Development studies

The textbook provides an in-depth overview of African history and politics from the Atlantic slave trade, through the phases of colonialism and decolonization, to the development problems of the present.

Wolfgang Vieweg zeigt kompakt und allgemein verständlich, inwiefern die Soziale Marktwirtschaft für die heutige Zeit zu eng geworden ist und weshalb sie unbedingt einer Erweiterung bedarf.

Kira Drössler zeigt, wie Management, Entwicklung und Content von innovativen Formaten für junge Zielgruppen gestaltet werden sollten, um Digital Natives nachhaltig auf Social Media-Plattformen zu erreichen.

This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Cumulative transport investments under the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program reached $23.

Article 6 is a key part of the Paris Agreement.

L’Indicamétrie est née dans le sillage de l’économie du développement.

This book explores the development of Zhejiang province, an eastern coastal province of China.

This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods.

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

The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production: Mexico's Metamorphosis 1982-2022 How and why Mexico's socioeconomic structure was transformed through plutocratic preferences, US corporate strategies, and ideology-all powering transnational processes of neoliberalization-are issues examined in this comprehensive, carefully documented publication covering four crucial decades of metamorphosis.

Thsi book focuses on entrepreneurial development and the development of small businesses in Africa.

This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and associated problems.

This book analyzes the changes in and development of China's Foreign Aid Policy and Mechanisms over the past 60 years.

This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent.

This book explores the issue of poverty reduction within mainland Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the impact of the private sector and tourism.

This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs.

This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies.

This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches.

This book explores various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regimes with regard to plant-variety protection and farmers' rights; traditional knowledge; geographical indications, genetically modified crops; and access to genetic resources within the broad ambit of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the Convention of Biological Diversity and other treaties/protocols.

Asia is graying rapidly: its share of senior population aged 65 and over will double from 9.

This book considers how small businesses stir up changes in social relationships and what these changes mean for wider society.

Road asset management is one of the top priorities of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Transport and Trade Facilitation Strategy 2020.

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century.

This book is devoted to the analysis of the Six Development Concepts of China titled "e;Xi Jinping's New Development Philosophy"e;, namely Innovative Development, Coordinated Development, Green Development, Open Development, Sharing Development, and Security Development.

This book is an English translation of the authoritative autobiography by the late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.

This Volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores emerging trends and key developments in international economic law.

ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide is a comprehensive explanation of the region's bond markets.

The annual Asian Development Outlook analyzes economic performance in the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.

Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of 'governance and governed' from a state-society inter-relationship perspective.

This book, based on the Chinese dream and its basic principles, global significance, path of implementation and practical requirements, systemically explains China's Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy.

The book explores the debates surrounding sustainable livelihood in the neoliberal era effected through transformation of the nature of work and the role of institutions, particularly in the Global South.

This book is a collection of studies on economic development and growth in selected African countries.

ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide is a comprehensive explanation of the region's bond markets.

This book focuses on the future of China and its sustainable development, and summarizes the implications, forms, causes, countermeasures and related rules of the main costs generated during a country's period of development, so as to provide a theoretical reference and decision-making consulting tools for institutions and scientific governance and management professionals.

This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.

This book analyses how multiple and hybrid 'modernities' have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy.

Reducing poverty and inequality requires innovative modes of financing.

This book gathers a collection of essays presented from the perspective of a spatial planner whose working life has been immersed in South Asia.

This volume focuses on research and practical issues linked to Calcined Clays for Sustainable Concrete.

This report documents tourism sector investment priorities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the governments of Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Viet Nam.

The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview.

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor.

The book reviews globalisation by identifying causes behind the discontent it has produced in recent years.