This book examines the failure of economic reform in Russia since 1991, when Boris Yeltsin proclaimed his commitment to economic stabilization, privatization, and price liberalization.
This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world's people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law.
This book offers a strong contribution to the growing field of institutional economics, going beyond the question of why institutions matter and examines the ways in which different types of institutions are conducive to the enhancement of competitiveness and economic development.
With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century.
This is the most in-depth study of the economic partnership between the European Union and the CARIFORUM countries, a group of fifteen small developing economies in the Caribbean.
La obra estudia los cambios ocurridos en los factores impulsores del crecimiento económico con la transición de la era industrial a la era del conocimiento, en la cual el conocimiento y las redes han llegado a ser los factores claves de la competitividad de las empresas.
This volume deals with a range of contemporary issues in Indian and other world economies, with a focus on economic theory and policy and their longstanding implications.
The effective use of development economic theories in practice is limited, the authors contend, by the lack of explicit criterion for judging their scientific content.
This book analyses one of the most controversial areas in the political economy of international trade, namely the issues surrounding the creation of newtrade rules.
A structural overview of the new field of management geography including globalization, embeddedness of MNEs, networking, hybridization, regional economies, technology, acculturation, internationalization, IHRM and implications for management and government.
This book looks at the state of governance in countries of Developing Asia, ie, the poorer countries in the region and those with inadequate creditworthiness and with risk of debt stress.
This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy.
This book describes six months of initial intensive activities within a motivating multidisciplinary project to achieve sustainable social, economic, and environmental revitalization in the historic core of Multan City, Pakistan.
Now expanded to cover the consequences of Russia's 1998 financial collapse, this book focuses on the social consequences of a modern-day great depression.
This book proposes the theory and practice of endogenous development that helps to analyze economic dynamics and works within a context of continuous economic, technological, and institutional transformations.
This volume presents selected articles from the 21st Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which was held in Budapest (Hungary) in 2017.
The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all, with 'no one left behind'.
This book provides a critical perspective on several interconnected themes that relate to the implementation of both domestic and international environmental standards.
Sustainable finance involves making investment decisions that consider not only financial returns, but also environmental, social, and governance factors.
Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine.