Development economics and emerging economies

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Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer.

This book is devoted to the analysis of the three main tasks of China's tourism development: Firstly, the theory of tourism development since the initiation of reform and opening-up.

Market Liberalizations and Emigration From Latin America provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the era of liberalization in Latin America, focusing in particular on labor markets and emigration from the region.

Over the last few decades, emerging markets have increased their share in world GDP and have come to play a prominent and growing role in global business.

By looking at the link between trade liberalization and pro-poor growth in Nepal, this book explores how a developing and transition economy can attain higher and pro-poor growth along with the ongoing trend of globalization.

Materiality, Rules and Regulation: New Trend in Management and Organization Studies concentrates on the relationship of rules and regulation to the materiality of artefacts, practices, and organizations.

Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality.

Growth in a Time of Change: Global and Country Perspectives on a New Agenda is the first of a two-book research project that addresses new issues and challenges for economic growth arising from ongoing significant change in the world economy, focusing especially on technological transformation.

This thought-provoking volume presents essays on the foundations of non-equilibrium economics, i.

'A thought-provoking book, bringing readers outside their comfort zones.

Shelton investigates the conditionality regime directed at 'transforming societies' inside EU candidate states.

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional perspectives.

The aim of this book is to present the potential benefits as well as the challenges of introducing a more formal economic regulatory process into the urban water sector arena in lower-income countries.

From 2000 to 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized external aid to finance life-changing services in the global South.

This updated volume provides encyclopaedic information on India in particular and the world in general.

This peer-reviewed volume from the Society for the Study of Business and Finance, discusses current issues in globalization and financial system from an international political and economic perspective.

The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian agriculture.

This book analyzes the monetary and exchange rate policies in Eastern European countries not covered by the current EU enlargement process.

This report, first published in 1977, explores several different approaches to the same question; namely, how severe will be the impact on key U.

Ever since Jim O'Neill at Goldman Sachs coined the term BRICS in 2001 there have been many different assessments of these major emerging economies, with some even proclaiming that the promise of the BRICS (comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is over.

Economists, philosophers, and policy experts from the Global North and South advance the conversation on the ethical dimensions of agency and democracy in development.

Grounded in institutional theories, this volume offers a framework for understanding the evolution of corporate governance in the six leading Latin American countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince.

This book, the third in the Africa: Policies for Prosperity series, is concerned with the challenges of securing economic prosperity in Tanzania over the coming decades.

This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in a large part of the Global South.

Are international and Asian regional institutions serving the development goals of Asian and Pacific Economies as well they should?

This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world.

The book analyzes the recovery process of different industries and sectors from the global health pandemic, as well as its collateral effects.

The Impact of Soviet Shipping (1987) is a detailed analysis of the operations and impact of Soviet shipping.

This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India.

The national recession forced many communities to examine new and innovative ways to promote local economic development, resulting in long-term community changes.

This book makes an innovative, sociologically informed contribution to academic and policy discussions about informal work, skills and training for lifelong learning (LLL) and the promise of decent work and just transitions for sustainable development.

Drawing on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites, Arun Kumar discusses how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time.

Toward a Better World describes the life, times and perspectives of Gerry Helleiner, a Canadian activist and university-based economist, who worked for roughly 40 years with developing countries and international organizations.

This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak.

In order to understand positionality as it relates to research, it is important to learn how to identify and reflect on how knowledge is produced and reproduced.