Development Economics & Emerging Economies

Born out of the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan has been notable for its struggle to develop a pluralist polity and free market, an attempt that d...

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies hav...

At a time when Peru continues to reel from the impact of Covid-19 and the eruption of corruption scandals involving five former presidents, this bo...

The New Economy has hit China, driven by the Internet and e-commerce. China has made a good start in both areas. Since its debut, subscribers to th...

This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, ru...

The British Economy After Oil (1988) examines the future paths for the British economy as North Sea oil runs out. It considers the argument that th...

Oil and Development in the Arab Gulf States (1985) brings together in one volume the manifold sources of information on the Arab Gulf region, espec...

For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism – the exploiting and exporting of natural resources – is big business. For those ex...

For years, China’s transformation from one of the world’s poorest nations was lauded as a triumph that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of...

This book conveys a simple idea: that the economic framework established by Smith and Coase is very useful in describing and explaining many facts ...

This volume explores the impact of good governance upon social sectors’ development in India and other selected economies of the world.Economic dev...

Harry Shutt argues our world is coming under threat from forces that the ruling elite is increasingly unable to control. Our present economic syste...

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to...

This book analyses and explains the nature of the economies of small countries and territories. It includes an assessment of material prosperity in...

This book analyses the complex relationship between the private sector, UK official development assistance (ODA) and poverty alleviation in sub-Sah...

Over the 153-year period since 1870, the phenomenon of globalisation has been shaped and reshaped. As we look back at the events that shaped our un...

Iran underwent major economic changes in the twentieth century, but these have to date largely been studied in the context of oil, centralization a...

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urba...

Boasting the fastest growing Internet market in the world, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is accelerating into the digital economy....

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing t...

Over the past 15 years, Poland has been one of the fastest-growing countries in the European Union. Trying to explain the sources of Poland’s econo...

This book examines globalization and urban cultures in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, from a socio-cultural view. It focuses on the evolving nat...

This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between thes...