Development economics Books

Book Synopsis1. The Ideology of the BRI.- 2. The determinants of China's participation in the financing of infrastructure and public services in Africa.- 3. Money is the anthem of success: A Big Data Approach to Exploring the Role of BATX Companies in the Internationalisation of the Yuan.- 4. China's One Belt One Road Initiative: Master Plan of China to become a Superpower through economic technology.- 5. The New Silk Road: A tool for China's Global Leadership in Africa?.- 6. Marginal States in the BRI: a New Economic Nationalist Outlook on China in South Africa.- 7. Comparing the US, Brazil, and China in African Energy Markets, 2008-2019: The long-term Effects of Self-Sufficiency.- 8. China's Interventions in Special Economic Zones of Maritime Belt and Road Initiative.- 9. Nasty, brutish and substandard': An examination of China's Belt and Road Initiative Projects in Africa.- 10. BRI and Transfer of Chinese Digital Technology in Higher Education in Cameroon.- 11. The importance of African countries in the development of electromobility in China.- 12. African Media and the BRI: Kenya and Ghana in Comparative Perspective, 2013-2020.- 13. The "Belt and Road Initiative" a strategy to the rescue of Senegal? Questioning the concept of 'emergence' through Macky Sall's operational code.- 14. Delivering Technologies of Surveillance : China, the BRI and the Futures of Security in Africa : The Role of "Cameroon Intelligent City Project".- 15. BRI and Tranfer of Chinese Digital Technology in Higher Education in Cameroon.- 16. Infrastructures for Development? What transfer of Technologies Do Not Tell us About? Interpreting Tanzania-China Relations During and Post John Magufuli Presidency.- 17. The imbroglio of the transboundary Mbalam-Nabeba ore iron project between Cameroon and Congo : an opportunity for the extension of the belt road initiative.- 18. Chinese Diasporas in the BRI: The Case of Madagascar and South-Africa.- 19. Merchants or Decoys: Ethnic Chinese Diaspora in the BRI Route.- 20. The Effects of Arab Springs in the BRI: The Counter-Terrorism Strategy of the Belt and Road China's Initiative".- 21. Impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative on Pacific Island Countries: Providing Economic and Political Opportunities.- 22. Polar silk way in the context of sino-russian cooperation.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 Introduction The Rising Importance of Sustainable Finance: A Crucial Global Priority.- Section 1Impact & Transparency.- Chapter 2 Sustainable finance and impact investments in micro-small and medium enterprises: the role of financial literacy.- Chapter 3 A social impact measurement tool developed for social enterprises.- Chapter 4 Unlocking transparency: harnessing blockchain for anti-money laundering in alternative assets. The case of fine art and real estate.- Chapter 5 Transparency during M&A transactions: does it reward or discount? An empirical study.- Chapter 6 How to deal with tax avoidance in sustainable finance?.- Chapter 7 ESG, Sustainability and Materiality Analysis In The Factoring Supply Chain.- Section 2 Products & Markets.- Chapter 8 ESG European framework in the Italian leasing industry: a textual analysis.- Chapter 9 One step forward, one step back: sustainable securitisations before and after the EU Green Bond Standard.

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Book Synopsis1. Conceptualising a Keynesian demand led model to explain long run growth the dance between supply and demand.- 2. The primary macro explanators of Pakistan's GDP growth over the past half century: the dance between investment and consumption.- 3. Explaining investment growth: the dance between investment and public investment.- 4. Explaining public investment growth the dance with fiscal deficits.- 5. Policy Implications dancing over deficits.

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Book Synopsis1. The question of the developmental state paradigm– a brief assessment for the period 2014-2024.- 2. Indonesian economy in key figures.- 3. Maintaining speed and avoiding dependence? The dilemmas of external financing and savings.- 4. Increasing domestic value? The modernization of the economy.- 5. Building fast and cheap infrastructure in an island nation.- 6. Taking advantage of the demography dividends.- 7. Achieving strategic autonomy – balancing between foreign policy and economic development goals.- 8. Summary.

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Book Synopsis1. Development banking in the history of economic development.- 2. Development finance and financial development in economic theory and policy: the importance of institutions.- 3. The static perspective: transactions and governance.- 4. The dynamic perspective: habits and cognition.- 5. An institutional model of development banking.- 6. The Greek economy 1950s 2020s: The great transformation.- 7. Institutional development and alternative financial regimes.- 8. The classical period of development banking in Greece (1963-2002).- 9. The 2003-2017 interval in development finance and the revival of development banking in Greece within the European context (2018 today).- 10. Conclusions and policy implications.

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Book SynopsisIn the closing years of the 19th century, the Japanese decided they should modernize economically without culturally westernizing, and they succeeded. Following de-colonization, Africans also pursued the goal of achieving economic modernization without cultural westernization. To some extent, however, Africa became westernized culturally, but failed to attain economic modernization. How can we explain Africa’s failure and Japan’s success? The book addresses these issues from a variety of perspectives also in relation to economic interactions between Africa and Japan and Africa’s place in Japan’s diplomacy and academic discourse.Table of ContentsForeword Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo Editors Introduction S. Adem 1. Meiji Japan as a Model for Africa’s Economic Development E. Wayne Nafziger 2. TICAD after Ten Years: A Preliminary Assessment and Proposals for the Future Shinsuke Horiuchi 3. Japan and Africa after the Cold War Jun Morikawa 4. Education and Modernization: An Examination of the Experiences of Japan and Ethiopia Getachew Felleke 5. Nigeria's Fledgling Friendship with Japan: The Beginning of a 'Special Partnership'? Kweku Ampiah 6. Japanese Contribution to Malaysian Economic Development: Lessons for Africa Toyomu Masaki 7. "Perversion de l'Histoire": George Balandier, his disciples, and African History in Japan John Edward Philips 8. Is Japan's Cultural Experience Relevant for Africa's Development? Seifudein Adem Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHealth and healing are distinctive domains as far as the pursuit of people’s well-being is concerned. In Africa, both fields have increasingly become subject to monetization and commodification, in short, the market. Based on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries by scholars with diverse academic backgrounds, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets and the way medical staff, patients, households and institutions navigate them in their quest for well-being. By presenting a detailed economic ethnography of this multifacetted process of navigating the market, the book sets a new agenda for research as a result of the current predicaments facing health and healing in African societies.Table of ContentsContents Maps vii Tables vii Figures ix Photographs ix Boxes x 1 Introduction: Economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa 1 Rijk van Dijk & Marleen Dekker 2 Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and the commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeris 19 Akinyinka Akinyoade & Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi 3 Organizing monies: The reality and creativity of nursing on a hospital ward in Ghana 46 Christine Böhmig 4 Market forces threatening school feeding: The case for school farming in Nakuru town, Kenya 79 Dick Foeken, Wijnand Klaver, Samuel O. Owuor & Alice M. Mwangi 5 Dashed hopes and missed opportunities: Malaria control policies in Kenya (1896-2009) 109 Kenneth Ombongi & Marcel Rutten 6 The market for healing and the elasticity of belief: Medical pluralism in Mpumalanga, South Africa 144 Robert Thornton 7 Medicinal knowledge and healing practices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria 173 Walter E.A. van Beek 8 The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness 201 Nadine Beckmann 9 Individual or shared responsibility: The financing of medical treatment in rural Ethiopian households 228 Marleen Dekker 10 Can’t buy me health: Financial constraints and health-seeking behaviour in rural households in Central Togo 255 André Leliveld, Corine ‘t Hart, Jérémie Gnimadi & Marleen Dekker 11 Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana 282 Rijk van Dijk List of authors 307

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Book SynopsisIn History of Korean Modern Retailing Jong-Hyun Yi shows how the Korean retail industry has developed since the 1970s, focusing on the relationship among government, consumers and retail companies, especially the department store. While generally it is said that underdevelopment of the Korean retail industry in the 1970s was attributed to economic immaturity, he argues it was artificially formed by strong consumption repression by the government. He also examines how consumption repression contributed to economic growth. Such initial condition in developmental period is a crucial factor to explain other distinctions like explosive growth and remarkably short heyday of the department store afterward. With this, Jong-Hyun Yi traces the correlation between economic growth and stratification of the consumption since the 1970s. He proves that equality or inequality of consumption is a more influential factor for economic growth than that of income.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together in a comparative analysis the results of studies of the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies’ experiences of how people negotiated the spaces and times of being in transit on the road to prosperity. The book analyses the various outcomes of the process of mobility and the experience of spaces and times of transit across gender, generational, and class-differences. These experiences are explored and give insight into the socio-cultural and economics transformations that have taken place in African societies in the past century. Contributors are: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Walter van Beek, Marleen Dekker, Ton Dietz, Rijk van Dijk, Isaie Dougnon, Jan-Bart Gewald, Meike de Goede, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko, Samuel Ntewusu Aniegye, Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin, Shehu Tijjani Yusuf, Augustine Tanle and Amisah Zenabu Bakuri.Table of ContentsPART 1 Introduction 1 African Roads to Prosperity: People en Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations Jan-Bart Gewald & Akinyinka Akinyoade 2 Roads to Prosperity: Social Zones of Transit Amisah Zenabu Bakuri 3 Roads to Prosperity: Reflections about a Concept Ton Dietz PART 2 Zones of Transit 4 Wenela, Katima Mulilo, a Zone of Transit in Barotseland: The Development of a Holding Zone for Migrants on the Extreme Frontier of the South African Empire Jan-Bart Gewald 5 ‘Trapped’ in the North: Southern Migrants in Northern Nigeria, 1908–1970s Shehu Tijjani Yusuf 6 Migration and Competition around Commercial Spaces: The Case of Songhay Migrants at the Kumasi Central Market, Ghana 1930–1948 Isaie Dougnon 7 Resettlement in Zimbabwe: Final Destination from the Zones of Transition? Marleen Dekker PART 3 Zones of Transference 8 A Romantic Zone of Transference? Botswana, Ghanaian Migrants and Marital Social Mobility Rijk van Dijk 9 The Opportunities of the Margin: The Kapsiki Smith and his Road to Prosperity Walter van Beek 10 Migrants’ Assessment of Prospects in Migration: A Case Study of Conservancy Labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana Augustine Tanle & Benjamin Kofi Nyarko 11 Coercion or Volition: Making Sense of the Experiences of Female Victims of Trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin & Akinyinka Akinyoade PART 4 Zones of Transit and Transference 12 So be nya dagna? (‘Is someone injured?’): The Evolution and Use of Tricycles in Tamale, Northern Ghana Samuel Ntewusu & Edward Nanbigne 13 Nigerians in Transit: The Trader and the Religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana Akinyinka Akinyoade 14 Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a transit zone Amisah Zenabu Bakuri 15 Kinshasa: A city of refugees Meike de Goede List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book follows the renovation of European economic history towards a more unified interpretation of sources of growth and stagnation. It looks at Portuguese agricultural development across the second Millennium, showing a sector that was often adaptive and dynamic. Portugal’s economic backwardness was not overcome at the end of the period, but that is now only part of the story.Trade Review"A pioneering collaborative effort, based largely on a rich but 'hidden' literature in Portuguese. It opens the distinctive and fascinating history of Portuguese agriculture over a millennium to the outside world." – Cormac O’ Grada, University College Dublin "This book is a very significant contribution to the economic history of Europe.Since the formation of Portugal to the present, it offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Portuguese agriculture by the best specialists in the subject." – Vicente Pinilla, University of ZaragozaTable of ContentsList of Maps, Tables and Graphs Notes on the Contributors Introduction Dulce Freire and Pedro Lains Part I – State formation and Malthusian growth Chapter 1 – The Reconquista and its legacy, 1000-1348 António Henriques Introduction The Reconquista Institutional developments Cities, markets and agrotowns Production and productivity Conclusion Chapter 2 – The Black Death and recovery, 1348-1500 Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Introduction Plague, war and demographic decline The reversal of fortunes Commercialization The impact of the overseas expansion Conclusion Part II – New frontiers, crisis and growth Chapter 3 – Coping with Europe and the Empire, 1500-1620 Susana Münch Miranda Introduction Population pressure and urban expansion Institutional framework and output cycles The landscape and the production structure The marketplace Conclusion Chapter 4 – Conflict and decline, 1620-1703 Margarida Sobral Neto Introduction Domestic settlements and emigration Colonial trade Subsistence farming and the market Output cycles Conclusion Chapter 5 – Extensive growth and market expansion, 1703-1820 José Vicente Serrão Introduction The rural landscape The macroeconomic context Grain issues Property rights Conclusion Chapter 6 – Gross agricultural output: a quantitative, unified perspective, 1500-1850 Jaime Reis Introduction Method and data Trend, cycles and short term fluctuations Are the results consistent? Conclusion Part III – Growth, structural change and economic policy Chapter 7 – Growth and structural change, 1820-1929 Amélia Branco and Ester G. Silva Introduction Land, output and productivity Institutional change Agrarian innovation Conclusion Chapter 8 – Economic policy, growth and the demise, 1929-2000 Luciano Amaral and Dulce Freire Introduction Quantitative evolution Protectionism State and corporatist organizations The Common Agricultural Policy Conclusion Part IV – Lessons from the second Millennium Chapter 9 – Agriculture and economic development on the European frontier, 1000-2000 Pedro Lains Introduction Lessons from the European frontier Convergence and divergence in European agriculture Conclusion Appendix – Maps and data for climate, relief, administrative divisions, urbanization, agricultural output and infrastructures in Portugal, 1000-2000 Index

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Book SynopsisHistorically, entrepreneurs have always played a central role in the development of nation states. Aside from rentier states, which depend extensively on the availability of mineral resource rents, most economically prosperous nations in the world have strong, innovative and competitive business enterprises and entrepreneurs as the bedrock of their economic development and prosperity. It was arguably because of the above historical fact that the World Bank in 1989 declared that entrepreneurs will play a central role in transforming African economies. Chapters in this book contribute to our understanding of the theory, structure and practice of entrepreneurship in diverse African countries. Case studies examined include: African multinational banks and businesses, female entrepreneurs, culture and entrepreneurship, finance and entrepreneurship and SMEs. Contributors include: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Kenneth Amaeshi, Crescence Marie France Okah Atenga, Ton Dietz, Françoise Okah Efogo, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Abel Ezeoha, Yagoub Ali Gangi, Miguel Heilbron, Uwafiokun Idemudia, Nsubili Isaga, Afam Ituma, Jane N. O. Khayesi, Rebecca I. Kiconco, Jerry Kolo, Peter Knorringa, Addisu Lashitew, André Leliveld, Marta Lindvert, Nnamdi Madichie, Hesham E. Mohamed, Knowledge C. Mpofu, Albogast Kilangi Musabila, Ayodeji Olukoju, Eunice Abam Quaye, Miriam Siun, Arthur Sserwanga, Rob van Tulder, Chibuike Uche and Jaap Voeten.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and Chibuike Uche Part 1: Examination of Related Theories and Innovations 2 Methodological Challenges of Entrepreneurship Research in the Least Developed East African Countries  Emiel L. Eijdenberg 3 Africapitalism: A Management Idea for Business in Africa?  Kenneth Amaeshi and Uwafiokun Idemudia 4 Inclusive Business in Africa: Priorities, Strategies and Challenges  Addisu A. Lashitew and Rob van Tulder 5 Innovation as a Key to Success? Case Studies of Innovative Start-ups in Kenya and Nigeria  Miguel Heilbron, André Leliveld and Peter Knorringa 6 Innovation in Manufacturing smes in Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania: A Grounded View on the Research and Policy Issues  Jaap Voeten Part 2: Entrepreneurship Development, Country Studies 7 An Institutional Analysis of Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria  Abel Ezeoha and Afam Ituma 8 Entrepreneurship Development in Africa: Insights from Nigeria’s and Zimbabwe’s Telecoms  Nnamdi O. Madichie, Knowledge Mpofu and Jerry Kolo 9 The Development of Entrepreneurship in Sudan 209  Yagoub Ali Gangi and Hesham E. Mohammed 10 Challenges to Entrepreneurship Development in Tanzania  Nsubili Isaga and Albogast Musabila 11 Institutional and Contextual Factors Effects on Entrepreneurship in Cameroon: The Case of the Transport Sector  Françoise Okah-Efogo and Crescence Marie-France Okah-Atenga Part 3: Entrepreneurship and Sectoral Considerations or Determinants 12 Dangote Cement: The Challenges of Pan-African Expansion  Akinyinka Akinyoade and Chibuike Uche 13 Culture as a Facilitator and a Barrier to Entrepreneurship Development in Uganda  Jane N.O. Khayesi, Arthur Sserwanga and Rebecca Kiconco 14 African Women Large-Scale Entrepreneurs: Cases from Angola, Nigeria and Ghana  Miriam Siun, Akinyinka Akinyoade and Ewurabena Quaye 15 Financial Barriers and How to Overcome Them: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania  Marta Lindvert 16 Gentlemanly Capitalism and Entrepreneurial Management: Formation and Rise of Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank, 1990–2002  Ayodeji Olukoju 17 Indigenous Banking Enterprises: The Rise of Nigerian Multinational Banks  Chibuike Uche

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Book SynopsisIn this new book on Africa-China relations, Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol strongly engages in the heated debates on African cooperation with China, an increassingly rich and powerful partner. The current dominant view highlights the neo-colonial and exploitative nature of these relations with a denial of any positive results for African people. However, the growing China-Africa partnership took its roots at Bandung 1955 conference, to culminate with an overt competition between China and other nations over African resources. For many, "a new scramble for Africa" emerges. The author argues there is rather a "global scramble for China," a fierce battle to get the PRC's kind attention. Africa is right to engage the struggle to access China's development funding. Africa may wish to avoid being distracted by rival voices, but to endeavor doing its own homework and rehearse for the global competiton, in the only interest of African people. Mbaidjol's book unpacks Africa's preparedness and rehearsal strategy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Call to Action for Africa 2. The Founding Principles of South-South Cooperation 3. The Shift Toward ‘Multi-polarity’ 4. BRICS: New Dimensions of China’s International Cooperation 5. China and Its Neighbors: Lessons for Africa 6. Asian Regional Institutions, and Implications for Africa 7. Examining China’s Foreign Aid 8. A Closer Look at Sino-African Trade 9. Chinese ‘Neocolonialism’: Fact or Fiction? 10. Gaps and Opportunities in Sino-African Cooperation 11. Harmonizing Legal and Administrative Infrastructures in Africa Conclusion: The Way Forward Bibliography

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Book Synopsis"This volume in the Mansholt series presents state of the art discussions on a wide variety of topics in the field of (agricultural) development. More than 20 chapters have been prepared by internationally known scholars and policy analysts, providing a concise overview of a variety of recent debates in development economics. While the background of most contributors is in economic science, the chapters are prepared so that they feed into ongoing policy discussions and are accessible to a wide readership. The contributions in this volume are organized around five themes: prospects for rural poverty alleviation, sustainable management of natural resources, strategies for enhancing food security, markets and the role of the state, and institutions and governance. It is obvious there are many links between these themes, and indeed the integration between them is emphasized in various chapters. This book is prepared as a festschrift or Liber Amicorum for professor Arie Kuyvenhoven. His retirement from the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands is a good opportunity to take stock of recent developments in the area of agricultural development economics. Therefore, in addition to being a valuable source of information for readers with an interest in development, this volume is also intended as a farewell gift: to Arie, from friends and colleagues."

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Book Synopsis"This book discusses the links between land access, property rights, and economic development, analyzing the results and limitations of a public intervention- Land Titling and Registration- that constitutes one of the main instruments for contemporary land policy in Peru. It attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the importance of institutions, like land property rights, in the context of market liberalization reforms. In operational terms, this means verifying whether land titling constitutes a necessary and/or sufficient condition to promote investments and increase land values. This book reveals that titling and registration can be considered as a necessary condition to improve investment opportunities when its implementation procedure is based on the recognition of previous informal land rights and community networks, because its effect on the reduction of transaction costs at a regional level improves the dynamics of land markets and facilitates the entrance of formal financial institutions. A decentralized program is more likely to understand and correctly assess local conditions, as well as to concentrate its work on poorer farmers confronting stronger limitations to acquire tenure security by other means. Targeting must be applied also at the regional level, identifying less-developed areas that can benefit from the externality effects provided by increased levels of titling density. The presence of other limitations that constrain the participation of small farmers in the formal credit market, and the inability of titling to solve them by itself, makes it difficult to consider this policy as a sufficient condition to improve the livelihood of poorer farmers. Complementary policies that provide small farmers with the opportunity to increase their land-holdings, as well as the possibility to acquire insurance against negative shocks, need urgent implementation."

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, rural smallholders have formed various forms of associations to confront access-barriers to the market. It is estimated that 250 million farmers participate in agricultural cooperatives in developing countries. Agricultural cooperatives are considered to be a fundamental pillar of rural development strategies, as well as a core institution in the process of governance decentralization and agri-business development. In Ethiopia, where agro-ecological conditions are generally favourable, 85 percent of the national population lives in rural areas under subsistence or semi-subsistence regimes. Agricultural cooperatives are advocated by the government as key market institutions to exploit Ethiopia's agricultural growth potential. The scope of this study is to improve the understanding of the role played by cooperative organizations in linking Ethiopian smallholder farmers to emerging markets. Through exploring the evolution of supermarkets, integrated supply chains, and global commodity exchange networks, this study sheds light on the relationship between rural cooperation and farmers' competitiveness. Quantitative data that form the basis for this study were collected from the Highland regions of Ethiopia, in the period between 2003 and 2006. Findings suggest that cooperatives are not a panacea to boost rural competitiveness. Collective action assists smallholders in procuring state subsidy for production, but does not necessarily lead to increased commercialization. Only when collective action involves collective marketing do farmers become more commercial, further improving production volumes and productivity. However, in the process of commercialization and production intensification quality management is often neglected in Ethiopian agricultural cooperatives. This study reveals guidelines for public-private partnerships so that cooperative farmers can maximize commercialization and optimize the balance between quality and productivity.

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