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  • China for Africa's Industrialization?

    by Carlos Oya ...
    Series series Elements in Global China
    China's engagement in Africa since 2000 consists of a diverse set of institutions, activities, relations, investment flows and other economic statecraft events. These have generated opportunities for economic transformation, reviving the prospects for industrialization and job creation in some African countries following decades of neglect. While the case for industrialization-led structural ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy

    by Carlos Oya, Ramola Ramtohul, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook on the Mauritian Economy presents a comprehensive analysis of the economic, social, and political landscape of the island, offering a nuanced exploration of its historical evolution, current challenges, and future prospects. Adopting a multidisciplinary lens, the handbook delves into the complexities of the Mauritian economy, addressing the development pathway of the country ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries

    Theory, Evidence, and Policy

    Edited by Carlos Oya, Nicola Pontara ...
    Series series Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
    There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors who boast substantial field experience researching rural wage employment in various developing countries. It provides critical perspectives on mainstream approaches to rural/agrarian development, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Development Without Aid

    The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora

    by David A. Phillips ...
    “Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique of foreign aid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty.The book aims to help move the discussion beyond ... Read more

    $22.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quality of Growth in Africa

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Ravi Kanbur ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus on sub-Saharan countries.Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Global Governance And Rules For The Post-2015 Era

    Addressing Emerging Issues In The Global Environment

    Edited by Jose Antonio Alonso, José Antonio Ocampo ...
    Series series The United Nations Series on Development
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international environment, suggesting that the world emerging from the recent economic ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Africa First!

    Igniting a Growth Revolution

    by Jakkie Cilliers ...
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and models fundamental ... Read more

    $9.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Global Regulation

    Edited by Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods ...
    Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Fredrik Sjöholm, José Tongzon ...
    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    This book examines the institutional changes taking place in, and challenges facing, the region since 1997. It also describes various differences in the reform process between countries in the region. Sjöholm and Tongzon argue that the economies of southeast Asia need to reform their institutions if the previous rapid development is to continue. The institutional weaknesses have been addressed to ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with Aid

    Why Less Could Mean More for Africa

    by Jonathan Glennie ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have joined campaigns to persuade their governments to double aid to Africa and help put an end to such shameful inequality.It seems simple. But it isn't. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Asian Business and Management

    Theory, Practice and Perspectives

    by Harukiyo Hasegawa, Michael A. Witt ...
    The third edition of this core textbook, edited and contributed to by recognised international authorities on the subject, outlines the critical contextual and theoretical issues of business and management in Asia and offers a fresh, topical analysis of management in the major Asian nations. Featuring an accessible two-part structure and updated with the latest research, the book will enable ... Read more

    $76.99 USD