Development economics and emerging economies

Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries.

Both the European Union and Japan have been major beneficiaries and supporters of the liberal international order, first led by the United States since the end of World War II.

For a long time the topic of national development banks was limited to a debate between admirers and detractors of these institutions, often inserted into a more general debate of state versus markets.

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora.

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction.

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades.

This book discusses the use, economic importance and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in public and private Sudanese universities.

This book pays tribute to Professor Kirit Parikh through contemporary essays from experts on energy, climate change including mitigation and adaptation, agriculture, food procurement, water resources, and public health.

This book explores the increased necessity of organizations to encourage human talent in the globalized economy, with particular emphasis on the impact in Eastern Europe.

This book addresses the paradox between preponderance of hunger in a continent that is well endowed with fertile agricultural land, plenty of fresh water and a vibrant labor force.

This book highlights the basic principles of monetary economics and their application to developing countries.

As the United States slowly disengages from the Middle East and Europe faces internal challenges, a new actor is quietly exerting greater influence across North Africa: China.

Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades.

Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book.

Throughout the twentieth century Taiwan was viewed as a model - whether in terms of a model colony, a model China or a development model.

Reconciling regionalism and multilateralism is a challenge common to all branches of global economic governance.

The integration of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe into the EU is one of the success stories of European development.

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today.

The books in this series aim to reflect the enormous economic and political changes that small and medium-sized nations in East and South-East Asia have been undergoing in the 1970s and 1980s and to show the impact of these changes on the world economy.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

After WWII, the United States of America proposed their way of life, based on an unlimited consumption of land, goods, and energy, as a model for the entire world.

Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globallyCorruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it.

Colleges on the Brink is about the financial crises many colleges are facing in the post-pandemic era and how they can be resolved.

This book provides a detailed review of the accumulated experience and lessons from China's agricultural reform and opening-up since the late 1970s, examining various aspects of this transition and providing a new perspective that can contribute to developing economic theories.

Emerging economies, as actively changing societies, invoke questions about the future direction for national and global development as well as equitable economic growth.

The book provides an institutional, historical, and sectorial analysis of Argentina's structural corruption.

One of the driving forces in catalyzing sustainable development interventions is systems accountability.

The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.

This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template.

Focusing on Kenya's path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects.

L'État du Yucatan au Mexique est connu entre autres pour ses nombreux sites archéologiques, silencieux témoins de la gloire passée des Mayas.

Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africa's tourism trajectory and future.

George Bernard Shaw once said that reasonable people adapt themselves to the world but unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves.

Food security is a pressing concern in the Caribbean.

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded.

Unmanned Aerial Systems in Agriculture: Eyes Above Fields bridges the gap between knowledge of concept and real-world use and operations of UASs in agri-production.

The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements.

Pacific Asia - from Burma to Papua New Guinea to Japan - is the most dynamic and productive region in the developing world, the result of an economic explosion fuelled by industrial activity.

Tackles the politically sensitive, complex issues of climate change, development and development cooperation, offering theoretical, political, and practical perspectives.

This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo.

The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) encompasses the legislative text and political resolutions regulating fiscal policy and public finances in EMU.

First published in 1999, this volume, the first to be published in on Jubilee 2000, describes the plight of 52 of the poorest nations in the world and puts in detail the case for radical cancellation of past inert debt.