Development economics and emerging economies

Logistics are a critical element for country competitiveness and economic performance, including poverty reduction.

This book offers new perspectives on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region.

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.

A much-needed examination of the impact of neo-liberalism in East Asia in the years since the 1997 to 1998 Asian Economic Crisis.

This book provides insight into the economic partnerships between African governments and China offered by the Belt and Road Initiative.

This book is a timely reminder of the more fundamental determinants of capital accumulation and innovation.

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.

In organizations today, there is a growing sense that complexity is increasing while our ability to deal with it is not.

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.

Explores the combination of capital''s changing composition and labour''s subjective agency.

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.

to establish impact, attributing observed changes in welfare to the intervention, while identifying key factors of success.

Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a “Blue Revolution” has taken place in global aquaculture.

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.

The financial crash of 2008 led people all over the world to ask how far financiers are in control of our lives.

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.

The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness?

This book explores trends in migration from Bulgaria to Switzerland since Bulgaria joined the European Union (EU) in 2007.

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 second edition textbook shows how macroeconomic models for industrial countries may be applied to emerging and developing economies.

When aid to the Third World actually works it is usually on such a small scale that it makes little impact on the world's problems.

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.

This book links theoretical discussions about globalization and the distribution of wealth with a rich empirical analysis of Latin America.

As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a good time to reflect on its past as well as look to the future.

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.

A highly original book that provides policy solutions for development challenges, framing them with insightful and inventive allegories.

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'.

In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the pastand futureof global agriculture.

The world economy is caught in a money trap.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

This book provides a critical perspective on several interconnected themes that relate to the implementation of both domestic and international environmental standards.

India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world.

What is driving recent growth in OECD countries?

Sustainable finance involves making investment decisions that consider not only financial returns, but also environmental, social, and governance factors.

The digital economy is a new direction in which the modern global economic system is now heading.

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.