Development Economics
-
Add to Wish List
Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Edited by Paresha Sinha, Jenny Gibb, Michèle Akoorie, Jonathan M. Scott
This Research Handbook offers contextualized perspectives on entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Emphasizing how national context profoundly shapes incentives for entrepreneurial efforts, chapters dissect the opportunities emerging f...eBook:Find out more$48.00
-
Add to Wish List
Handbook on Global Value Chains
Edited by Stefano Ponte, Gary Gereffi, Gale Raj-Reichert
Global value chains (GVCs) are a key feature of the global economy in the 21st century. They show how international investment and trade create cross-border production networks that link countries, firms and workers around the globe. Thi...eBook:Find out more$55.96
-
Add to Wish List
Standing up for a Sustainable World
Edited by Claude Henry, Johan Rockström, Nicholas Stern
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life ... -
Add to Wish List
Handbook of Social Policy and Development
Edited by James Midgley, Rebecca Surender, Laura Alfers
The Handbook of Social Policy and Development makes a groundbreaking, coherent case for enhancing collaboration between social policy and development. With wide ranging chapters, it discusses a myriad of ways in which this can be done, e...eBook:Find out more$58.36
-
Add to Wish List
A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance
Edited by Marek Hudon, Marc Labie, Ariane Szafarz
How can financial services, such as credit, deposit accounts, financial transfers, and insurance be provided to people in need? This challenging and complex issue has been a topic of interest for the international aid community for decad...eBook:Find out more$33.60
-
Add to Wish List
Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Rolph van der Hoeven
This timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient d...eBook:Find out more$33.60
-
Add to Wish List
Advanced Introduction to National Innovation Systems
Cristina Chaminade, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Shagufta Haneef
Since its emergence in the 1980s the national innovation system (NIS) concept has become widely used by scholars and policymakers alike. In the course of its rapid diffusion it has provoked controversy on fundamental issues. Where did NI...eBook:Find out more$22.76
-
Add to Wish List
Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development
Edited by Erik S. Reinert, Jayati Ghosh, Rainer Kattel
The Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development explores the theories and approaches which, over a prolonged period of time, have existed as viable alternatives to today’s mainstream and neo-classical tenets. With a total of...eBook:Find out more$66.40
-
Add to Wish List
Advanced Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis
Robert J. Brent
This concise yet comprehensive introduction aims to outline the core principles of Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA), laying them out in an accessible manner with minimum technical detail. The applied nature of the subject is emphasized by sho...eBook:Find out more$25.16
-
Add to Wish List
Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid
Edited by B. Mak Arvin, Byron Lew
It would be fair to say that foreign aid today is one of the most important factors in international relations and in the national economy of many countries – as well as one of the most researched fields in economics. Although much has b...eBook:Find out more$57.60
-
Add to Wish List
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries
Tilman Altenburg, Wilfried Lütkenhorst
Against the backdrop of persistently high levels of poverty and inequality, critical environmental boundaries and increasing global economic interdependence, this book addresses the role and impact of industrial policies in developing co...eBook:Find out more$35.20
-
Add to Wish List
Living Wages Around the World
Richard Anker, Martha Anker
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in ...