Development Economics & Emerging Economies

This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several...

This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but amongst blacks as well. Key factors discussed incl...

Although the quest for growth remains as elusive as it was more than a decade ago, there is now much greater consensus on the policies and institut...

This book, the third in the Africa: Policies for Prosperity series, is concerned with the challenges of securing economic prosperity in Tanzania ov...

This book is about the way ‘governance’ has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market e...

When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United States across borders ...

This book analyses the progress and failures of capitalist development against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised world economy organised o...

This book takes up a critical and realistic perspective on what is happening in China, India and other Asian countries in comparison with Western c...

Introduction to Modern Economic Growth is a groundbreaking text from one of today's leading economists. Daron Acemoglu gives graduate students not ...

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this a...

Korea was the first non-G7 member and Asian country to host the recent G20 Summit, acting as a bridge between advanced and developing nations. At t...

This book examines the development model that has driven China's economic success and looks at how it differs from the Washington Consensus. China’...

This book contributes to the understanding of gender and regional inequalities in developing countries. First, it deals with social institutions re...

Issues relating to employment and labour have once again come to the fore of global policy debates in the wake of the widespread unemployment that ...

This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peri...

Accumulation of assets to enable the diversification of activities has been established as crucial in helping the rural poor escape poverty. The em...

Recent discussions of the 'Chinese economic development model', the emergence of an alternative 'Muslim model' over the past quarter century and th...

Analysis of North African revolt against authoritarianism, known as the ‘Arab Spring’, embraced reductionist explanations such as the social media,...

By trying to alleviate poverty abroad, foreign development assistance tries to meet, among other things, basic human needs, which some schools of t...

In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya’s late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, an...

This book describes artisans from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, as they attempt to overcome poverty and communicate ethnic identity through participat...

Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that d...

As the preeminent international development agency for the past sixty years, the World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise. Cr...

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge fr...

Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair There is romance in stealing from the rich to give t...

This book, originally published in 1988, analyzes the regional importance of small and medium sized enterprises, supplmenting a discussion of key i...

The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This ...

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Rural Europe investigates how social entrepreneurship advances social innovation in rural Europe and cont...

Revenues from commodities are extremely important for Latin America and the Caribbean, yet there is very little literature on the structure of thes...

Bhutan's education sector has attracted international attention for recent reforms driven by the national development philosophy of Gross National ...

This book seeks to fill the information gap on a key emerging real estate market and demystify the perception that the market in Ghana and indeed, ...

The sufferings of “ordinary” people under harsh economic conditions can eventually lead to the fall of governments. Given this fact, it becomes im...

In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya’s late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, an...

Of the 54African states, only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised ...

The book studies the relationship between economic agglomeration and environmental pollution from a spatial perspective through theoretical analyse...

While there have been many books about China’s growing economic role in Africa, this book explores the much less well-known story of India’s growin...

This book evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexic...

Please view this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnyO4EILcgThe importance of competitiveness has increased rapidly in recent years, where a...

The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the e...

This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. T...

There is a large gap between Japan’s ranking on indicators of economic development and on indicators of gender equality. This book helps us to unde...

An expanded and updated edition of Woronoff's 1986 study of Asia's emerging economic giants, this book looks back at what has happened in the inter...

Nations and international organizations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are in...

This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system th...

At a time of momentous shifts in the balance of world economic forces epitomized by the current oil price boom, the weakening US dollar and the glo...