Development Economics & Emerging Economies

The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding strea...

In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During...

This book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, co...

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back t...

For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT...

Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societie...

While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style...

The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book ...

First published in 1961, this reissue examines the contemporary economic problems of Mauritius alongside those social problems which have a bearing...

The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented ...

Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen med...

History teaches us that agricultural growth and development is necessary for achieving overall better living conditions in all societies. Although ...

This book sheds light on social policies in six South Asian countries introduced between 2003 and 2013, examining the ways in which these policies ...

The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding strea...

Ilchman and Uphoff believe that political science has failed in the past to meet its own standards of rigor and cogency and does not meet standards...

Igniting the $100 billion Indigenous economy It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Ind...

Technical co-operation involving northern experts transferring expertise to the south has not always worked. In fact it has sometimes been counter-...

This volume looks at the challenges faced by the economy and society in Punjab, India. It probes into the economic issues, institutional developmen...

First Published in 1993. This title sets out to spark debate and learn from the urban bias theory. The author suggests that recent political econom...

Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts. He s...

Capitalism has long been idealized as a symbol of success, power, and free enterprise. In reality, while capitalism has brought wealth and success ...

The informal economy has emerged as one of the most dynamic, active, and hotly-debated domains in the entire developing world. Unfortunately, it re...

ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute has commissioned a second nationwide survey in Indonesia as a follow-up to the first similar project in 2017 called t...