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Evolutionary Games and Poverty Traps

By: Edgar J. Sánchez Carrera

£41.99

This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.

Third International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management

Edited By: Joseph Callaghan, Hong Qian

£52.99

This book summarizes state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis, a vital area of finance. Written by leading experts, it provides insights for estimating default probability, evaluating individual loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios of such assets.

Advances on International Economics

Edited By: Carmen Díaz-Roldán, Javier Perote

£52.99

The recent financial crisis has challenged accepted economic paradigms. This book offers a broad overview of recent developments in international economics, providing new theories, empirical insights, and practical policy recommendations.

International Economic Law

The Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Edited By: Won-mog Choi

£57.99

Experts assess the past 20 years of international economic law and forecast its future. This book provides vital insights into how to respond to challenges, reform the WTO, and improve multilateral trading governance for the twenty-first century.

Emerging Services Sector and Inclusiveness

Evidence from India

Edited By: Pralok Gupta

£47.99

India’s services sector drives GDP and exports, but its failure to create jobs questions its inclusive growth. This book analyzes the sector's role in the Indian economy, examining key issues like employment, trade, and foreign direct investment.

India’s services sector drives GDP and exports, but its failure to create jobs questions its inclusive growth. This book analyzes the sector’s role in the Indian economy, examining key issues like employment, trade, and foreign direct investment.

Power and Communication

Media, Politics and Institutions in Times of Crisis

Edited By: Giovanni Ciofalo, Silvia Leonzi, Antonio Di Stefano

£41.99

This book explores the relationship between power and the media in Western societies. The media exercise symbolic force, but are also subject to political and economic influence. This relationship is paradoxically as strict as it is opaque.

Contemporary Development Issues in Nigeria

Edited By: Olayinka Akanle, A.O. Olutayo, A.O. Omobowale

£47.99

Africa confronts daunting developmental challenges despite abundant resources. Existing analysis is often generic and misinformed. This book uses Nigeria—a resource-rich yet poor nation—to provide informed research with implications for the entire continent.

Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy

Global Challenges and Opportunities to Global Stability

Edited By: Filiz Katman

£47.99

This book covers both sides of the debate on climate change, environment and energy. Articles discuss these issues from a multidimensional perspective, elaborating upon their interdependence and the global challenges and opportunities for sustainability.

The Rightful Way of Banking

By: Shahid M. K. Ghauri, Omar Masood

£47.99

This book explains the philosophies behind the global trend in riba-free (interest-free) banking. It covers the fundamentals, financial models, risk management, and international institutions related to this system, recognised as “Islamic banking”.

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management

Edited By: Pascal Gantenbein, Simone Westerfeld, Beatrix Wullschleger

£47.99

Analyze credit risk from all angles: the lender-borrower relationship, market pricing, and financial stability. This book offers sophisticated models and expert analysis to navigate the challenges of today's global financial network.

Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid

Africa’s Experience

Edited By: J. Oloka-Onyango, Nicolas van de Walle

£52.99

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.

Development, Environment and Sustainable Livelihood

Edited By: Soumyendra Kishore Datta, Atanu Sengupta

£52.99

This book explores sustainable livelihood as a key to development beyond mere poverty reduction. It examines strategies for enhancing assets, covering socio-developmental aspects, natural resources, the farm and non-farm sectors, and gender.

Still Waiting for Tomorrow

The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises

Edited By: Susan Akram, Tom Syring

£49.99

This book is a critical examination of protracted refugee situations. Leading scholars analyze the root causes of these extended crises, from war to statelessness, addressing the political and legal tensions that undermine potential solutions.

The Image of a Country created by International Media

The Case of Bulgaria

By: Elena Tarasheva

£39.99

How does ex-communist Europe come across through the Western media? This book analyzes five years of BBC coverage on Bulgaria, revealing hidden attitudes. Bulgarians are construed as “immigrants,” not “ex-pats,” and associated with CORRUPTION, POOR, and POOREST.

Women’s Political Visibility and Media Access

The Case of Nigeria

Edited By: Oladokun Omojola

£39.99

Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women's political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.

Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women’s political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.

Performance of Public and Private Mining Firms in India

In Productivity, Environmental and Social Dimensions

By: Amarendra Das

£39.99

Are private mining firms in India better than public ones? This book compares their productivity, environmental, and social compliance. It finds private firms are more productive, but both sectors fail to comply with environmental and social regulations.

Cities to be Tamed? Spatial Investigations across the Urban South

Edited By: Beatrice De Carli, Francesco Chiodelli, Maddalena Falletti

£44.99

Across the global South, urban space triggers social conflict but also creates new possibilities for activism. These cross-disciplinary essays explore the complex relationship between planning, politics, and power, asking a central question: are cities to be tamed?

Legitimacy and Effectiveness in Global Economic Governance

Edited By: Biagio Bossone, Susanna Cafaro, Maria Chiara Malaguti

£54.99

The 2007 financial crisis revealed the fallibility of our global economic system. This book offers a critical view, examining the relations between State sovereignty and markets while investigating gaps in major international organizations like the IMF and WTO.

Public Space in Informal Settlements

The Barrios of Bogotá

By: Jaime Hernández-García

£44.99

This book views Bogotá's informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios' social dynamics. An insider's perspective.

This book views Bogotá’s informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios’ social dynamics. An insider’s perspective.

Public Service Media in the Digital Age

International Perspectives

Edited By: Agnes Gulyás, Ferenc Hammer

£39.99

Public service media are in dramatic transformation. This book provides analysis of the key issues from an international perspective, bringing together leading researchers to explore the future of broadcasting and the new participatory roles of audiences.