Development Economics & Emerging Economies

Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN pea...

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happen...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperityLeft behind places can ...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a driving force of the global economy, contributing up to 50% of gross domestic product in some insta...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offere...

The formation of the Pan-Pearl River Delta regional framework in June 2004 heralded a new beginning of regional development in China. Massive in sc...

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happen...

First published in 1983, Problems in Class Analysis presents a coherent theory of labour’s domination by capital, based upon the notion of the capi...

This handbook covers a wide spectrum of issues relating to small states. Chapters in the volume have been grouped under the three main themes of e...

In this visionary work, the author suggests an original novel concept: the general theory of a new industrial society of the second generation that...

This book has examined the way African countries utilise their natural wealth. It has illustrated that weak economic sovereignty accounts for the i...

This book reviews and interprets the literature that examines the design of regulatory policy when the regulator's knowledge of the relevant enviro...

'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long play...

First published in 1994. Drawing on a personal network, an economist can still relatively easily stay well informed in the narrow field in which he...

A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas deve...

The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has a long and varied history, and this book examines how the WAEMU can achieve its developmen...

In this visionary work, the author suggests an original novel concept: the general theory of a new industrial society of the second generation that...

Renewing Birmingham is the first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Christopher MacGregor...

Examining how and why agricultural change and development occurred in Western Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries is the central...