Development economics and emerging economies

This book examines the role and function of the state in contemporary economics from a number of diverse economic perspectives, including Austrian, feminist, institutionalist, Marxian, radical and Post Keynesian.

Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies.

Thailand is a fast emerging country that aspires to become a high-income economy by 2037.

Recent high-profile corporate scandals-such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan-demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies.

This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.

For several years, the government of Paraguay has sought to address the issue of informality, both as a response to poverty reduction and a means to expand its tax base.

This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Inequality stirs passions across the globe today, figures prominently in political discourse, generates fervid debate and popular protest, and is the theme of widely read scholarly publications.

Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed.

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013.

Despite for many years receiving the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any lasting developmental outcomes and suffer from major weaknesses which undermine their very survival.

For something so essential, strategy is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misapplied, and given the complex challenges facing contemporary organizationsand entire societieswe must grow more and better strategists.

Pushing the frontiers of the new development paradigm, this book guides debates, clarifies new themes and illustrates how the cultural resources of the developing world can become a new way of integrating into the global economy - helping to raise the voices of developing countries, widening the range of creative choices and promoting cultural diversity and economic and human development.

Examines how the emergence of North Korea''s political economy was fundamentally shaped by broader processes of geopolitical contestation.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19.

This new volume of the Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Growth series explores Indonesia's most recent business and economic developments.

This systematic evaluation of Iraq's political economy and human development offers a complex and sophisticated analysis of Iraq's recent history.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

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This book explores a big puzzle in development economics - why Argentina, despite rich natural resources and ample human capital, has endured such poor growth performance.

Sustainable Finance Fundamentals provides an accessible overview of this critical, rapidly growing area at the intersection of finance and sustainability.

This book examines, from the legal perspective, China's process of WTO accession, its commitments to the accession, the implications of such commitments for its trade and legal systems, and its efforts toward WTO compliance.

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth.

This collection supplies fascinating insights into aspects of East Asian economic development.

Ela Bhatt is widely recognized as one of the world's most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development.

An innovative approach to measuring inequality providing the first full integration of distributional and macro level data for the US.

This book outlines key parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related.

This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing.

First published in 1997, this volume looks at the rationale for, the implementation of, and the economic and social effect of the World Bank Structural Adjustment Policy (SAP) in Ghana from the early 1980s to the early 1990s.

This book provides an overview of recent advances in Integrated Community-Managed Development (ICMD) as an innovative strategy for the community-based development of local institutions in order to achieve lasting poverty reduction and empowerment.

'Green-Revolution' technologies have transformed the countryside of many less developed countries.

First published in 1990, Global Capitalism and National Decline is a major contribution to the study of British political and economic decline.

This book provides a detailed and up-to- date analysis of the current and near-future domestic economic situation in China based on the concept of "e;New Normal"e;, which was first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and which is commonly used in discussions on China's current economy.

This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China.

Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance - the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor - in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world.

This book applies a gendered lens to evaluate the dynamic linkages between climate change and livelihoods in developing countries.

Refugees have rarely been studied by economists.

This book presents a new approach to recurrent property taxation based on occupancy, size, and location, that will strengthen local governments.

This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives.

This book focuses on different sustainable products and services, such as electrical vehicles, green buildings, and biophilic and biomimetic systems, at multiple hierarchical levels within its chapters.

Steenkamp introduces the global brand value chain and explains how brand equity factors into shareholder value.

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This volume analyzes the experiences of developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines how they might catch up.

Explains why taxation is a vital topic in explaining weak government in the poorer world.

Originally published in 1984, at a time when international commodity control was brought from the periphery to the centre of international trade policy, this book provided a new and more comprehensive approach to, and an analytical appraisal of, international commodity controls, from their origins in the 1920s to their widespread acceptance as an important element in international trade policy in the 1970s.

African Affairs is the top journal in African Studies and has been for some time.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of neo-liberal and progressive economic reforms and policies implemented in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship.