Development studies

This book offers a collection of distinguished contributions that identify current growth accelerators in India, and suggest policies and strategies to make India's growth more sustainable and inclusive.

This book explains in simple language the change of perspective and the transition of the systems for poverty alleviation, based on the fifteen-year development of China's poverty alleviation policy.

This book captures the essence of Hong Kong's development in the past two decades from 1997 to 2017.

Singapore's progress as an independent nation and the uplifting of its people's livelihood have been made possible by stable social and political conditions.

This book analyses how authoritarian rulers of Southeast Asian countries maintain their durability in office, and, in this context, explains why some movements of civil society organizations succeed while others fail to achieve their demands.

The book is a response to the dominant discourse of South Africa as unwelcoming to African immigrants.

This book explores the reforms sweeping China's educational sector.

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery.

This handbook deals with various financial instruments, policies, and strategies in a policy-oriented approach for financing green energy projects.

This book figures out that network security and informatization have entered a development stage of greater permeation and deeper integration into all aspects of the economy and society.

This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-a-vis migration.

This book discusses contemporary China's land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development.

The book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of 'development', is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India.

This book examines various aspects of changes to business behavior through the lenses of the "e;twin pillars"e; of sustainability - responsibility and governance.

Research in this book focuses on the strategic behaviour of the State as a shareholder in businesses, and the implications it has for the other shareholder(s) and business performance.

This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states.

This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

This book delves into the limitations of Singapore's authoritarian governance model.

The theme of this book is the cultural construction in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of "e;China Dream"e; policy.

As the crises of capitalism continue to intensify, radical thinkers must conjure realistic and inspirational alternative futures beyond this failing social order.

This book focuses on the application of sustainable development principles through consultation with, and partnerships between commerce and the community.

This book describes the past, present and future of East Asian order, and analyzes how China, Japan, the U.

This book introduces flood inundation area and flood risks assessment based on a comprehensive monitoring system using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies.

This book explains how recognition theory contributes to non-colonial and enduring political relationships between Indigenous nations and the state.

This book examines the low-carbon energy transition taking place in developing Asia, in the context of persisting social and gender inequalities, the threat of climate change which has necessitated the decarbonisation of industry, and examines how developing Asia can 'leap-frog' the carbon-emitting stages that more developed economies have passed through, while simultaneously 'leap-frogging' social and gender equity gaps.

This book provides the solid and detailed evidence for some debated theories in Chinese studies, based on quantitative-qualitative analysis or mixed methods, which is quite novel compared with the extant work through qualitative or quantitative research alone.

This book investigates China's contemporary development cooperation mentality and modality through the case of its agricultural engagement with Africa.

This book is a compilation of the policy briefs produced by the International Science Council's program on Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach over the past five years.

This book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of China's transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society.

This book shows a panorama of sustainable development practices covering 70 major cities.

This book mainly focuses on the miracle of China's foreign trade in the past 40 years from five perspectives: first, it briefly reviews the import substitution strategy China adopted before its opening-up; second, it analyzes the export-oriented strategy that contributes a lot to China's economic growth since 1980s; third, it discusses the impacts of trade liberalization and China's participation in WTO on Chinese firms; forth, it addresses the deepening opening-up in the context of global financial crisis; last, it provides policy advice on China's newly conducted all-around opening-up strategy.

This book is an analysis of the developments associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) five years after Xi Jinping announced both the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st Maritime Silk Road (21MSR).

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.

This book is a detailed study on the future development trends of China by well-known Chinese and foreign scholars.

This book takes a unique approach to the topic of poverty reduction, primarily employing an international business framework as opposed to the usual economic or political lens.

The book critically examines the high growth trajectory in India, particularly since the late 1980s, a period which is characterized by increasing inequality.

This book is a collection of essays covering a range of issues related to socioeconomic inequalities and diversities.

This book analyzes how today's system of international trade law and international economic relations has evolved over the last six decades.

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa.

This book looks at a substantively new model of educational philosophy and its application within the field of tertiary education, in relation to socio-economic development in Southeast Asian members of the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC).

This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia's "e;revolution for dignity"e; and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution.

This book examines Kazakhstan's struggle to distance itself from its Soviet past over 25 years after its independence.

This book explores the achievements and obstacles confronting China and major Latin American countries in developing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the context of new changes in "e;The Belt and Road"e; Initiative.

This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal's forestry bureaucracy.

This book covers a wide range of the issues in development studies.

This book provides in-depth analyses on accounting methods of GDP, statistic calibers and comparative perspectives on Chinese GDP.

China has made remarkable yet uneven progress in social development.

Decentralized energy systems paradigm calls for - a) evidence-based policy for local resource assessment, and b) context-specific energy needs assessment for- overcoming 'barriers' to decentralized energy systems in India.

Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework.

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