Development Economics & Emerging Economies

Microfinance has long been considered a development strategy that can correct the failure of the global credit market and address the financial nee...

Macroeconomic policies matter for sustainable long-term growth. With global fluctuations, deviation from a stable growth path can be minimized by c...

Agriculture is a major contributor to Africas GDP, the regions biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural pr...

As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the su...

Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten. In 2000, two-way trade st...

An increase in the global population has led to a higher demand for food, besides complicating environmental, economic, and social issues. Agricult...

This book investigates the intricacies of resource management performance across various sectors within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. With 13 in-de...

Using a new methodology for foresight studies, this book presents new findings and policy recommendations to improve living conditions and make pro...

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...

This book explores the determination of Chinas carbon emission targets, especially with regard to the allocation of responsibility of Chinas import...

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

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Indias social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and exp...

What started as a sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States in 2007 snowballed into global recession and later transformed into an economic cr...

An exploration of women's participation in small- and micro-enterprise activities in less developed countries. Topics covered include: the human ec...

Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays mirror and expand the complexity of contemporary ...

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes o...

The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economis...

The oil and gas industry is a complex sector with significant reach in terms of providing the energy needs of the global economy and the security, ...

The oil and gas industry is a complex sector with significant reach in terms of providing the energy needs of the global economy and the security, ...

Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Moveme...

Foreign direct investments (FDI) play an integral role in the growth story of Emerging Asian economies. As an essential source of foreign capital, ...

Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently traded in local, unregul...

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inq...

This book explores developmental policymaking across the multiple levels of Mexicos contemporary state, arguing that many of the innovations in ind...

In the last few decades, Brazilian agriculture has experienced a seismic transformation, and its contradictory facets have fed different and opposi...

First published in 1997, this study sees the small enterprise as performing specific tasks within the larger societal system of production and dist...

This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called rising powers of the global South to offer an altern...

This title was first published in 2001. A comparative overview and analysis of the economic performance, structure and trade relations of the Balka...