Development economics and emerging economies

Paradoxically, Japan provides massive amounts of development aid to China, despite Japan's clear perception of China as a prime competitor in the Asia-Pacific region.

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.

This book reflects the futuristic scientific view of the consequences of transition to Industry 4.

Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly.

Katharina Hagemann zeigt beispielhaft anhand des Mobiltelefons, wie es in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten zu Menschenrechtsverletzungen verschiedenster Art und verschiedensten Ausmaßes kommen kann.

This book discusses the policy and public health challenges in Hong Kong from the perspective of economic and social welfare challenges, specifically focusing on the poverty and inequality research supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club  (HKJC) Charities Trust.

This book discusses the Indian economic crisis and brings out what went wrong and the correction necessary for getting the economy back to high growth trajectory, leading to economic transformation.

This book is the first of its kind to highlight the importance of family businesses to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe's trade architecture towards the third world.

Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development.

When conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential.

According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people - mostly children under five - die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services.

One of Africa's major untapped resources is the creativity of its farmers.

In letzter Zeit hat die Öffentlichkeit Bedenken hinsichtlich der Auswirkungen multinationaler Unternehmen aus Schwellenländern geäußert.

This book analyses the household demand for consumer goods using a diverse database, consisting of 45 developed and developing countries.

This volume is the thirteenth in the series on federal government spending and policy performance compiled by Carleton University's School of Public Administration.

This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa.

It is widely felt that the public sector in many developing countries is too large, and that privatisation would benefit both the users of individual services and the economy in general.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of child well-being within the context of Indian states, focusing on the progress made in eight Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets.

Lance Taylor uses structuralist models to examine the issues of short-term fluctuations and long-term growth in developing economies.

This title was first published in 2003.

In December 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics born in violent revolution and dominated for more than six decades by highly authoritarian rule was dissolved by its constituent republics.

This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualise and investigate poverty.

Originally published in 1991, The Economic Organisation of a Financial System develops a descriptive theory of a financial system's organisation and functions and applies the theory of organisational economics to the study of a financial system.

The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998).

Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises?

The word village has the evocative power of ancient shared social values based on solidarity, equality, and common expectations for the betterment of life.

The recent globalization trends have revived a long-standing interest in regional integration in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

For the first time, here is the complete history of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Originally published in 1989, this book is a clear and thorough guide to the workings and purpose of the futures markets.

This is a collection of papers on industrial policy - the role of governments in promoting industrial development - and the particular significance of technology development.

In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization.

This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in North Korea since late 2005, continuing the overview of developments which were covered in the author's North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (Routledge 2006).

A comprehensive, systematic analysis of the North Korean economy, exposing its hidden workings through quantitative data analysis and surveys.

In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing.

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy.

China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly, is having an ever greater impact on the rest of the world.

With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "e;manifesto"e; shows how to account for cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development.

International trade plays a definitive role in the economic growth process.

The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic.

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending.