Development Economics & Emerging Economies

Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countri...

Written by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, this book gives an overview of evaluation practice at IF...

The Belt and Road Initiative (hereafter BRI) of China has attracted worldwide attention and participation, causing a lot of debate over its implica...

Much of our understanding of local economic development is based on large urban agglomerations as nodes of innovation and competitive advantage, co...

This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between urban and rural pe...

The subnational dimension of infrastructure has emerged as one of the greatest challenges in contemporary public finance policy and management. Ens...

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people ...

The early 21st century has seen a prolonged price boom in non-fuel commodities, coupled with a volatile performance in fuel prices. This new collec...

The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entreprene...

Since the group of least developed countries (LDCs) was identified in 1971, only five countries have graduated from the group, all of which are cha...

Throughout history, humans have sought to enhance their wellbeing across various domains. Though the spectrum of factors responsible for wellbeing ...

Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accent...

Rapid and sustained growth in the twenty-first-century global economy of large developing economies including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Sou...

This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the major facets of Indonesia's contemporary agricultural and rural development, while ex...

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 describes the exponential changes to the way we live, work, and relate to one another due to the adoption of cyber-ph...

After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over c...

The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. T...

Against the backdrop of growing anti-globalisation sentiments and increasing fragmentation of the production process across countries, this book ad...

The Internet has ushered in a new era in the economies of networking. With the increasing need for optimization based on these network economies, t...

The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 5...

This book explores the key economic issues facing Southeastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the context of the serious challenges that...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönn...

First published in 1975, this book provides a straightforward examination of regional differences and regional development in the countries of West...

This title was first published in 2003. Korea has had considerable success in developing its high technology industries and these have become signi...