Development economics and emerging economies

The book provides the analytical framework as well empirical analysis of the development of services GVC in the ASEAN and East Asian region.

Demystifying Talent Management questions the explanation of talent, that anyone who has 'more' has a talent, and demonstrates how the term 'talent' has become an empty signifier.

Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal share many characteristics, including a common language, fertile land, abundant rainfall, year-round warmth, and a dense population.

The theme of this book is that economic growth is key, but institutions and other national and subnational attributes matter as well.

Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle.

Originally published in 1981, this book analyses how development aid works in practice.

Despite various reform efforts, Mexico has experienced economic stability but little growth.

The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century socialist models.

India is the fastest growing and the world's third-largest economy in terms of GDP in PPP terms.

Is knowledge an economic good?

China and India, the two largest developing countries, are developing rapidly both inside themselves and towards global markets.

Why have the economies of some developing countries fallen back while others have advanced?

This volume explores Iran's industrial and trade policy options for achieving sustainable, export-oriented, and pro-employment growth.

International debt relief continues to be a highly controversial subject.

Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it.

This definitive work mixes case law, public policy, economic strategy, and examines the wide range of issues facing efforts to improve the American economy, to illustrate how economic growth is driven through strong public-private partnerships, and how successful growth strategies from the state and local level operate to grow jobs.

This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.

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 insightful and original book explores the key issues that countries in Africa and South Asia need to address in order to escape poverty.

This handbook presents a comprehensive study of the post-reform Indian economy, three decades after the economic liberalization started in the early 1990s.

In the world's developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power - from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment.

China's Economic Development and Democratization examines China's transformation from an institutional perspective.

In the early 1990s, financial liberalization started in India, and it was thought that such reforms would increase economic growth.

Focusing on the dichotomous and comparative analysis of the legitimacy, paradigm, and operating frames of bank governance and its reproduction in the new financial regime following the global financial crisis, this book examines in depth how corporate governance in bank institutions is legitimized, justified, and delivered in diversified financial models and their influences on the Chinese banking industry.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the rapidly evolving COVID-19, increasing population growth, and exponential expansion in demand for agricultural commodities are putting pressure on available resources, thereby posing immense challenges to the region's capacity to achieve nutritional security related to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A comprehensive, non-technical guide to leveraging website localization strategies for global e-commerce success.

This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa.

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.

Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.

Entrepreneurship is a key element in the development of market based economies and one of the potential drivers of change in countries that are in the process of transformation to market based systems.

At the beginning of the 21st Millennium, outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists make a timely assessment as to the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading?

Neoliberalism is based on the systematic use of state power to impose, under the veil of 'non-intervention', a hegemonic project of recomposition of capitalist rule in most areas of social life.

Originally published in 1985, this book analyses the extent and way in which technological change determines the utilisation of labour in less developed economies.

Development largely depends on how given places participate in global economic processes.

In the last decade, regionalism appears to have emerged as a major new force in the world.

This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account.

This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991.

This book takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions: tenure decision, gentrification, place attachment, housing bubbles, housing wealth, and residential satisfaction.

The number of immigrants in the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and among recipients of advanced STEM degrees at US universities has increased in recent decades.

The intensive research coupled with public silence during the last decade of Marx's life represented a new, theoretical 'post-Capital' threshold.

Improved understanding of the key role of financial aspects in the growth and development of economic systems is an important aspect of economic analysis.

Over the past decade there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the "e;North"e;, while many of the developing countries of the "e;South"e; have experienced some improvement.

Originally published in 1983.