Development economics and emerging economies

Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies.

Microeconomics in Context lays out the principles of microeconomics in a manner that is thorough, up to date, and relevant to students.

Marwick argues that economic development in Scotland was severely delayed until the 18th Century unlike neighbouring countries.

The last two and a half decades witnessed China's epoch-making economic growth and great social changes, which indicates the commence of China's national rejuvenation after a near two centuries-long stagnant or backward period.

This book deconstructs a series of myths surrounding China's economic rise.

In The Turn of the Tortoise, T N Ninan explores the paradox of a "e;premature superpower"e; (as Martin Wolf once described India in the Financial Times).

In a time of persistent uncertainty, fragile eco-structures, the politics of "e;populism,"e; and limits in institutional leadership, The Caribbean on the Edge acts as an analytical roadmap to a challenging era of globalization for the countries on the edge of history in the Caribbean, those often at a policy standstill pondering which way and how to turn.

Big data is increasingly regarded as a new approach for understanding urban informatics and complex systems.

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on the political and social perspectives that commons offer, how they are appropriated or suppressed by capital and state, and how social initiatives and movements contest these dynamics or build their struggles on commoning.

Emerging market countries are currently facing a dual challenge.

This book brings together contributions that explore various dimensions of the pandemic from a long-term development perspective.

Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation.

This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE).

Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings is a collaborative edited book that aims to introduce the reader to experiences of using the technology in providing mental health care, education and Capacity building approaches in resource limited settings around the globe.

Since 2001 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been engaged in a three-fold transition process towards liberalisation, democratisation, and peace.

This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible.

The social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and of extreme climate events have brought into sharp relief the serious deficiencies of our political economies.

Achieving a new integration of Africa into the world economy in the neoliberal era prompts discussion of the success and failure of economic policies undertaken so far in African countries; And how to address the factors that currently hamper Africa's development in a globalized economy.

This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict.

This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo's writings in different languages.

The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

This book analyzes spatial and temporal patterns of international trade from a geographical perspective.

This reissue, initially published in 1977, is an introduction to contemporary trading positions and problems of developing countries.

A guide to the experiences economic reform since the second world war, and system reform and economic integration across the world in the past decade.

Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a “Blue Revolution” has taken place in global aquaculture.

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago.

Drawing on the experiences of more than 100 developing country negotiators and the insights of leading academic studies, this guide brings together practical advice and lessons on ways to negotiate effectively with larger parties, and avoid common pitfalls.

Migration has assumed growing significance in the global development agenda as its potential for economic and social development is increasingly acknowledged.

Focuses on economic mobility and inequality, discussing the ''Great Gatsby Curve'', the relationship between mobility and inequality.

The private sector has an important role in poverty reduction in Asia.

This book explores the theoretical and practical challenges of engaging with climate and disaster risk in the changing context of capital investments and market expansion.

For many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies.

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South.

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China has been connected with the Caribbean community (CARICOM), and wider region for an extensive period.

The capability approach has developed significantly since Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.

Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local commercialization of health care.

South-South migration contributes significantly to the development of the emerging economies, the migration of receiving countries and, at the same time, generates a major share of remittance income flowing into the sending countries.

Indonesia is on the cusp of transformative take-off, poised to become a major economic power not just in Asia, but also on the global-stage.

This book offers a diverse set of perspectives on the current state of Taiwan's economy and international relations, equally considering the challenges and opportunities that could forge Taiwan's future.

Impact of liberalization on informality has been a subject of intense debate for many years and the major issue that has come up is whether liberalization helps to grow informal sector and informality in the economy or it is an obstruction for informal sector's growth.

This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiep along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country's shift towards market socialism.

This book presents the building blocks of Islamic economics as meso-science, offering an in-depth study of the Qur'anic worldview of the monotheistic unity of knowledge, which is the universal and unique message of Tawhid in the Qur'an.