Development economics and emerging economies

This book is the culmination of a lifetime of research into Chinese development, situated in a global historical context.

This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015.

This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South-South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore.

This book focuses on the gradual reform of Chinese society since China's opening up to the world, and gives a unified explanation of the process based on bargaining theory.

This textbook serves as an introduction to the major economic topics and events in Latin America's history, from the settling of the region by indigenous Americans and then Europeans, Africans and Asians, to the economic consequences of COVID-19.

This book proposes an alternative approach to understanding development and discusses the possibilities of alternative development in the age of global capitalism from a socio-cultural perspective.

This book discusses wide topics related to current issues in economic growth and development, international trade, macroeconomic and financial stability, inflation, monetary policy, banking, productivity, agriculture and food security.

This volume explores the challenges to diversification in Gulf countries, which can no longer rely on profits from hydrocarbons to fund national expenditures.

This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales down to the village level.

This book focuses on the restructuring of distressed businesses, emphasizing the need for new financing during the restructuring process as well as during relaunch, and examines the role of law in encouraging creditor confidence and incentivizing lending.

This book examines the role of institutions in China's recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation.

This book analyzes the changing dynamics of competition and the emergence of deglobalization trends and processes.

Emerging economies arguably have different socio-fiscal dynamics compared to developed economies.

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation.

Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals.

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation.

This book describes specific problems and proposes solutions for different areas of finance in Central and Southeastern European countries.

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India's economic growth.

This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest "e;emerging countries"e;.

This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses to sustainable development, from a distance education perspective.

This book takes a fresh look at current issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) with a special focus on emerging economies.

This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in developing and transitional countries around the world.

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today's linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible.

This volume presents studies from experts in twelve industries, providing insights into the future role of innovation and entrepreneurship in driving economic growth across sectors.

This book analyses the state of development of Muslims at the regional level.

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.

This book comprehensively investigates the challenges to Myanmar's access to the global market.

This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm.

This book approaches the issue of rural-urban inequality through fieldwork conducted in a specific township (Zuogang) in Qinggang County, part of Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China.

This book examines the concept of 'development' from alternative perspectives and analyzes how different approaches influence law.

This book examines the various issues and concerns faced by Indian agriculture under the obligations of WTO and the Free Trade Agreements.

China has initiated and implemented its economic reforms for over 30 years, however, the comprehensive economic reforms and opening up is still unfolding.

First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of 'specificity', general theory and social change.

Taiwan's economic growth since the 1970s has roots in its pre-war development and post-war formation of the Pacific trade triangle.

Economic and social development is and will be the main task in the long run in China, and development is the basis and key to solve the problems faced.

This book presents a collection of articles addressing a range of marketing strategies unique to emerging economies.

With the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in December 2015, ASEAN is at a crossroads once again.

This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute introduces a new ease of doing business index that aims to allow for a better approximation of ease of doing business conditions in India's sub-national economies.

This book intends to make sense of how Chinese leaders perceive China's rise in the world through the eyes of China's international relations (IR) scholars.

This is the only annual study of Indonesia's sub-national competitiveness landscape of 34 Indonesian provinces that is conducted impartially and aimed towards Indonesian policymakers as well as the international audience.

This book analyzes the industrialization process of Jianshanxia, a mountain village in Zhejiang Province, and its organizational changes since China's reform and opening-up.

This book provides a timely update on the ongoing transformation of the Chinese economy.

This book is an update of the competitiveness rankings for Greater China economies at the sub-national and regional level with the latest available data.

This book offers an in-depth case study of Romania's land and agricultural reforms from mid-19th century and up to 2000, offering a historical account of agricultural reforms in post-communist Romania in the light of more than a century of social and economic development experiments.

A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.

The law of balance is not just a motivating power but also serves the purpose of development.

Indonesia's diverse economic landscape and growing importance in the global and regional stages warrant deeper understanding of the economy at sub-national levels.

Foundations of the Future examines the geo-economic and geo-strategic implications of a growing global 'battle' to promote infrastructural connectivity across and between continents of the world.

This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific.

Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels.