Development economics and emerging economies

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa.

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent.

Why do some countries remain poor and dysfunctional while others thrive and become affluent?

This book investigates factors that contribute to the development of an efficient financial sector in Ghana.

There is no questioning the enthusiasm that welcomed impact investing as an alternative approach to making investments: Take account of both financial returns and the social and environmental impacts.

With contributions from nearly 50 researchers across Latin America, The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Unleashing a millennial potential contains the most important debates on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in Latin America.

An examination of the central spatial tendencies of capitalist development and state-society relations in Peru for the 1914-84 period.

Published in 1998, this book reviews two of the World Bank's agricultural development projects in southeast Nigeria, and concludes that the objectives of these projects - which include reducing rural poverty and developing indigenous capacity for rural development - have not been fully realized.

This book has been written for experienced managers and students in postgraduate programs, such as MBA or specialized Masters programs.

This book examines the reduction of natural resource revenue dependency in resource-rich countries.

Economic development is a priority for all nation-states, whether developing or developed.

Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline.

This book presents paths developing countries can pursue in order to reclaim their ability to take action and improve people's living conditions in the long term.

Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly "e;borderless"e; East Asian economy.

Originally published in 1994 this book examines problems related to investment planning, capacity additions, and choice of technology in dynamic manufacturing systems characterized by multiple products, dynamic demand growth, uncertainty in demand and availability of alternative technologies.

This book fills the gap between theories and practices of corporate governance in emerging markets by providing the reader with an in-depth understanding of governance mechanisms, practices and cases in these markets.

Urban Politics After Apartheid presents an understanding of gendered urban politics in South Africa as an interactive process.

This book investigates the relationship between heritage and development from the global visions articulated by UNESCO and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to local activism, livelihood innovations and political strategies employed in diverse countries of the Global South.

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change.

The rise of China poses a significant challenge to the existing, Western-dominated world economic order.

Monetary Policy in Low Financial Development Countries provides a broad coverage of the monetary policy issues faced by developing countries with low financial depth.

This book develops a new methodological framework for measuring the efficiency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states.

As productivity expands to cater for population increase and shifting diets, many individuals remain hungry, whilst others suffer obesity, and significant amounts of food are wasted.

The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe.

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

In 1980 the Indian software industry was practically non-existent.

This is the eleventh edition of How Ottawa Spends .

This book argues that the development of capital goods manufacturing industries in four relatively large African economies will create regional development poles, from which industrialization will spread to the smaller African countries.

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

Global economic integration, widening communication networks and government policies supportive of private enterprise are changing opportunities for accumulating wealth, status and power.

Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content.

This book presents an extensive study on the effectiveness of recent regulations on pharmaceutical prices in India, exploring the weaknesses in the design and implementation of pharmaceutical price controls and investigating what can be done to fix the broken system.

In this revealing book Junie Tong reflects on the role of banking and finance in China.

The face of global development is changing rapidly, and the CSIS Global Development Monitor seeks to address the complex issues highlighted by the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals.

Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared that the only option for developing countries was integration into the world economy.

Isabell Koinig examines how a standardized promotional message for afictitious over-the-counter (OTC) medication is perceived by consumers in fourdifferent countries (Austria, Germany, the U.

When globalization affects jobs and economies, policy makers strive to plan, design and implement actions to support their communities and businesses (Ansell and Gash 2007).

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.

The changes following more than two decades of economic reforms and globalization of the Indian economy - at state, corporate sector, and consumer level - raise interesting questions on the ways in which the stakeholders will continue to engage on the world stage, politically, socially and economically.