A Look at China and Sino-Belarus Cooperation
A guide to China’s new era under Xi Jinping. It explores the centralization of power, the anti-corruption fight, and strengthening diplomacy. This book examines the rapprochement with Russia, rising tensions with the US, and controversies of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Under Basel III, managing capital buffers is crucial for financial stability. This book departs from previous studies through its unique focus on developing countries and their assessment of the behavior of capital and risk.
This book analyzes the agricultural landscape of Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on maize. It details the maize value chain, projects future productivity growth, and identifies key investment areas, providing actionable insights for policymakers, NGOs, and donor organizations.
This publication focuses on the efficacy of ‘financial education’ as a tool in attaining client protection in Varanasi, India. It also utilizes the Microfinance Clients Awareness Index to evaluate the factors that impact the level of financial awareness for microfinance clients.
Deriving from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014, the papers here consider the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds with regards to the sustainable development of the economy throughout Africa.
This title details several aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and their linkages to African economies. Based on stylized facts and rigorous analytical studies, it offers state-of-the-art analyses on FDI-related topics.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a tool for poverty reduction, but attracting it is not the end. This book argues a nation’s absorption capacity is paramount, exploring the ‘Vicious-Circle of Poverty’ and providing new frameworks for plausible poverty reduction approaches.
This book provides an insightful analysis of Korea’s remarkable economic growth, tracing its development from one of the poorest countries in the 1960s to a global high-tech leader. It explores the role of trade, R&D, and technology, with implications for developing countries.
Loan and Investment in a Developing Economy
This title investigates various issues of investment and credit that are of importance to any developing economy through an analysis of micro- and macro-economic data from Ethiopia. It will interest academics working in the field of development economics.
Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid
This interdisciplinary collection investigates the role of aid in African development. Scholars examine where aid has failed and offer new perspectives on how it can be made more effective, addressing critical questions of ownership, need, and performance.
State Capitalism Reforms and the Path for Belarus
An insightful study of Belarus, a country “trapped in transition” for decades. This book explores its unique model of state capitalism and outlines the economic pitfalls that lead to long-term recession.
The Competitive Challenge of Emerging Markets
The rise of emerging economies like China and India has created a disruptive competitive challenge. This book examines their distinctive characteristics, the challenges of doing business, and the threat of emerging market multinationals as they aspire to surpass their rivals.
The Efficiency and Productivity of Indian Pharmaceutical Companies
This book evaluates the Indian pharmaceutical industry, highlighting the government’s role in its growth from non-existence before the 1970s to one of the largest in the world. It provides an understanding of productivity and efficiency for health administrators and economists.
Applying an innovation systems approach, this book offers a sweeping history of South Africa’s economy from 1916 to the post-apartheid era, opening up a novel engagement with the complex phenomenon of apartheid, its genealogy and its aftermath.
The Historical Origin of the African Economic Crisis
This book answers major questions on African development related to international trade and finance. It explores the economic interaction between Africa and the West (in the past) and China today, considering the continent’s future development in light of its experiences.
The Impact of Development on the Environment and Human Rights
Priya charts the developmental policies followed in India since independence and their impact on the environment and human rights. He also presents a view of how sustainable development in the country may be attained by focusing on three contemporary case studies.
The Napa Valley Wine Industry
This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.
The Shape of the East Asian Economy to Come
The Asian economic crisis challenged conventional wisdom, giving impetus to an “East Asian economic community.” Will this new paradigm cultivate the fruits of past experience, or is it an effort to escape the free market? This volume sheds light on the arguments.
Venezuela in the Gordian Knot
Once Latin America’s wealthiest country, with the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed state. How did this happen and how can it get out? This book diagnoses the 40 years of populism that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise and resulted in the nation’s impoverishment.