Development Economics & Emerging Economies

Throughout history, humans have sought to enhance their wellbeing across various domains. Though the spectrum of factors responsible for wellbeing ...

Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accent...

Rapid and sustained growth in the twenty-first-century global economy of large developing economies including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Sou...

This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the major facets of Indonesia's contemporary agricultural and rural development, while ex...

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 describes the exponential changes to the way we live, work, and relate to one another due to the adoption of cyber-ph...

After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over c...

The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. T...

Against the backdrop of growing anti-globalisation sentiments and increasing fragmentation of the production process across countries, this book ad...

The Internet has ushered in a new era in the economies of networking. With the increasing need for optimization based on these network economies, t...

The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 5...

This book explores the key economic issues facing Southeastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the context of the serious challenges that...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönn...

First published in 1975, this book provides a straightforward examination of regional differences and regional development in the countries of West...

This title was first published in 2003. Korea has had considerable success in developing its high technology industries and these have become signi...

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery....

A major new volume in the Routledge International Handbooks series analysing emerging and newly emerged economies, including the BRICS countries (B...

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become a popular development policy throughout the world over the last half a century. These zones form designat...

The number of poor people in China is huge, despite recent economic advances. This book investigates the problem of poverty in China's regions, dis...

Many different companies can significantly contribute to the integrated goals and targets of the United Nations sustainable development goals, such...

Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have...

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of todays capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In this overview of G...

This title was first published in 2003. Development is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, driven by the expansion of one or more sectors and t...

Available research suggests that less developed countries have significant competitive advantage over developed countries in three major areas of i...

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more rel...

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-ac...

More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world. A Hom...

The excessive pursuit of economic interests has resulted in severe environmental and social problems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, an...

Since the year 2000 Latin America has been at the forefront of a series of diverse experiments with alternative forms, pathways and models of econo...

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or offshored from the US and Europe to, in particular, lo...

It is widely accepted that natural resource wealth, especially in the form of oil and minerals, can be a key factor in inhibiting economic developm...

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecur...

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that th...

The financial crash of 2008 led people all over the world to ask how far financiers are in control of our lives. To what extent does what they do w...

South Africas transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of t...

This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of ...

The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for...

Newly gained sovereignty, uneven penetration of neo-liberal ideals and the growth of disparate capitalist markets have elicited varied responses in...

This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development past, present and future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are...

This book analyses how religion is entangled in peoples lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings...

For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ...

India is the first country in the world to have an official programme for family planning that commenced in 1952. It has also seen a strong womens ...

This title was first published in 2003. Covering a diverse range of countries such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slov...

Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of dif...

The need for the creation of an enabling political, legal and economic environment for women within Turkey is rising. A growing concern is shown at...

As COVID-19 took hold across local and international borders in 2020 and 2021, over 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated to have been advers...

This title was first published in 2003. Hammouda's text focuses on modernization experiences in the South which, in the 80s had reached their limit...

This book outlines the basic features of the dependency literature and clarifies the emergence and development of the dependency paradigm, its mean...

East Asian nations through the dialogue between ASEAN and its partners have been promoting energy market integration (EMI) for a decade. The format...