Development Economics & Emerging Economies

South Koreans tailor American ideas about economic development and democracy. This ambitious and innovative study examines American nation building...

"Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have...

Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project—a partnership between global oil companies, the World...

Once viewed as a “brain drain,” migrants are increasingly viewed as a resource for promoting economic development back in their home countries. In ...

Products and services based on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain are normally considered to be for rich consumer...

What does it mean to speak of 'national development' in the 1990s? As a result of the tumultuous changes in global economic and political structure...

The Paraguayan economy did not suffer debt crises in the eighties and had significant growth rates in the second half on the seventies, but poverty...

Although the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the num...

This book analyses the distributional effects of economic growth on different dimensions of poverty in Colombia. It provides a microeconomic perspe...

The general objective of this volume is to assess the effects of China’s rural land property system on land allocation and land use. For almost 30 ...

The book presents a new approach towards the promotion of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs). Over three decades there have been controversi...

This thesis analyses the impact of the major driving forces on livestock husbandry in Benin. The study aims to deepen the understanding of livestoc...

Despite the concern among donors, governments and practitioners about their success in reaching the poor, the lack of reliable low-cost tools makes...

Micronutrient malnutrition is a serious public health problem, especially in developing countries. Hence, evaluating the nutritional impacts of mar...

The German pension system was the first formal pension system in the world, designed by Bismarck nearly 120 years ago. It has been very successful ...

Gaining momentum globally, sustainable development is beginning to significantly redefine the policies of corporations and governmental entities. U...

Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the mot...

Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient ...

China’s banking sector has witnessed significant inbound M&A traffic by developed market banks in recent years. At the same time, Chinese banks...