Development Economics & Emerging Economies

A small town on a sandy creek half a century ago, Dubai is now the largest trading, commercial, leisure and transport entrepot in the Gulf and wide...

During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as 'colonies' have become known a...

In the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of dependency theory, Robert Packenham describes its origins, substantive claims, and methods. He an...

Under free-market shock therapy, the economies of Eastern Europe have plunged into crisis. Shortages may have disappeared, but so have social servi...

A timely call to reshape government through technology, from Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, two leading experts in the field.For many aspects of h...

GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the ...

In business, some problems are so complex, intractable and threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicke...

Basing his proposal on plans developed by New Deal social welfare administrators, Harvey analyzes the feasibility and desirability of using public ...

Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers addresses the challenge that the rising powers pose for global governance, substantively an...

Latin America’s widespread poverty and multi-dimensioned inequalities have long perplexed and provoked observers. Until recently, economic historia...

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution s...

John Komlos examines the industrial expansion of Austria from a fresh viewpoint and develops a new model for the industrial revolution. By integrat...

The Third World in Soviet Perspective consists of translations of a representative selection of essays on numerous aspects of the developing areas ...

This book provides a systematic and coherent framework for understanding the interactions between the micro and macro dimensions of economic adjust...

The integration and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in African countries is increasingly observable in various sectors of a...

In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal On the Mechanics of Economic...

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Enikö Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Tim...