactions and integrations), and the manifold flows that characterize it (product flows, information flows, service flows and monetary flows).

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide.

The book presents a comprehensive and incisive analysis of Structural transformation which is among the most relevant and crucial themes of contemporary economics.

This book explores the controversial Anglo-American struggle over empire and economic globalization in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

First published in 1980, this book collects 17 lectures presented at the annual conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics covering a wide range issues and debates.

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent.

This book offers cross-national evidence of the effectiveness of financial and physical incentives for regional development.

Die internationale Geschäftstätigkeit ist für die Unternehmen, die davon berührten Länder und die Weltwirtschaft zum Schlüsselfaktor des Erfolgs geworden.

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.

This is the first major historical study of Tanzania''s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75.

La gestión moderna de inventarios contempla las diferentes modalidades que componen la estructura logística actual como factores claves de éxito y muestra cómo se convierte en una herramienta indispensable para que las empresas sean competitivas y eficientes en el entorno actual de grandes avances tecnológicos, alta competencia y mayores necesidades de satisfacción al cliente.

In Vietnam, international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora are quantitatively significant and contribute important economic inputs.

This collection of different views on how digitalization is influencing various industrial sectors addresses essential topics like big data and analytics, fintech and insuretech, cloud and mobility technologies, disruption and entrepreneurship.

Weshalb ist der Süden – vulgo "Dritte Welt" oder "Entwicklungsländer" – arm?

The contributors investigate policy paradigms and their ability to explain the policy process actors, ideas, discourses and strategies employed to provide readers with a better understanding of public policy and its dynamics.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

This book seeks to clarify the positive and negative lessons in the experiences of late development under neoliberal globalization.

Tourism Marketing for Developing Countries examines media strategies used by destinations in Asia, the Middle East and Africa to battle stereotypes, negative images and crises in order to attract tourists .

Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been recognised as having an advantage in delivering programs and interventions amongst communities of the same faith.

This second edition studies the economic reasons for the existence of a variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local.

In this book, Ed A.

Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) have witnessed great upheaval and change over the last decade and a half - from the global economic recession of 2008, the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti, to hurricanes that devastated islands like Jamaica, Barbuda, Dominica and The Bahamas, volcanic eruptions, and health crises.

The principal themes pursued in this book emerge from the great transformation that the Latin American and the Caribbean economies experienced in the aftermath of both the foreign debt crisis of 1982 and the macroeconomic stabilisation policies that vividly and painfully produced the so-called "e;lost decade"e; of the 1980s.

After three decades of privatization and anti-state rhetoric, government ownership and public management are back in vogue.

This book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment in the Global South.

This book explains supply chain management (SCM) using the strategy-structure-process-performance (SSPP) framework.

For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other.

Judith A.

This book presents the latest findings on the impact of capital flows and foreign direct investments (FDI) on macroeconomic variables and financial development of emerging markets.

This book discusses the role of capital markets and investment banking in Nigeria, the largest frontier market economy in the world by both population size and gross domestic product.

This book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa.

The primary questions addressed by this study, first published in 1988, focus on how private bankers made decisions on the creditworthiness of developing countries during the 1970s and what the implications of these decision rules are for the developing countries today.

For the past fifteen years Peru has suffered a profound and lasting economic crisis that threatens the stability of the country's fragile democratic system.

The Horn of Africa has long been one of the most dynamic and politically turbulent sub-regions on the African continent.

Capacity building is a topic of intense focus in many industrialized countries.

In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization.

Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary analytical tool kit.

One of the leading texts in the field, The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of economics in these industries, helping you to enjoy and pass an economics module as part of tourism, recreation, events or sport management degrees.