Development studies

There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world.

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry's historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, social and political to create a reference source for scholars, teachers, executives, professionals and technicians, as well as students of the industry.

Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states.

This series of books brings together results of an intensive research programme on aspects of the national systems of innovation (NSI) in the five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerging powers, China has demanded reform to global governance, and taken new initiatives using its new quotient of wealth and influence to draw countries into its orbit.

In this handbook social science researchers who focus on sustainability present and discuss their findings, including empirical work, case studies, teaching and learning innovations, and applied projects.

This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.

This book discusses the geopolitics of development from the point of view of the Global South.

Contesting conventional assumptions of the modern nation-state, this book challenges us to rethink the segmentation of the political realm and its underlying economic and social processes.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of 'subalternity' and 'difference' simultaneously constitute and interrupt each other.

Change and development are going on all around us.

India and Turkey, Asia Minor and the Subcontinent of Hindustan, and the Ottomans and Mughals have had shared histories of contact, engagement, and dialogue over the centuries.

Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations.

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s.

This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres.

George Bernard Shaw once said that reasonable people adapt themselves to the world but unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves.

Development and the State in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive analysis of the state's role in contemporary development.

It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science.

This book develops a model to evaluate and assess life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions based on typical Australian commercial building design options.

This book studies the economic history of India and traces the Indian path of development from a Latin American framework and perspective.

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,This book provides valuable lessons that will improve public policy and the quality of decisions that will affect generations to come.

This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia.

This book rethinks economic theory and calls for a creative and pragmatic approach to policymaking.

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions.

Poor governance is increasingly recognized as the greatest impediment to economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Understanding the ground rules of climate change for business.

In a knowledge-based economy, universities are vital institutions.

Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - have transformed themselves into middle income countries.

For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

Five invaluable lessons for doing sustainability right, doing it profitably, and getting the credit you deserve.

This volume describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid post-colonial urbanization.

During the first half of the twentieth century, the international system was largely dominated by the USA and the colonial powers of western Europe.

This book is a call to action for housing recovery policymakers and practitioners to leverage foresight and planning capacities to achieve long-term resilience.

This book examines the subject of Development Finance, or more specifically how financial systems can help or hinder the process of human development.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the many socio-economic challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic across international boundaries, disrupting the economic system and life styles globally.

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population.

Good management of water resources - universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security - has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought.

The COVID-19 crisis has fractured the pre-existing structural rigidities and institutional fragilities in the economies of developing countries more than ever, necessitating a rethinking of fiscal and monetary policies, the main vehicles for relief, recovery and reconstruction.

Offering a study of regionalism in Africa and investigating the ways in which law can be used to address the issues raised by regional processes on the continent, this book examines the African Economic Community, considering that it has been entrusted to coordinate and to harmonize policies between various Regional Economic Communities (RECs) across the continent, thereby influencing the continent's approach towards regional integration.

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries.

The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.

This book presents a new paradigm for attending to gender-based violence (GBV) social media discourse among marginalised Black women in South Africa.

An estimated 75% of the infrastructure that societies will depend on in 2050 does not yet exist, reflecting $139 trillion of investment over the next quarter century.

China's rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform.