Development economics and emerging economies

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

This book explores how a growing religious discourse is advocating for change in women's employment participation in Arab societies.

This proceedings volume brings together the results of a corporate discussion on research, academic teaching and education in the field of business and economics in the context of globalization.

The book is a collection of chapters discussing the Sustainable Development Goals in the broader context of Islamic finance along with mapping the SDGs with Maqasid Al-Shariah.

This book provides a systematic framework for effectively creating value through engineering in global business networks, and contributes to an increasingly important branch of engineering operations.

This book provides a solid overview of trade and business opportunities in the Pacific Alliance, focusing on the key drivers of economic growth and development in Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico.

This book sheds light on the dollarization trends of four transitional economies in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

This book investigates sustainability, CSR, climate change adaptation, the relevance of ESG scores and their impact on firm value and growth.

This book provides an assessment of the megatrends that are reshaping the emerging markets landscape.

This book explores the potential for renewable energy development and the adoption of sustainable production processes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional perspectives.

This book offers new perspectives on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region.

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics.

This book is an essential guide to understanding how managers in China and Southeast Asia make effective economic decisions.

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective.

This volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in former Yugoslavian countries.

This book explores the economic and political impact of US aggression and the rise of China.

This book critically addresses concepts and analyses related to the higher education and development nexus in Africa.

This edited volume examines the challenges of globalization in light of the need to revisit and reconceptualize the notion of Pan-Africanism.

Latin American and Iberian entrepreneurship represents a special kind of innovation, risk-taking, and futuristic business activity based on a common cultural heritage.

This contributed volume explores and reveals the dynamics, strengths and weaknesses, trends and implications of entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

In Islam, philanthropy is a spectrum of activity, and these activities differ in their purpose and in the principles on which they operate.

This volume addresses economic challenges and policy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book presents an alternative, critical perspective on the political economy of development and business.

This book provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US-owned multinational firm, Chiquita Brands International.

This book examines the need for greater legal coherence within international trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and external trade relations.

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

This book looks at the challenges and possibilities facing leadership in Africa today by providing a rich history of the continent, the complexities the continent has experienced, and the great hope and encouragement that remains.

This professional guidebook highlights sustainable tourism development and management for businesses and destinations.

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry.

This book examines the performance of the Brazilian economy since the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/2008 with focus on both the productive and financial dimensions, along with distributional and social issues.

Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome.

This book explores the implications of talent management in four practical settings across the globe.

This book explores the influence of the modes of knowledge transfer and environmental dynamism on the relationship between strategic actions and the sustainable balanced scorecard measurement of performance.

This book presents case studies to analyse the relationship between sustainability - environmental, social, institutional and economic - and digital innovation.

This book evaluates the evolution of regulatory policy in advanced countries and discusses how, due to globalization, policy changes in one country have a knock-on effect in others.

This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies.

The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the highly topical issue of protecting and promoting labour standards in international economic law and the globalized economy.

This book, a third edition, has been significantly expanded and updated.

The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models.

This book takes a unique approach exploring Corporate Social Responsibility through a case study in Bintulu, Malaysia.

This book discusses financial inclusion, gender equality, regulatory regimes for microfinance, women empowerment, and digital finance from an Islamic perspective.

This book shares unique perspectives on the successful global evolution and future ambitions of Chinese consumer companies.

This book analyzes the transformation of Korean political economy since the 1990s.

In this book the author investigates the role of entrepreneurship in the socio-economic development of emerging economies, highlighting its vital part in implementing development programs and policy initiatives.

This proceedings volume analyzes the impact of globalization on international financial flow as well as harmonized financial reporting.

The financial crisis in advanced economies and its impact on developing countries has put the longer term agenda of development - structural transformation of countries, of their growth, jobs, poverty and distribution - on the analytic and policy backburner.

This volume presents selected papers on recent management research from the 20th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which was held in Vienna in 2016.

This book highlights innovative solutions together withvarious techniques and methods that can help support the manufacturing sectorto excel in economic, social, and environmental terms in networked businessenvironments.