Development economics and emerging economies

This pivot examines non-governmental organization (NGO) interventions in two community development initiatives, namely social capital and community empowerment, and their role in funding and formulating development frameworks in developing countries like Bangladesh.

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

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion.

This book focuses on skilled labour migration from Malaysia to Singapore.

This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture.

This book provides a much-needed review of Asia's economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization.

This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development.

This book explores the historical and economic development of South Korea, its culture, as well as the benefits, opportunities and challenges that German companies have faced in their cooperation with South Korean enterprises.

This book is mainly about the examination of shifting in the field of ecological economics resulting from its evolution over the past three decades.

This volume brings together multidisciplinary, situated and nuanced analyses of contingent issues framing a rapidly changing India in the 21st century.

The book reports on the development of householdfinances in rural China.

This book focuses on the application of newly innovated analytical tools for sustainable development on regional economic and environmental issues in Korea.

This book discusses the latest developments in the China Pilot Free- Trade Zone strategy.

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This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present.

This book analyzes the decrease in labor share in China, which is a ratio of national income distribution to capital at three different levels (macro, meso, and micro) and from three different perspectives (growth, transition and opening up).

This book is a compendium of case studies illustrating how economic tools and techniques can be used to address a wide range of problems in the management and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems in a developing country context.

This book aims to clarify the present situation of the relations between small island countries and territories on the one hand and the great powers, mainland areas, and mega-islands on the other, and explores how small island countries and territories preserve and build their identity under globalization.

This book focuses on Indianmanufacturing industries and analyses the impact of inward foreign directinvestment on the domestic sector on the one hand, and exports and outwardforeign direct investment by Indian companies on the other.

Esta obra ofrece un enfoque inédito que relaciona tres conceptos fundamentales para la etapa histórica actual de Venezuela: las llamadas Zonas Económicas Especiales, son instrumentos que han servido para la promoción del crecimiento y el desarrollo en importantes países del sistema-mundo moderno así como la seguridad de la nación, abordada desde una perspectiva novedosa que enfatiza la actividad económica y el socialismo del siglo XXI.

The first edition of State and Society in Nigeria, published in 1980, was and remains a dominant influence in teaching, research, policy and practice of state-society relations in Nigeria for more than a generation.

Most studies of doing business at the "e;bottom of the economic pyramid"e; focus on viewing the poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies.

This comprehensive volume provides uniquely diverse insights into various aspects of decentralization and development from both developed and developing countries, with special reference to Sri Lanka.

La economía actual se basa principalmente en el análisis de un único flujo económico: el producto interno bruto que, como indicador, durante mucho tiempo ha sido el paradigma hegemónico.

La turbulencia económica y política que se registra a nivel mundial le otorga a la auditoría un papel protagónico, entendida como el conjunto de sistemas y acciones que aporta valor a una organización, en un marco de permanente cambio.

En los modelos de crecimiento económico las innovaciones tecnológicas desempeñan un papel fundamental.

Este oportuno libro sobre la T-R-A-N-S-M-U-TA-C-I-Ó-N (transformación por la vía de evolución acelerada ) COMPETITIVA, desarrolla un nuevo enfoque y un novedoso método sobre como cuantificar uno de los conceptos más importantes de la economía.

El libro formulación y evaluación de planes de negocios es el resultado de experiencias académicas y empresariales.

Esta obra, primera en su género que se publica en español sobre el tema de la Intervención Apreciativa, está dirigida a una variedad de públicos pero especialmente a directores y gerentes de empresas y organizaciones, directores de comunicación interna y de recursos humanos, profesores y estudiantes de comunicación empresarial u organizacional y de sociología de las organizaciones, y lectores en general.

Este libro es el resultado de un seminario de investigacion entre tres connotados investigadores.

Los temas, problemas y retos relativos al desarrollo exigen de interdisciplinariedad y abarcan bastante más que las escalas económica o financiera.

Corporations, business groups and other business organizations are increasingly concerned about social challenges that directly impact the future of capitalism.

Adopting AI in accounting, auditing and internal control comes with challenges that need to be addressed for successful implementation.

Digital transformation in organisations can improve business agility, operational efficiency, customer service, and contribute to sustainability initiatives.

La globalizacion ha venido constituyendose en la historia con un despliegue de apuestas teoricas tan diversas como los horizontes desde donde pueden avistar tan complejas como la red de relaciones y tensiones que su advenimiento ha suscitado.

Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people?

India is grappling with serious environmental issues that have been largely sparked by its galloping economy.

"e;Good books make important points because their authors have something worthwhile to say.

Education for Sustainability is a key priority in today's schools, as our society seeks to find a balance between environmental, social, cultural, political and economic imperatives that affect our future.

This book offers 32 texts and case studies from across a wide range of business sectors around a managerial framework for Sustainable Business.

This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems.

This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life?

What is family farming?

Developing and 'transition' economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens and sustainable environments for future generations.

India has been traditionally well-endowed with large freshwater reserves, but increasing population, urbanization and agricultural growth in recent decades are causing overexploitation of surface and groundwater.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers-women-lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive.

This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind's predilection with continuous GDP-growth.

The monoculture systems that have been encouraged by governments since the 1960s have led to major socio-economic and environmental crises.

This book presents original happiness research from and about a region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness.