Development economics and emerging economies

Originally published in 1987.

First Published in 1985.

This book sheds new light on the advancement of various industries in developing Asian countries through an application and re-examination of catch-up industrialization theory.

Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the 'strategic silence' about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.

Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots.

Primarily concerned with how the US government can outwit its former allies in the rush to exploit their former common enemy.

In this book, Miguel Basanez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on global development.

As microfinance is increasingly being absorbed into broader debates on financial inclusion and sustainable development, there is a growing number of professionals operating in international relations and development who are often confronted with sweeping statements about the alleged benefits and risks of microfinance.

Corruption remains a priority area for both the private sector and development implementers.

The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society; to bring to light the potential and creative role of socio-cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral and spiritual values in progress and the development process; and to examine the links and contradictions between development and progress in order to propose ways of reducing social inequalities.

This book brings together perspectives of development economics and law to tackle the relationship between competition law enforcement and economic development.

Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been recognised as having an advantage in delivering programs and interventions amongst communities of the same faith.

Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals.

This book explores country case studies and works that detail the exact transmission mechanisms through which financial development can enhance pro-poor development in order to derive best practices in this field.

This book proposes an original critical theory of environmental sociology which is verified through actual projects relating to infrastructure development.

This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability.

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs).

An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology.

For a company to grow it needs to generate more margin of profit.

Rural poverty is a phenomenon that is widespread yet often ignored by policy makers and researchers.

From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa.

This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009.

The book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent.

Presents the evolutionary perspective of the economy as perpetually moving, driven by innovation, and the empirical research this has guided.

This book addresses key issues in corporate finance and explores them from financial development and financial stability perspectives in emerging markets.

This research monograph provides systematic and comprehensive materials for applying inframarginal analysis to study a wide range of economic phenomena.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems.

This book explores industrial policy and how it can drive economic development within emerging and developing countries.

Although Japanese economic development is often discussed, less attention is given to social development, and much less to gender related issues.

Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship.

Originally published in 1995 this volume examines and analyzes the factors that have made the township-village enterprise (TVE) such a driver of growth in the Chinese economy in recent years.

This book makes general considerations regarding global changes and contemporary economic issues in Asian countries in real terms.

This book provides insights into commercial and residential real estate markets in one of the world's fastest growing regions: South Asia.

This book delves into China's transition to mid-to-high-end industries amid a new wave of global industrial revolution.

This book addresses women's changing role in and contributions to the Indian labour market.

Can India achieve a high-income status by 2050 when it celebrates the centenary of its Republic?

This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area.

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Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent.

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

This book focuses on the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure development project intended to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The role of cognitive and socioemotional skills alongside education in determining people's success in the labour market has been the topic of a growing body of research - but previous studies have mostly missed middle-income countries and the developing world because measures of those skills and data on employment and earnings on large enough samples of adults have typically not been available.

A comprehensive guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs in developing countriesThis book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs.

This book addresses distributive justice across generations and includes original theories from distinguished economists on intergenerational equity, efficiency and rationality, which discuss policies on social security, pensions, and environmental degradation, as examples of policies of the present generation which impact upon future generations.