Development economics and emerging economies

This book offers a multifaceted examination of Africa's development into the post-2015 global agenda from a geographical perspective.

Investigates development practice, civil organization formation and the increase of ethnically motivated conflicts over the past two decades in Western Africa.

Originally published in 1990, this volume is a comprehensive study of United States foreign aid allocation from 1961-1983 and the significance it has for US Foreign Policy as a whole.

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This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries.

The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before.

This book explains the strategic behaviors of platform firms on the global market, drawing on extensive research on the mobile communication systems, semiconductor equipment, personal computer, and automobile electronics industries.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world.

The first systematic and comprehensive analysis of innovation in Africa based on mixed methods and dedicated firm-level, multi-country, multi-year survey data.

Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries.

In the past two decades many developing countries have embraced the challenge of globalization by rushing to dismantle trade barriers and to promote increasingly liberal market-oriented policies.

The potential ease with which transnational corporations can relocate their activities gives them great leverage over individual governments.

Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow's economic policies - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia.

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy.

This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources.

The remarkable speed at which microcredit has expanded around the world in the last three decades has piqued the curiosity of practitioners and theorists alike.

Latin America has gone through a major transformation in the past two decades.

Public finance is crucial to a country's economic growth, yet successful reform of public finances has been rare.

This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia.

This book concentrates on major changes that are now taking place in the fields of technology, foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and development strategies, with a particular focus on India.

This book addresses the increasing prominence of family-owned business groups and their potential to influence growth and development in the global economy.

The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach.

This book is a treatise on cultural globalization and the global political economy.

At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact.

The book provides an authoritative study on Special Economic Zones.

This book considers the impact of multinational companies in China on the Chinese economy and on indigenous firms in China.

The Korean economy has experienced astoundingly rapid growth during the period 1960-90 and is now able, despite its late start, to compete with mature industrialised economies.

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now.

The current growth path in sub-Saharan Africa is not following the Lewis model where labour moves from low-productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing.

Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers.

Africa in World Politics provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African states on an increasingly turbulent world stage.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Exotix Capital Developing Markets Guide, produced by Tellimer - the developing markets experts.

Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations.

This volume makes JEC-commissioned expert studies of economic developments in East-Central Europe available to business people, educators and students.

In uncertain times, the focus on advanced economies overshadows the often-overlooked contributions of African economies.

Does culture matter?

This book critically interrogates the notion of transformation in higher education, focusing on epistemological and structural issues in postcolonial and contemporary Africa.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the key steps required to strategically approach becoming a successful sustainable business including conducting a CSR assessment, developing a CSR strategy and the accompanying business case, developing and implementing CSR commitments, and measuring the performance and effectiveness of the planning initiative.

While cities often act as the engines of economic growth for developing countries, they are also frequently the site of growing violence, poverty, and inequality.

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "e;global(izing)"e; city are creating more division between social classes, not less.

Since 1945, over 200 intrastate conflicts have taken place in countries that achieved independence from colonial rule after the second world war.

The author considers the implications of deeper integration in the international economy for developing countries.

The majority of China's population is the Han.