Development Economics & Emerging Economies

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulat...

Composed of activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals, this generation is drawing on new reformist thinking emerging from outside ...

Over the last few decades, emerging markets have increased their share in world GDP and have come to play a prominent and growing role in global bu...

Business retention and expansion (BRE) is regarded as the most practical and accessible method for economic development at the city, town, or neigh...

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this...

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational managemen...

Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia investigates why two countries that appeared to be at more or less the same stage of economic developmen...

This title was first published in 2000: Up-to-date information on socio-economic issues in contemporary Swaziland is not always readily accessible....

The study of the political economy of development in India is significant as India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing countries during the l...

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In partic...

This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African persp...

Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the new South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the econom...

The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations. ...

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental...

First published in 1989, this book provides a macro-micro approach to economic development taking account of multi-level linkages, both inter and ...

The Political Economy of Chinas Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a gen...

Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate h...

Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, they—and unregistered adults—could face serious diffic...

The rapid industrialization of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earths biosphere and its local ecosystems. Climate scientists have ...

Reconfiguring Global Health Innovation presents the findings of multi-year research, contrasting experiences of different latecomer countries in bu...

The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for on...

As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out ...

This title was first published in 2003. This book represents one of the recent internationally coordinated initiatives to access the rich and still...