Development economics and emerging economies

This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic transition.

Can Latin America compete?

This book analyzes spatial and temporal patterns of international trade from a geographical perspective.

Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of the regulation of public services for developing countries.

This book examines the dilemma of overdependence on tourism in Caribbean countries and territories, and the need for a resilient path to address the industry's vulnerability in the face of natural disasters.

This collection explores the expansion of Japanese multinational firms into Asia, a process which paralleled the region's growth as a major economic region.

This collection brings together a collection of theoretical and empirical findings on aspects of financial development and economic growth in developing countries.

This handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration.

The essence of the WTO Appellate Body case law from 1995 to 2010.

This book provides a broad and insightful guide to the economic, social, and environmental concerns seen within Africa.

The oil and gas industry is a complex sector with significant reach in terms of providing the energy needs of the global economy and the security, environmental and development consequences thereof.

An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, NigeriaIn Capitalism in the Colonies, A.

Identifies the main considerations in the policy formation process, isolates cross-national commonalities and differences, and discusses the potential for cross-national local economic development policy transfer.

This volume provide a multidisciplinary thematic exploration of religious violence in South Asia.

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This book explores why, a decade after Zimbabwean independence, government agricultural development policies still retains surprising similarities with those of the colonial period despite lengthy peasant opposition.

Calling for more cooperation between China and the west, this new book by noted author and educator Cary Krosinsky provides readers with an on-the-ground perspective of what's really happening in China today on the back of its recent economic rise, its desire and need to solve environmental challenges and the new positive dynamic created by its need for foreign capital.

During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations, and the natural environment have become successively more intertwined.

In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries.

China's increasing involvement in Africa is a controversial and hotly debated issue.

This book aims to inform better energy policy in hydropower dependent countries which are vulnerable to climate shocks.

This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region - the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges.

The question of money, how to provide it, and how to acquire it where needed is axiomatic to development.

The core of classical economic analysis represented by William Petty and Adam Smith concentrated on the field of development economics.

A high profile thought experiment asks leading scholars to make cases for spending additional aid money to combat major world problems.

Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it.

This book looks at developmental pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support economic transformation and participation of the poor in growth processes.

International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.

In recent years, privatisation has fallen out of favour in many countries because the underlying political factors have not been well understood.

Russia s war against Ukraine is causing a humanitarian, social and economic crisis for the Ukrainian people.

Using India as a case study, this well-written, concise book covers everything one needs to know to understand how a country becomes internationally competitive.

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines.

This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis.

Global polycrisis refers to the simultaneous occurrence of multiple interconnected crises.

While development has been the foremost agenda before successive governments in India, it has been viewed narrowly - from the perspective of economic development and particularly in terms of gross domestic product (GDP).

A guide to how the World Trade Organization interprets the rules and solutions to disputes between its Members.

A game-changing guide for women who want to transform the way they work and create their own success-from an award-winning global diversity expert.

As Ghana approaches its 60th birthday, optimism and worries for the future continue to be present in equal measure.

This book, a valuable reference for students of policy and politics, considers policies towards trade, technology transfer and multinational investment as well as general monetary policies and discusses how development policies may be improved.

'India Shining' has become the brand name for a new India presented in Bollywood films, adverts and books.

Most books on happiness are concerned with answering, in their diverse ways, a basic question: how should I live?

This fascinating and groundbreaking book by an eminent team of scholars provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history.