Development economics and emerging economies

China is currently encountering increasing social problems, together with the rise of mass discontent and public protest, despite having achieved enormous economic growth after nearly thirty years of market socialism and embracing globalization.

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa.

This book discusses five critical game changer models linking local area transfer of technology to revamp innovation for social entrepreneurship for growth and acceleration, social ubiquity, and global accessibility of markets to entrepreneurship in a digital interface.

This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Technology, Society, and Conflict comprehensively studies and systematically highlights technological inequalities as a source of conflict in digital development while developing an economic and legal approach to resolving them.

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies.

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality.

Economic transformation in traditional development economics refers to the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial one.

In line with rapid world economic growth, globalization has led to a decrease in global income inequality, according to the World Bank.

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This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial development based on the KAIZEN management training experiments conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Tanzania.

Africa is endowed with commercially viable quantities of several minerals and metals, and, more than ever before, African countries wish to harness their mineral resources for their economic development.

This updated new edition explores the techniques used to assess the economic impact of projects in developing countries.

This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to social inclusion and sustainability, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities.

Lessons in Sustainable Development from Japan and South Korea provides a concise overview of sustainable development in Japan and South Korea.

The ideological foundations of the contributors range from personalized neo-Marxism, through "e;extreme centre"e; neo-Keynesianism, to hard-line neoclassical mathematical economics.

Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains.

China Development Research Foundation is one the leading economic think tanks in China, providing a base where many leading Chinese economists have developed the details of Chinese economic reform.

This book examines the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the transformation of tax audit in the context of innovative development of the economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world.

Ragged Trousered NGOs is a compelling first-hand account of the NGO sector and wider civil society over the past 40 years, examining how and why people take collective action and engage in social development projects.

For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

No detailed description available for "e;The Impact of State Restructuring on Indonesia's Regional Economic Convergence"e;.

Much of the discussion of Russia's recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views.

Interpretative history of development and management studies that explains how non-governmental actors acquired prominence as private actors offering market-based solutions.

In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey.

A growing number of people in the world have embraced globalization and actively seek opportunities to live, study, and work in other cultures.

Based on the suggestions made by the speakers of Plenary Session IV "e;Ch- lenges to the management of water resources and to countering deserti cation in the Mediterranean region"e; during the 15th Economic and Environmental Forum, the OCEEA proposed to organize a workshop on "e;Water Scarcity, Land Degra- tion and Deserti cation in the Mediterranean region - Environment and Security Aspects"e;.

Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and his colleagues have helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues and clients, and to refocus their own professional and personal aspirations.

This book provides new insights into combining economic theory and ethics, and how to formulate policies to combat the roots of poverty.

Exploring the elements that constitute the perceived luxuriousness of a brand, this book addresses the changing definitions of the term 'luxury' in today's world.

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare economic weaknesses throughout the Caribbean region, and humane standards of living are at risk.

Since the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1942), it has been assumed that innovations typically play a key role in firms' competitiveness.

Migration - both within and between countries - is increasingly one of the world's most important policy issues.

As the preeminent international development agency for the past sixty years, the World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise.

China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of Chinese business in the continent.

This book focuses on the economic challenges India has been facing since its independence in 1947.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

This book provides a political economy perspective on Chile's contemporary economic development, explaining the different stages of Chile's neoliberal pattern of economic integration into the global economy from 1973 to 2015.

This volume mainly focuses on the relevance and application of Heckscher-Ohlin Model and Specific Factors Model of trade, while also addressing other latest global issues which are connected with two most celebrated structures of trade models developed by the legendary trade theorist Prof.

In a unique undertaking, Andrew Yuengert explores and describes the limits to the economic model of the human being, providing an alternative account of human choice, to which economic models can be compared.

The 'Everything But Arms' (EBA) regulation of the European Union (EU) has been hailed as a groundbreaking initiative for developing countries.

Based on extensive original research in the Republic of Tatarstan, in the Central Volga region of Russia, this book examines the economic development path followed by Tatarstan since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Russian financial crash of 1998.