Development economics and emerging economies

Growth perspectives in emerging market economies are increasingly dependent on international capital flows in recent decades because of their influences on business cycles.

This book explores the regulatory, institutional, and policy frameworks needed to enable the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to be effective.

This book is a rich addition to the existing knowledge on models of development partnership among developing countries.

This collection of articles presents short reflections on various dimensions of development.

A study of environmental degradation, this work presents the environmental problems of South Korea.

What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system?

Economics After the Crisis is an introductory economics textbook, covering key topics in micro and macro economics.

A Brookings Institution Press and Inter-American Development Bank publicationThe poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.

Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing.

This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume offers a comprehensive examination of how innovative financial strategies can address critical environmental and social challenges globally.

The world seems divided to either applaud or fear the rise of China, but this book probes deeper by investigating three aspects of the phenomenon in detail: 1) the institutional dilemmas of the prosperity as it integrates Asian authoritarianism with globalizing capitalism to create economic accomplishments; 2) the political struggles alongside the prosperity as Chinese citizens begin to demand equality, rights, and justice that might be viewed to disturb the continuity of stability and development; and 3) the global implications entailed by the prosperity - not only in power politics, war and peace, or competitions among nations, but especially on global public goods termed "e;human security"e;.

Recent years have seen renewed interest in elites around the world, and their interconnection with power, privilege, social stratification, and social change.

This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades.

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations.

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights.

This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya's Maasai.

In this book, Li Xiaoyun tries to address these questions that attract public attention in today's China.

This book explores the effects of product market and labour market reforms on firms, labour institutions and labour rights in the economic and industrial relations system in India.

Corruption and other governance problems result primarily from processes generated within the domestic political economy.

This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.

Every general manager todayall the way up to the CEOis expected by his or her stakeholders to achieve new breakthroughs in performanceand fast.

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets.

More than twenty years after the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, both national and international actors in governmental and nongovernmental fields are still searching for insights into how sustainable development can be advanced and environmental concerns incorporated into the development agenda more effectively.

This book explores the opportunities and epistemological and structural challenges facing higher education in postcolonial South Africa and argues for a fundamental transformation to meet the needs of the 21st century.

By demonstrating that Western conceptions of 'civil society' have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique argues that it is only through a critical deconstruction of these concepts that we can start to re-balance global power relationships, both in academic discourse and in development practices.

International trade is the core foundation of globalisation.

This book addresses several gaps in knowledge of aid allocation and effectiveness and provides new analytical insights.

The papers presented here were first given at the International Conference of Economists at the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia.

Emphasizing the practical side of Technology and Innovation Management, this book includes significant contributions to the practice of strategizing, management of competences and innovation management.

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Human Security is a development buzzword of the 1990s.

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West.

This book explores the luxury industry and how it has undoubtedly been one of the fastest-growing sectors since the 1970s, and one in which Europe has managed to strengthen its competitiveness in the world market.

This book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits.

An expert's inside look into the ways social entrepreneurship is changing the worldWhether you re a policymaker, investor, or involved in a nonprofit, Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century gives you the knowledge you need to make the best possible decisions for the future.

This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance.

Turkey has experienced growth in both the population and the workforce.

African countries have experienced modest economic recovery during the 1990s.

The new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century.