Development Economics & Emerging Economies

The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sol...

You’ve got your dream job--making video games. You have a great project, great designs, and clever controls. One morning, you get a call from your ...

A review of the existing literature on the China-India comparative theme conveys the distinct impression that the literature largely projects China...

A review of the existing literature on the China-India comparative theme conveys the distinct impression that the literature largely projects China...

Based on new datasets, this book presents an economic history of Indonesia. It analyses the causes of stagnation of growth during the colonial and ...

With the development of the industry, both social lives and economies have been significantly affected. Together with the Industry 4.0 revolution, ...

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist r...

Emerging market economies have accounted for three quarters of world economic growth and more than half of world output over the last decade. But t...

The World Bank, 1993 conferred on Singapore the status of ‘tiger economy’ because of its two miraculous characteristics: high growth and reduced in...

Many new development initiatives have been introduced in Africa over the past few decades. Each of these has been heralded as marking a new era in ...

The last three decades has witnessed miraculous economic growth of China. What has accounted for its miracle? What is the nature and future of the ...

The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding strea...

In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During...

This book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, co...

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

For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT...

Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societie...

While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style...

The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book ...

First published in 1961, this reissue examines the contemporary economic problems of Mauritius alongside those social problems which have a bearing...

The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented ...

Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen med...