Development Economics & Emerging Economies

Drawing on the studies by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Sin...

In Broke but Unbroken, journalist Augusta Dwyer takes us on an inspiring journey through the slums and villages of Brazil, Indonesia, India and A...

Chinas Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by lan...

In this thorough description and analysis of Latin America''s largest economy, Werner Baer traces the trajectory of Brazil''s economic development ...

What are the long-term structural features of the Egyptian economy? What are the factors that have facilitated or inhibited its performance? This c...

China's recent stepping up of relations with Africa is one of the most significant developments on the African continent for decades. For some it p...

Biofuels made from algae are gaining attention as a domestic source of renewable fuel. However, with current technologies, scaling up production of...

With the international community providing billions of dollars each year to promote democratic institutions/cultures in transitional and developing...

This book explores the Millennium Challenge Corporation which provides economic assistance to developing nations. The Millennium Challenge Corporat...

Thirty years ago, China began implementing a series of reforms to improve efficiency in agricultural production. These, and subsequent, reforms res...

''Global Development Finance 2012 (Single User CD-ROM)'' provides you with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2010, and country grou...

As an emerging market economy, China has been the fastest-growing major nation for the past quarter of a century. The rapid economic growth of Chin...

Political and economic developments in Cuba and U.S. policy toward the island nation, located just 90 miles from the United States, have been signi...

It has been established long ago that unrestricted economic growth is not a sufficient condition for the overall advancement of nations. With this ...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a nonreciprocal trade preference program that provides duty-free treatment to U.S. imports of cert...

This book is a counsel on Rapprochement , a framework to compel actors in multiple sectors and levels of policy-making and land use, to work toget...

This book is the seventh title in the series Readings in World Development, edited by Kartik C Roy. In this volume he is joined by co-editors Micha...

This book highlights several important issues which policy makers as well as state and private sector agents are confronted with while implementing...

Water is the most limiting factor for irrigated agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas of European Mediterranean countries. In this book, the auth...