Regional Studies

Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population g...

This book investigates the process and mechanism of the capability development of East Asian local manufacturers, which has underpinned their pheno...

This book examines, theoretically and empirically, the key aspects and differences of economic growth. It provides a comprehensive investigation of...

The management of a water supply network can be substantially improved defining permanent sectors or districts that enhances simpler water loss det...

The Sunsphere, World's Fair Site, and Neyland Stadium are Knoxville landmarks of pride and passion, history and culture. But anyone who has resided...

This edition of the International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean analyses the complex conditions facing the region's trade in 20...

This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This citys colonial capitalist d...

Nationalism appears to be rising in a renascent Asia and stoking tensions, aspirations, and identity politics while amplifying grievances and raisi...

This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golde...

Can Africa develop businesses beyond the extractive or agricultural sectors? What would it take for Africa to play a major role in global business?...

African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism presents a probing examination of the contemporary migrant crisis in the M...

This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hu...

Islamic microfinance is one of the most important sectors of Islamic social finance, which plays a very important role in curbing poverty and impro...

A groundbreaking analysis examining the gains, contradictions and frustrations of 21st century pre-democracy struggles across Southern Africa.

Onyeiwu focuses on how events of the twenty-first century are shaping key sectors of African economies and societies. He suggests that, compared to...

In the last two decades the Tokyo Stock Exchange implemented several important reforms in regulations, market trading mechanisms, and IT trading sy...

How do bank supervisors strike a balance between market self-regulation and pro-active regulatory intervention? This book investigates the choice o...

As India strives to improve overall social and economic conditions and gender relations through policies such as the abolishment of dowry, increasi...

The post 2000 period for India has been quite eventful for Indian economy. The Book examines the implications of growth for inequality and some of ...

Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) assumed a prominent role in Central East Europe (CEE) early on in the transition process. Foreign investors were as...

Das Buch untersucht Empfehlungen und Leitlinien der Europäischen Finanzaufsichtsbehörden von einem handlungsformtheoretischen Ansatz ausgehend. Mit...