Development economics Books

Book SynopsisThis insightful book explores the economic conditions and policy response of four major East Asian economies in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis.Table of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND FINANCIAL CRISIS 1. The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for Taiwan Sheng-Cheng Hu 2. A Perspective on the US Dollar after the Current Financial Crisis: Lessons from the Fall of the Pound Sterling and the Gold Standard after World War I Lee-Rong Wang 3. De-Privatization? Case Studies of Government Banks’ Performance in Developing Countries During the Financial Crisis Chung-Hua Shen and Chih-Yung Lin PART II: IMPACTS, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY RESPONSES 4. Why World Exports are so Susceptible to the Economic Crisis: The Prevailing ‘Export Overshooting’ Phenomenon, with Particular Reference to Taiwan Bih Jane Liu 5. The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Taiwanese Economy and its Industrial Policy in Response Jiann-Chyuan Wang and Chia-Hui Lin 6. The American Crisis and Korean Financial Distress Un Chan Chung 7. Why Was Japan Hit So Hard by the Global Financial Crisis? Masahiro Kawai and Shinji Takagi 8. China’s Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis Yongding Yu PART III: POLICY CONSTRAINTS 9. Fiscal Discipline in the Recovery from a Global Financial Crisis Chih-Chin Ho, Yu-Shan Hsu and Ching-Shin Mao 10. A Challenge to Sustainable Development: The Dual Crisis of Energy and the Economy Daigee Shaw and Pi Chen Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume, a collection of both theoretical essays and empirical studies, presents an Austrian economics perspective on the role of culture in economic action. The authors illustrate that culture cannot be separated from economic action, but that it is in fact part of all decision-making.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Laura E. Grube and Virgil Henry Storr PART I THEORIZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 2. Economists Should Study Culture Virgil Henry Storr 3. The Discovery and Interpretation of Profit Opportunities: Culture and the Kirznerian Entrepreneur Don Lavoie 4. The Determinants of Entrepreneurial Alertness and the Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs Virgil Henry Storr and Arielle John 5. Markets as an Extension of Culture Emily Chamlee-Wright 6. Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne and Peter T. Leeson 7. How does Culture Influence Economic Development? Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright 8. Context Matters: The Importance of Time and Place in Economic Narratives Virgil Henry Storr 9. A Critical Appraisal of the Concept of Cultural Capital Virgil Henry Storr 10. Culture as a Constitution Arielle John 11. Weber’s Spirit of Capitalism and the Bahamas’ Junkanoo Ethic Virgil Henry Storr PART II UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC LIFE BY USING CULTURE 12. Pastor Response in Post-Katrina New Orleans: Navigating the Cultural Economic Landscape Emily Chamlee-Wright 13. National Cultures, Economic Action and the Homogeneity Problem. Insights from the Case of Romania Paul Dragos Aligica and Aura Matei 14. Between Community and Society: Political Attitudes in Transition Countries Petrik Runst 15. Subalternity and Entrepreneurship. Tales of Marginalized but Enterprising Characters, Oppressive Settings and Haunting Plots Virgil Henry Storr and Bridget Colon 16. Indigenous African Institutions and Economic Development Emily Chamlee-Wright 17. The Role of Culture in the Persistence of Traditional Leadership: Evidence from Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Laura E. Grube 18. Network Closure, Group Identity and Attitudes toward Merchants Ryan Langrill and Virgil Henry Storr 19. The Cultural and Political Economy of Drug Prohibition Kyle W. O’Donnell 20. Cultural and Institutional Co-determination: the Case of Legitimacy in Exchange in Diablo II Solomon Stein Index

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Book SynopsisThe thoroughly revised second edition of this authoritative Handbook, complete with new chapters, comprehensively examines the current status and future directions of model-based systems in decision support and their application to sustainable development planning.Trade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘The Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning is perfect for readers in different professions who deal with planning and development management. It contains interesting theoretical considerations, provokes discussion, and provides new perspectives for the analysis of sustainable development processes. The cases presented illustrate the complexity of the issues relating to sustainable development and show how modeling can support policy and decision making processes.’ -- Miroslaw Grochowski, Geographia PolonicaTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: MODELLING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Application of Decision Support Tools in Sustainable Development Planning: Review and Analysis M.A. Quaddus and M.A.B. Siddique 2. Modelling Sustainable Development Ian Moffatt 3. Measuring Sustainable Development Ian Moffatt 4. Modelling Long-term Sustainability Kaoru Yamaguchi 5. Economics, Ecology and GMOs: Sustainability, Precaution and Related Issues Clem Tisdell PART II: CASE STUDIES Environmental Management 6. Decision Support for Environmental Disaster Planning Aybüke Aurum, Meliha Handzic and Christine Van Toorn 7. Using Data Envelopment Analysis for Ecoefficiency Evaluation Joseph Sarkis and Srinivas Talluri Mining 8. Hierarchical Framework for Evaluating Mine Projects for Sustainability: A Case Study from India M.A. Quaddus and Kampan Mukherjee Energy Management 9. Resources, Pollution and Sustainable Energy Policies: The Case of Pakistan Hassan Qudrat-Ullah Land and Water Management 10. Modeling Sustainable Water Prices Pawel Bartoszczuk Agriculture 11. Dynamics and Sustainability of Mediterranean Traditional Irrigated Lands Julia Martínez Fernández, Miguel Angel Esteve Selma, Isabel Banos, Francisca Carreño and Angeles Moreno Aquaculture 12. Aquaculture and Sustainable Development: Allowing for Environmental Externalities and Common-pool Resources Clem Tisdell Infrastructure 13. Decision Support Systems for Ecosystems Management: A Singerian Approach to Urban Infrastructure Decision Making James F. Courtney, Sandra Richardson and David Paradice 14. Infrastructure Development as a Policy Lever for Sustainable Development Khalid Saeed and Honggang Xu PART III: FUTURE DIRECTIONS 15. Sustainable Development Planning and DSS Tools: What’s Next? M.A.B. Siddique and M.A. Quaddus Index

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Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking book contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. It does so by combining the two issues of policy evaluation and sustainable development linking both to the policy-cycle.Trade Review‘Compared to other collections in this ?eld, Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making, Theory, Practise and Quality Assurance is straightforward in its style and writing. . . There are no strange hypotheses, no jargon, no digressions, and no endless dis-cussion. The quality of the argumentation deployed here is impressive: the notes, ?gures, and remarks about research results are detailed and carefully crafted.’ -- Yves Laberge, Science & Public Policy‘This thought-provoking and wide-ranging handbook covers a very wide range of multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development and is a worthy addition to the bookshelf of those working in this area, whether they be evaluators, researchers, students or indeed the policy-makers themselves.’ -- Keith Dawson, Experimental AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Frieder Rubik, Anneke von Raggamby and Anna Hirschbeck PART I: PERCEPTION OF SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEMS 1. Understanding Sustainability Evaluation and its Contributions to Policy-Making Reinhard Stockmann 2. How to Select Policy-Relevant Indicators for Sustainable Development Frank J. Dietz and Albert H. Hanemaaijer 3. Should Evaluation be Revisited for Sustainable Development? Wolfgang Meyer PART II: POLICY FORMATION: THE ROLE OF EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT 4. A Basic Roadmap for Sustainability Assessments: The SIMPLE Methodology Candice Stevens 5. Political Challenges in Policy-Level Evaluation for Sustainable Development: The Case of Trade Policy Clive George and Colin Kirkpatrick 6. Integrated Approaches for Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Tools: The Example of Land Use Katharina Helming, Ignacio de la Flor and Katharina Diehl 7. Politics of (Non-)Knowledge: Problems of Evaluation, Validity and Legitimacy Stefan Böschen PART III: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENT APPLICATION AREAS 8. How Informed Should Decisions Be? Stephen White and Jakub Koniecki 9. Impact Assessment in the European Union: The Continuation of Politics by Other Means? Anne C.M. Meuwese 10. Science-Policy Interface and the Role of Impact Assessments in the Case of Biofuels Bernd Hirschl, Timo Kaphengst, Anna Neumann and Katharina Umpfenbach PART IV: POLICY REFORMULATION: MONITORING AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 11. Indicators as an Appraisal Technology: Framework for Analysing the Policy Influence of the UK Energy Sector Indicators Markku Lehtonen PART V: QUALITY AND EVALUATION 12. Quality Requirements for Sustainability Evaluations Anneke von Raggamby, Frieder Rubik, Doris Knoblauch and Rebecca Stecker 13. Bellagio SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles (BellagioSTAMP) – Significance and Examples from International Environmental Outlooks Jan Bakkes 14. Evaluation Quality in the Context of Sustainability Thomas Widmer 15. Developing and Mapping a Community for Evaluating Sustainable Development André Martinuzzi Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. Graduate students of development economics and development studies will also find much to interest them.Trade Review. . . this volume's great merits - namely, contributing to the policy dialogue with evidence from a collection of country studies and guiding all those interested in analyzing poverty dynamics on the method for doing so. It is not surprising that no previous book has ever achieved this contribution, because only recently, longitudinal micro-level panel data has become available for exploring poverty dynamics. All efforts expended to collect such data and provide an appropriate analysis based on it should be respected, and it is hoped that further efforts to do so will produce a sequel to this fascinating and readable volume. --Yuya Kudo, The Developing EconomiesTen years ago Bob Baulch and John Hoddinott drew our attention to the phenomenon of 'poverty dynamics' - an insight into the unpredictability of poor people's livelihoods that had profound implications for poverty thinking and policy, forcing a rethink of static conceptualisations and measurement and raising challenges for targeting anti-poverty programmes. In this new volume, Baulch and colleagues enrich this understanding with rigorous analysis of panel datasets from six countries in Africa and Asia. Most impressively, this illuminating collection by technical microeconometricians is equally accessible to non-technical readers, which effectively communicates its important messages to development policy-makers and practitioners --Stephen Devereux, University of Sussex, UKWhy Poverty Persists significantly advances our understanding of the temporal dimensions of poverty. Its judicious mix of new evidence and improved methods offers new insights into why some people remain mired in poverty and the forces that keep them there. All those interested in combating poverty - academics, donors and those working in the non-governmental organizations - will learn from the carefully constructed African and Asian case studies presented. --John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Foreword David Hulme 1. Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Asia and Africa Bob Baulch 2. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996–97 to 2006–07 Agnes R. Quisumbing 3. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004 Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter 4. The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transient Poverty in Nepal, 1995–96 to 2003–04 Saurav Dev Bhatta and Suman K. Sharma 5. Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan, 1987–88 to 2004–05 Hari Ram Lohano 6. Poverty Traps and Structural Poverty in South Africa: Reassessing the Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, 1993 to 2004 Julian May, Ingrid Woolard and Bob Baulch 7. Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002 to 2006 Bob Baulch and Vu Hoang Dat 8. Chronic Poverty: What is to be Done? Bob Baulch Index

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book considers one of the most important problems in economics: the inception of modern economic development.Trade Review'An invaluable survey of the literature on growth. Colin White argues persuasively and expertly that any attempt to solve the profound mystery of economic growth at the large scales of world history must move beyond the limited vision of neo-classical economic theory, and incorporate the narrative methods and perspectives of history as well. This is a superb overview and critique of contemporary attempts to explain economic growth, and a perceptive re-examination of the whole issue of growth in human history.' -- David Christian, Macquarie University, Australia'Colin White transcends a number of false dichotomies in this work. He shows that we need both theory and history in order to comprehend the transition to modern economic growth. He appreciates that this transition was neither inevitable as many theorists argue nor entirely contingent as historical treatments often suggest. He argues that advice to present-day less developed countries should combine a general understanding of the process of transition with detailed analysis of the history and conditions of the country in question. He appreciates that it makes sense to speak of an Industrial Revolution while also recognizing that this was a gradual process that in turn built upon even more gradual changes in earlier centuries in the British economy. Less obviously but importantly he realizes that we can best understand economic growth if we recognize the limitations of each scholarly approach in order to integrate the best of these.' -- Rick Szostak, University of Alberta, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction: Theory and History 1. The Role of Theory and History in Explaining Modern Economic Development 2. The Conventional Wisdom of the Economist 3. The Optimist’s View: Convergence 4. Introducing Real Time with a Narrative Part II: Ultimate Causes: A Fixed or Malleable Context 5. Resources as a Stimulant or Constraint: The Role of Geography 6. Geography and Beyond: The Importance of Risk Environments 7. Human Capital: Education, Health and Aptitude 8. The Institutional Setting: Government, Market and Civil Society Part III: The Driving Forces 9. Innovation as a Prime Mover 10. Government Provides the Context: Motivation and Policies Part IV: Devising Appropriate Narratives 11. Release from the Malthusian Trap 12. Continuity and Discontinuity: The Meaning of the Industrial Revolution 13. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: The Failed Experiment Part V: Conclusions 14. Causes and Complexity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThrough this detailed consideration of the impacts of development on the people who live in those places, he examines whether these changes represent the emergence of capitalism or a transition, develops a theory of relationships between economy and daily life and questions the very nature of Chinese capitalism.Trade Review‘Webber is a great communicator readily challenging dogmas and opening up new and alternative ways of seeing and reading. His writing is lively, captivating, and jargon-free. . . It is undeniably an important, persuasive, and highly readable contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Chinese economy and society. -- C. Cindy Fan, Journal of Regional Science‘Webber’s comprehensive analyses of the political, economic, social and, not least, geographical factors at stake in each specific locality that he has visited make this book thought-provoking and inspiring reading. It is warmly recommended to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of socioeconomic change in rural China.’ -- Stig Thøgersen, The China Journal‘Michael Webber’s excellent study of the diverse ways in which the market and state have impacted upon rural China is based on a decade and a half of annual research visits to far-flung areas of the Chinese countryside. Webber writes well, and he is able to convey a good sense of the stresses to which villagers were subjected in the locales he studied.’ -- Jonathan Unger, China QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: Principal Leaders in the Central Government Since the 1982 Constitution 1. Development is Not a Dinner Party 2. Rich Wang’s Village: Marketing the Dairy Economy 3. Buying Out Collectives and Farms 4. ‘We Never Forcibly Evict Anybody, Except Those Who Refuse to Move’ 5. ‘May God Bless Our Injured Land...’ 6. Water Wallies 7. ‘The Miracle of Creation’ 8. Ethnicity, Poverty, Migration 9. Development is the Irrefutable Fact References Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book explores both the origins and future of the global sustainable development movement, and provides an original overview of the driving forces of sustainable development, including market forces and past and future trends.Trade Review'This book is state-of-the-art. The authors present refreshing ideas about sustainability. It is a challenging approach to the conceptualization, measurement and ranking of sustainable development. This goes far beyond technicalities, discussing political, managerial and spiritual aspects of societal change.' --Jan Pronk, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: THE CORE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Sustainable Development: Taking Responsibility for the Whole Kees Zoeteman 2. A Short History of Sustainable Development Kees Zoeteman and Jaco Tavenier 3. The Mission Reflected in the Sustainable Development Concept: Uplifting Society Kees Zoeteman and Hans Mommaas 4. Can Sustainable Development be Measured? Kees Zoeteman PART II: LEADERSHIP AND INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT 5. Leadership and Sustainability Attitudes in Personal Life Kees Zoeteman 6. Individual and Organizational Development Phases Towards Sustainability Margarete van den Brink PART III: NATIONS, BUSINESSES AND MARKETS 7. Ranking of Nations Kees Zoeteman, Wouter Kersten and Lieke van de Voort 8. Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility Johan Graafland and Hugo Smid 9. Understanding Differences in Business Sectors Kees Zoeteman 10. Sustainability Attitudes in Local Area Development in the Netherlands Jules Hinssen PART IV: NGOs AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 11. NGOs and Sustainability Attitudes Wouter Kersten, Elena Akdanova and Kees Zoeteman 12. The Sustainability Movement Paul van Seters 13. The Case of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands Lisette Schuitemaker, Peter Merry and Anne-Marie Voorhoeve PART V: PAST AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS 14. Building Consensus for Sustainable Development Lawrence Susskind and Mattijs van Maasakkers 15. Trends, Crises and Sustainability Kees Zoeteman 16. The Conflict of Our Time Otto Scharmer Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by distinguished Chinese academics, this book provides a unique and rare insight into the development of the modern Chinese economy. The book concludes that following three decades of high economic growth, China now faces great challenges for sustainable growth, and the institutions of China’s economy have reached a critical point.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Reform and Opening-up of a Large, Developing Country 2. Political and Social Foundations of Economic Development 3. Urban and Rural Economic Development During the Process of Urbanization and Industrialization 4. Industrial Agglomeration in the Process of Globalization and Regional Economic Development 5. Transitions of Public Services and Government Responsibilities During the Marketization Process 6. Developmental Imbalances and Mechanisms for Improving the Market System 7. Appropriate Institutions and Sustainable Growth: China’s Development and its Worldwide Significance References Index

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Book SynopsisThis lucid and informative book analyzes the problem of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Masatsugu Tsuji and Akifumi Kuchiki PART I: BACKGROUND AND CIRCUMSTANCES 2. On the Sequence of Steps in Clustering Policy for Creating Spatial Advantages Akifumi Kuchiki and Toshitaka Gokan 3. Promoting Regional Integration through Industrial Cluster Policy in CLMV Cities Akifumi Kuchiki 4. Export Processing Zones and the WTO SCM Agreement Motoyoshi Suzuki 5. Thai Regional Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and their Effect on the Automotive Industry in Thailand Somrote Komolavanij, Chawalit Jeenanunta, Pornpimol Chongphaisal and Veeris Ammarapala PART II: CLUSTER FORMATION FOR UPGRADING AND INNOVATION 6. Case Study of Laos: Prospects for a Vientiane Special Economic Zone Motoyoshi Suzuki 7. Industrial Upgrading: Cluster Development in the Malaysian Electronics Industry Saha Dhevan Meyanathan 8. The Interaction between the High-tech Industrial Cluster and its Surrounding Universities: The Case of Wuhan ‘Optical Valley’ Industrial Cluster Bei Hu and Rongzhi Liu 9. Interaction between Transnational Corporations and Local Government on Industry Clusters in China: The Case of the Automobile Industry Xiyou He PART III: CLUSTERING AND INNOVATION 10. Effects of Technological Networks of Small and Medium-sized Firms on their R&D Activities in Shihwa Industrial Complex, Korea: Toward Industrial Cluster Formation and Regional Integration Yoshihiro Kameyama 11. Agglomeration and Local Innovation Networks in Japanese SMEs: Analysis of the Information Linkage Masatsugu Tsuji and Syoichi Miyahara Index

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Book SynopsisThe Financial Crisis and Developing Countries is an invaluable discussion and analysis of the regional and country specific impacts of the financial crisis in both emerging markets and developing countries.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Crisis? What Crisis? For Whom? Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Arjan de Haan and Rolph van der Hoeven PART I: THE CRISIS AND CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT 2. Re-orienting Development in Uncertain Times Jayati Ghosh 3. How Have Poor Women and Men Experienced the Global Economic Crisis: What Have We Learned? Duncan Green and Richard King 4. After the Gold Rush: Prospects for Africa, Economic Recovery and Long-term Growth Fantu Cheru 5. A Historical Ethnography of Recessions: Crises in Yogyakarta Ben White PART II: HETERODOX (POLITICAL) ECONOMIC INTERPRETATIONS 6. Chinese Savings Gluts or Northern Financialisation? The Ideological Expediency of Crisis Narratives Andrew Martin Fischer 7. Short- and Long-run Macroeconomic Effects of Keynesian Trade Policies in the Presence of Debt Servicing Syed Mansoob Murshed 8. FDI Volatility and Development Irene van Staveren 9. Financial Globalization, Current Crisis and Labour in Developing Countries Rolph van der Hoeven PART III: REGIONAL AND COUNTRY EXPERIENCES 10. Impact of the Global Crises (Financial, Economic and Food): The Case of Microfinance in Latin America Reynaldo Marconi and Harry Clemens 11. Crisis, Employment and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa Mahmood Messkoub 12. Crisis and Exclusionary Growth in Europe’s ‘East’ Max Spoor 13. The Crisis in South Asia: From Jobless Growth to Jobless Slump? Karin Astrid Siegmann 14. Diamonds are for Never: The Economic Crisis and the Diamond Polishing Industry in India Astha Kapoor 15. Defending Vulnerable Workers in South Africa after the Crisis: What Role for COSATU? Freek B. Schiphorst 16. How China Managed the Impact of the Financial Crisis: Globalization and Public Policy Responses in an Emerging Economy Arjan de Haan and Sen Gong 17. Thailand From Crisis to Crisis: Do We Ever Learn? Karel Jansen PART IV: PREPARING FOR THE NEXT CRISIS? 18. The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Globalization Rob Vos References Index

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Book SynopsisTerutomo Ozawa introduces a newly reformulated theory of âflying-geeseâ economic development, exploring Asiaâs dynamic growth and financial development. This unique book shows how the flying-geese theory can be expanded and applied to both the real- and the financial-sector structural transformation of regionally clustered economies.Trade Review'Ozawa is, in many ways, a political-economy pioneer. . . Ozawa shows his vast understanding of the topic by deconstructing each stage of economic development into small, more precise problems. . . Ozawa's vast economic, historical and philosophical knowledge shines through in this book. . . brings a much needed multi-faceted perspective to the subject of economic development. It is written as clearly as economic theory can be, and although it is clearly intended for an academic (political-economy) readership, it is a useful book for the general public as well.' -- Adelina Bulak, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies'... Ozawa's new book, The Rise of Asia, is a blast of fresh air. . . Turning from the production or real economy to the financial or money economy. . . Ozawa [also] proposes an innovative stages theory of the balance of payments, linked to the stages of the production economy. . . The book, moreover, not only analyzes big trends and big policy issues but does so in remarkably lucid and graceful prose, accessible to undergraduates and the general reader.' -- Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics, Winner of the 2008 Leontief Prize in Economics, reviewed in Asia Policy'Ozawa again breaks new ground in reformulating the flying-geese theory. . . This thought-provoking book is a must read, together with the previous one, for anyone who adopts the FG frame of reference for understanding of - and research on - the topic of economic development in an age of ever-deepening integration.' -- From the foreword by Kiyoshi KojimaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Part I: Agenda 1. Is the Flying-Geese Theory Passé – or Still Relevant? Part II: Real-Sector Growth: Industrial Upgrading 2. Akamatsu’s Flying-Geese Theory – in the Rough 3. A Dynamic Stages Model of Structural Upgrading, Industrial Transplantation, and Knowledge Diffusion 4. Comparative Advantage Recycling in Labor-Driven Growth: An Unprecedented Opportunity for the Poor to Rise? 5. Structural Upgrading, Infrastructure Development, and Insatiable Quest for Natural Resources 6. The Asian Model for Latin America? A Tale of Two Regions Part III: Money/Finance Dimension 7. Borrowed Growth: Balance of Payments, Capital Flows, and Development Finance 8. Creating the World in America’s Own Image? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisResearchers and students in economics, economic history, political science and regional studies, and others interested in the economics of transition to a market system will find this comprehensive collection an invaluable resource.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Werner Baer 2. The Regional Impacts of Juscelino Kubitschek’s Targets Program André Villela 3. Regional Imbalances in Brazil According to Social Inclusion Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque 4. Social Programs, Industrial Deconcentration and the Recent Decrease in Regional Income Inequality in Brazil Raul da Mota Silveira-Neto and Carlos Roberto Azzoni 5. Labor Policies in Brazil Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, Fabíola Cristina Ribeiro de Oliveira and Camila Kraide Kretzmann 6. The Impact of Privatization on Brazil’s Regions Edmund Amann and Werner Baer 7. Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in the Regional Development of Brazil Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Simone Uderman 8. FDI in Brazil from a Regional Perspective Marcos C. Holanda and André Matos Magalhães 9. Stabilization Policies and Regional Development in Brazil Alexandre Rands Barros 10. The Use of Native Forests versus Economic Growth in Brazil: Is it Possible to Reach a Balance? Carlos José Caetano Bacha 11. Regional Development and Agricultural Expansion in Brazil’s Legal Amazon: The Case of the Mato Grosso Frontier Charles C. Mueller 12. Embrapa: Its Origins and Changes Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Elisio Contini and Eliseu Alves 13. The Regional Impact of Federal Government Programs in Brazil: The Case of Rio de Janeiro Thomas J. Trebat and Nicholas M. Trebat Index

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Book SynopsisSince the beginning of the 1990s, the supremacy of `Old World’ countries (France and Italy) in the international wine market has been challenged by new players, such as Australia, Argentina, Chile and South Africa, which are recording stunning performances in terms both of export volume and value.Trade Review'This book takes a fresh look at the innovations that have changed the global wine sector, presenting established thinking in a new light. Building on the world's knowledge base in wine production, the book encourages novel thinking for both Old World and New World producers. The content is topical, current and well written. This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in wine innovation. --Sakkie Pretorius, The Australian Wine Research Institute'This excellent book emerges out of the project ''Innovation and Globalization in the Wine Sector: An International Comparison between Argentina, Chile, Italy and South Africa''. The authors provide a fresh perspective on innovation and technological capabilities in the wine industry, as well as an insightful account of the new growth trajectories of this industry in different contexts. . . this theoretically informed and empirically rich collection has clearly succeeded in highlighting some of the key features of innovation and technological catching-up in the wine industry in different countries. . . The book will be of considerable interest to practitioners, policymakers and scholars of innovation processes and to specialists of the wine industry more generally.' --David Doloreux, Regional Studies'[T]he editors have produced a book that contributes to our knowledge of the significance of innovation for the success of the New Wine World countries. It helps us to better understand the drivers of the most recent episode of wine grape area expansion and wine production growth. . . the book deserves a place on the shelves or data files of sociologists, geographers, economists, and policymakers concerned with the evolution of the global wine industry.' --Rolf A.E. Mueller, Journal of Wine EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Innovation and Technological Catch-up in the Wine Industry: An Introduction Elisa Giuliani, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti PART I: CATCHING UP IN THE WINE INDUSTRY 2. Catching-up Trajectories in the Wine Sector Lucia Cusmano, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti 3. The Changing Geography of Science in Wine: Evidence from Emerging Countries Lorenzo Cassi, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti 4. Contributions of the Innovation System to Australia’s Wine Industry Growth Kym Anderson PART II: DRIVERS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CATCH-UP IN THE WINE INDUSTRY: UNIVERSITIES, PUBLIC–PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS, RESEARCHERS AND FIRMS 5. University Involvement in Wine Region Development: A Comparative Case Study between Universidad de Talca (Chile) and Universidad de Cuyo (Argentina) Martin Kunc and Scott Tiffin 6. Recombining to Compete: Public–Private Institutions, Shifting Networks and the Remaking of the Argentine Wine Sector Gerald A. McDermott and Rafael A. Corredoira 7. Bridging Researchers and the Openness of Wine Innovation Systems in Chile and South Africa Elisa Giuliani and Roberta Rabellotti 8. Knowledge, Science and Interactions in South Africa’s Wine Industry Jo Lorentzen 9. What Have we Learnt from the Wine Industry? Some Concluding Remarks Elisa Giuliani, Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti Index

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Book SynopsisUntil recently, economists studying economic development have tended to consider it as a universal process, or focussed their attention on common aspects.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Franco Malerba and Richard R. Nelson 2. Explaining Divergent Stories of Catch-up in the Telecommunication Equipment Industry in Brazil, China, India and Korea Keun Lee, Sunil Mani and Qing Mu 3. The Global Computer Software Sector Jorge Niosi, Suma Athreye and Ted Tschang 4. Explaining Variations in Semiconductor Catch-up Strategies in China, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan Rajah Rasiah, Xin-Xin Kong, Yeo Lin and Jaeyong Song 5. Catching up in the Pharmaceutical Sector: Lessons from Case Studies of India and Brazil Shyama V. Ramani and Samira Guennif 6. The Agro-food Sector in Catching-up Countries: A Comparative Study of Four Cases Shulin Gu, John O. Adeoti, Ana Célia Castro, Jeffrey Orozco and Rafael Díaz 7. Conclusions Franco Malerba and Richard R. Nelson Index

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Book SynopsisThe overall nexus between security and development poses some formidable questions about the multiple forms of violence which afflict the international community: Why are some places peaceful whilst others are violent? This important book tackles some of the main security challenges facing the international development community today.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Security and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus George Mavrotas 2. Security and Development: Some Reflections Michael Spence 3. Globalization and the Challenges of Inclusion and Climate Change Graeme Wheeler 4. Prevention of Threats and Emergency Responses: Challenges to Policy Making Paul Collier 5. The Conflict–Development Nexus: A Survey of Armed Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1980–2005 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Maximillian Ashwill, Elizabeth Chiappa and Carol Messineo 6. National Security: Deterring and Surviving Civil Conflicts Marta Reynal-Querol 7. Violence, Development and the Rule of Law Martin Krygier and Whit Mason 8. Securing Against Natural Disasters: Better Preparedness and Better Development Ajay Chhibber and Rachid Laajaj 9. Infectious Diseases: Responses to the Security Threat Without Borders Mark Gersovitz Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field.Trade Review'Law and development is a difficult field. It is at once multi-disciplinary and comparative; historical and policy driven; theoretical and empirical; positive and normative. Here at long last is a book that provides a masterful overview and critical analysis that will make this field accessible to students and teachers alike.' --Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School, US'What Makes Poor Countries Poor? is an intelligent and helpful manual, which introduces the reader to the manifold literature of law and development. . . It is refreshing to read about prevailing social attitude, day-to-day interactions of the citizenry with the legal system, collective expectations with respect to public servants, or de jure and de facto differences. This book reflects deep understanding of the real issues that matter for development and should be of interest not only to students and scholars interested in the institutions -development link and to practitioners, but to all social scientists that enjoy broad and interdisciplinary views on relevant topics for development.' --Nadia Von jacobi, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities'This book is a very good starting point of condensed information for lawyers and others involved in development of poor countries. It is an umbrella view of the situation and does a good job of giving a taster and overview of the matter.' --Sally Ramage, The Criminal LawyerTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Ends and Means of Development 2. The Rule of Law and Development: In Search of the Holy Grail 3. The Property Rights/Contract Rights Development Nexus 4. Political Regimes, Ethnic Conflict and Development 5. Public Administration, Corruption and Development 6. State-owned Enterprises, Privatization and Development 7. International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Development 8. Foreign Aid and Development: The Aid-Institutions Paradox 9. Conclusion: In Search of Knowledge Index

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Book SynopsisThis quantitative and qualitative account of Ghanaian development shows how closely fought elections drive subnational local state institutions to patronize party volunteers. Extrapolating from Ghana’s example, the author shows how locally salient varieties of patronage shape political competition in a variety of contexts.Trade Review“Consistently insightful, clear yet nuanced, thought-provoking from the first page onwards, and engagingly written for a wider audience, this is one of the best books written on political parties in Africa in the last decade.” -- Nic Cheeseman, author of Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform“Barry Driscoll’s close-up, empirically meticulous study of clientelism in Ghana challenges a great deal of widely shared received wisdom on political linkages in electoral democracies. He shows that intense inter-party competition may actually magnify rather than reduce clientelistic allocation of benefits and that some variants of greater state capacity are quite compatible with extensive clientelism, if not facilitating it. The persuasiveness of Driscoll’s investigation follows from a research strategy that operates at three levels. It combines, first, thick description of local transactional practices based on personal observation in select administrative districts with, second, quantitative analysis of subnational linkage patterns across all of Ghana and, third, situating the Ghanaian experience of political linkage mechanisms in a broad regional comparative examination. Driscoll’s inquiry is thought provoking and should be required reading for any scholar venturing to contribute to the field of democratic linkage studies.” -- Herbert Kitschelt, coauthor of Patrons, Clients and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political CompetitionTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Local State in the Twenty-First Century 1 Why Some Districts Are Competitive: The Order of Local State Formation 2 Why Some Districts Fear Their Party Activists 3 Why (and How) Some Party Activists Get Patronage 4 Beyond Case Studies: Countrywide Analysis 5 Why Patronage and State Capacity Can Coexist 6 Some Comparative Perspective

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Book SynopsisThis quantitative and qualitative account of Ghanaian development shows how closely fought elections drive subnational local state institutions to patronize party volunteers. Extrapolating from Ghana’s example, the author shows how locally salient varieties of patronage shape political competition in a variety of contexts.Trade Review“Consistently insightful, clear yet nuanced, thought-provoking from the first page onwards, and engagingly written for a wider audience, this is one of the best books written on political parties in Africa in the last decade.” -- Nic Cheeseman, author of Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform“Barry Driscoll’s close-up, empirically meticulous study of clientelism in Ghana challenges a great deal of widely shared received wisdom on political linkages in electoral democracies. He shows that intense inter-party competition may actually magnify rather than reduce clientelistic allocation of benefits and that some variants of greater state capacity are quite compatible with extensive clientelism, if not facilitating it. The persuasiveness of Driscoll’s investigation follows from a research strategy that operates at three levels. It combines, first, thick description of local transactional practices based on personal observation in select administrative districts with, second, quantitative analysis of subnational linkage patterns across all of Ghana and, third, situating the Ghanaian experience of political linkage mechanisms in a broad regional comparative examination. Driscoll’s inquiry is thought provoking and should be required reading for any scholar venturing to contribute to the field of democratic linkage studies.” -- Herbert Kitschelt, coauthor of Patrons, Clients and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political CompetitionTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Local State in the Twenty-First Century 1 Why Some Districts Are Competitive: The Order of Local State Formation 2 Why Some Districts Fear Their Party Activists 3 Why (and How) Some Party Activists Get Patronage 4 Beyond Case Studies: Countrywide Analysis 5 Why Patronage and State Capacity Can Coexist 6 Some Comparative Perspective

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI cannot recommend it highly enough. -- Veronica P. Fynn Journal of Internal DisplacementTable of ContentsIntroduction: Incorporating Transitional Justice into the Response to Displacement Chapter 1: Contributing to Durable Solutions: Transitional Justice and the Integration and Reintegration of Displaced PersonsChapter 2: Addressing Concerns About Transitional Justice in Displacement Contexts: A Humanitarian PerspectiveChapter 3: Protection in the Past Tense: Restitution at the Juncture of Humanitarian Response to Displacement and Transitional JusticeChapter 4: The Potential for Redress: Reparations and Large-Scale DisplacementChapter 5: Truth-Telling and Displacement: Patterns and ProspectsChapter 6: Criminal Justice and Forced Displacement: International and National PerspectivesChapter 7: Ensuring Long-Term Protection: Justice-Sensitive Security Sector Reform and DisplacementChapter 8: The Nexus Between Displacement and Transitional Justice: A Gender-Justice Dimension

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Book SynopsisTrade Review’The full realization of the right to development is still a long quest for the international community. This unique and pioneering Encyclopedia reveals and deconstructs the power of law in achieving development in its economic, social, cultural, environmental and political dimensions. De Feyter, Türkelli and de Moerloose have concocted a masterpiece that highlights how lawyers can contribute to the welfare of the developing world as much as Amartya Sen. -- - Makane Moïse Mbengue, University of Geneva, Switzerland and SciencesPo Law School, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Future of Law and Development Research: An Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Law and Development 1 Koen de Feyter, Gamze Erdem Türkelli and Stéphanie de Moerloose 2. Academy and Law and Development: The United States and Beyond 4 David M. Trubek 3. Actors and Instruments 8 Philipp Dann and Michael Riegner 4. Approaches to Law and Development 11 Liliana Lizarazo-Rodríguez 5. Armed Conflict 16 Ajla Škrbić 6. Biodiversity 20 Christine Frison 7. Cities 24 Urmila Soni (Govindjee) 8. Civil Society 28 Ada Ordor 9. Climate 32 Justine Bendel 10. Common but Differentiated Responsibility 36 Amita Punj 11. Common Heritage of Mankind 40 Alberto Pecoraro 12. Comparative Law 44 Diego A. Dolabjian 13. Corruption 47 Martin Skladany 14. Courts 51 Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz 15. Cultural Heritage 55 Alessandra Asteriti 16. Decent Work 59 Avinash Govindjee and Thando Qotoyi 17. Democracy 64 Daniel Mathew 18. Duty to Cooperate 68 Julien Dellaux 19. Education 72 Joanna Botha 20. Enabling International Environment 76 Celine Tan 21. Energy 80 Ignacio Sabbatella 22. Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations 84 Arne Vandenbogaerde 23. Financing for Development 87 Siobhán Airey 24. Future Generations 91 Julien Dellaux 25. Gender Equality 95 Joanna Botha with Glancina Mokone 26. Global Governance 99 Ikboljon Qoraboyev 27. Good Governance 104 Morag Goodwin 28. Growth and De-growth 108 Wouter Vandenhole 29. Health 110 Avinash Govindjee and Mayowa Ajigboye 30. Human Rights 114 Wouter Vandenhole 31. Humanitarian Crisis 118 Deborah Casalin 32. Hunger 121 Amita Punj 33. Imperialism 124 Nadia Latif 34. Indigenous Peoples 128 Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda 35. Industry and Infrastructure 131 Kinnari Bhatt 36. Inequality 135 Mikaela Heikkilä and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso 37. Intellectual Property Rights 139 Titilayo Adebola 38. International Commodity Agreements 143 Michael Fakhri 39. International Financial Regulation and Sustainable Finance 147 Jeremmy Okonjo 40. International Law 151 Yusra Suedi 41. International Solidarity 154 Obiora Chinedu Okafor 42. International Trade Law 158 Rafael Lima Sakr 43. Investor 163 Nitish Monebhurrun 44. Law and Development Experts 166 Deval Desai 45. Law, Finance and Development 169 Andreia Costa Vieira 46. Law of Foreign Investment 173 Mavluda Sattorova 47. Law, Race and Development 177 Foluke Adebisi 48. Legal Pluralism 181 Helga María Lell 49. Life below Water 184 Patrick H.G. Vrancken 50. Local Authorities 187 Paul Stacey 51. Migration 191 Lila García 52. Mother Earth 195 Leonardo Villafuerte Philippsborn 53. Multilateral Development Banks 198 Philipp Dann and Thomas Dollmaier 54. Multistakeholderism 202 Gamze Erdem Türkelli 55. National Policy Space 207 Celine Tan 56. Natural Resources 211 Julia Dehm 57. Official Development Assistance 216 Siobhán Airey 58. Parliaments 220 Philipp Dann and Michael Riegner 59. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 224 Ntemesha Maseka 60. Philanthropic Institutions 228 Amaka Vanni 61. Planetary Boundaries 232 Vincent Bellinkx 62. Poverty 236 Lilla Crouse 63. Public Administration 240 Yong-Shik Lee 64. Regulating Multinational Corporations 243 Daria Davitti 65. Resistance 246 Giedre Jokubauskaite 66. Right to Development 249 Julie Gibson 67. Rights of Nature 253 María Valeria Berros 68. Rule of Law 256 Juan Bautista Etcheverry 69. Security 260 Anna-Liisa Heusala 70. Social Protection 264 Markus Kaltenborn 71. South-South and Triangular Cooperation 268 Raquel de Mattos Pimenta, Lívia Gil Guimarães and Diogo R. Coutinho 72. Sovereign Debt 271 Liliana Lizarazo-Rodríguez 73. Sovereignty 276 Koen de Feyter 74. Sustainability 279 Stéphanie de Moerloose 75. Tax and Development 283 Attiya Waris 76. Terrorism 287 Martin Scheinin 77. Traditional Authorities 291 Janine Ubink 78. Transfer of Technology 294 Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, Sheila C. Neder Cerezetti and Juliana Krueger Pela 79. Transitional Justice 298 Jeannette Francesca Rodgers 80. United Nations 301 Michael Riegner 81. Water and Sanitation 305 Devanshi Saxena Index 309

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This fascinating book by Christian Le Bas unveils a radical change in the direction of product innovation: frugal innovation. New frugal products, “more durable, simple, effective, essential" compete with more sophisticated but more expensive goods. This is critical for developing economies but is becoming crucial for a large share of the demand of developed ones. The author has opened a new Pandora's box in the economics of innovation.’ -- Cristiano Antonelli, University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy‘This is a fresh and important addition to the literature on frugal innovation. Christian Le Bas has done an excellent job in bringing key elements of the economics of frugal innovation together. This book will be a reference on any economics of innovation bookshelf.’ -- Alexander Brem, University of Stuttgart, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: frugal innovation as a Schumpeterian innovation of transformative change 1. What frugal innovation is: defining frugal innovation and delineating its forms through cases studies with Sana Khan 2. Frugal innovation as a new technological paradigm: an interpretation 3. The economics of the frugal direction of technological change: resource constraints scheme, induced direction models, and demand-side approaches 4. Frugal innovation as environmental innovation: analytical frame and diffusion factors 5. Frugal innovation and sustainability, exploring the empirical relevance of a new taxonomy: fully versus weakly sustainable frugal innovation with Sana Khan 6. What type of innovator is a frugal innovator? An econometric exercise with Mounir Amdaoud 7. Frugal innovation and the process of disruption with Souhaila Kammoun 8. Frugal innovation and economic dynamics in developing economies Conclusion to The Economics of Frugal Innovation References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘A fascinating analysis of a core conflict in global governance today – the battle over special treatment for developing countries amid the rise of major economic powers from the Global South. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the impact of contemporary power shifts on the liberal international order.’ -- Kristen Hopewell, The University of British Columbia, Canada‘The Unmaking of Special Rights offers a powerful account of how the international rules made for disadvantaged states are being rolled back as world power shifts. It describes processes of change and resilience, advances a compelling framework to explain them, and analyzes dynamics in the trade, climate, and health regimes. The book is essential reading for scholars working in these areas, and important for everyone seeking to understand global politics today.’ -- Charles Roger, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spaini>‘Leveraging a sophisticated theoretical framework and using original qualitative data, this thought-provoking book explores the puzzling variety of differential treatments established across developed and developing countries. Looking at trade, climate, and health regimes, the authors skillfully conduct both cross-case comparison and focused within-case analyses. This book will be of interest to scholars working on global norm contestation, institutional fragmentation, developing countries coalitions, informal institutions, and international law dynamics.’ -- Jean-Frédéric Morin, Laval University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1 The unmaking of special rights PART I REGIME-LEVEL TRENDS 2 The gradual unmaking of special and differential treatment in the trade regime 3 The reinterpretation of common but differentiated responsibilities in the climate regime 4 Capacity, willingness, and need in the health regime PART II CONFLICT CASE STUDIES 5 Conflicts over special and differential treatment in agriculture 6 Conflicts over transition periods for developing countries in intellectual property rights 7 Conflicts over climate mitigation commitments 8 Conflicts over the institutional landscape of climate finance 9 Conflicts over capacity to pay in the health regime 10 Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisAfrica's Information Revolution was recently announced as the2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authorsJames T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continentTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiii 1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 1 2 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 25 3 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 47 4 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 73 5 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 113 6 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 147 7 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 176 8 Conclusion 200 References 215 Index 243

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Book SynopsisA New E-Commerce Model is Coming from the Eastit is More Advanced and it is Spreading Worldwide China is now the biggest e-commerce market, hardware producer and soon Internet of Things player in the world. Written by a world-recognized expert, this eye-opening treatment allows readers a rare glimpse into how China will shape the global online world for the next decade. Featuring hundreds of interviews, with influential companies and investors such as Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi, Yihaodian, Cogobuy, Rocket Internet, Didi-Kuaidi Taxi, Snapdeal, Tokopedia, DST Global, Credit Suisse, UBS, Qiming Ventures and many more, this ground-breaking guide provides exceptional firsthand accounts of the key considerations to making lucrative investments in this powerful sector. East-Commerce enables you to: Understand how China''s e-commerce explosion began and where it is heading See where China is shaping investments and innovation allTable of ContentsForeword vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii About the Author xvii The East-Commerce Video Course xix Illustration Credit xx Chapter 1 The Great (Technological) Leap Forward 1 Chapter 2 A Perfect Blend 15 Chapter 3 A New Breed of Companies 29 Chapter 4 Transformed Lives 51 Chapter 5 A Super-Connected World 67 Chapter 6 It Is All About Social 83 Chapter 7 Moving East (and West) 99 Chapter 8 The Connected Brand 115 Chapter 9 What Happens Next? 129 Endnotes 137 Index 145

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Book SynopsisAn indispensable reference for all researchers interested in the measurement of social welfare. . . François Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor at Paris School of Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank. . . .a detailed, insightful, and pedagogical presentation of the theoretical grounds of multidimensional well-being, inequality, and poverty measurement. Any student, researcher, and practitioner interested in the multidimensional approach should begin their journey into such a fascinating theme with this wonderful book. François Maniquet, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. A Review of the Multidimensional Approaches to the Measurement of Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being: A Quantitative Approach offers a comprehensive approach to the measurement of well-being that includes characteristics such as income, health, literacy, and housing. The author presents a Table of ContentsPreface xi Endorsements xv 1 Well-Being as a Multidimensional Phenomenon 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Income as a Dimension ofWell-Being and Some Related Aggregations 4 1.3 Scales of Measurement: A Brief Exposition 10 1.4 Preliminaries for MultidimensionalWelfare Analysis 11 1.5 The Dashboard Approach andWeights on DimensionalMetrics in a Composite Index 14 1.6 MultidimensionalWelfare Function Axioms 17 1.6.1 Invariance Axioms 17 1.6.2 Distributional Axioms 19 1.7 MultidimensionalWelfare Functions 27 1.8 Concluding Remarks 37 References 38 2 An Overview of Multidimensional Economic Inequality 49 2.1 Introduction 49 2.2 A Review of One-DimensionalMeasurement 51 2.2.1 Normative One-Dimensional Inequality Indices 51 2.2.2 Subgroup-Decomposable Indices of Inequality 53 2.3 Multidimensional Inequality Indices 56 2.3.1 The Direct Approach 56 2.3.1.1 Axioms for a Multidimensional Inequality Index 56 2.3.1.2 Examples of Indices 60 2.3.2 The Inclusive Measure ofWell-being Approach 69 2.4 Concluding Remarks 77 References 78 3 A Synthesis of Multidimensional Poverty 85 3.1 Introduction 85 3.2 A Brief Review of One-Dimensional Analysis 89 3.3 Preliminaries for Multidimensional Poverty Analysis 93 3.4 Identification of the Poor and Deprivation Counting 95 3.5 Axioms for a Multidimensional Poverty Metric 99 3.5.1 Invariance Axioms 100 3.5.2 Distributional Axioms 103 3.5.3 Decomposability Axioms 108 3.5.4 Threshold Limit Sensitivity Axiom 111 3.5.5 Technical Axioms 112 3.6 Multidimensional Poverty Measurement 113 3.6.1 The Dashboard Approach 113 3.6.2 The Direct Approach 117 3.6.3 The Inclusive Measure ofWell-being Approach 123 3.7 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings 125 3.7.1 A Brief Outline of One-Dimensional Orderings 126 3.7.2 Multidimensional Orderings 129 3.8 Dimensions ofWell-Being with Ordinal Significance and Multidimensional Poverty 131 3.9 Orderings Based on Deprivations Counts 134 3.10 Multidimensional Material Deprivation 138 3.11 Concluding Remarks 142 References 143 4 Fuzzy Set Approaches to the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty 163 4.1 Introduction 163 4.2 Fuzzy Membership Function 165 4.3 Axioms for a Fuzzy Multidimensional Poverty Index 173 4.3.1 Invariance Axioms 175 4.3.1.1 Fuzzy Strong Ratio Scale Invariance 175 4.3.1.2 Fuzzy Strong Translation Scale Invariance 177 4.3.1.3 FuzzyWeak Focus 177 4.3.1.4 Fuzzy Strong Focus 178 4.3.1.5 Fuzzy Symmetry 178 4.3.1.6 Fuzzy Population Replication Invariance 179 4.3.2 Distributional Axioms 179 4.3.2.1 Fuzzy Monotonicity 179 4.3.2.2 Fuzzy Monotonicity Sensitivity 180 4.3.2.3 Fuzzy DimensionalMonotonicity 181 4.3.2.4 Fuzzy Transfer 182 4.3.2.5 Increasing Fuzzy Poverty under Correlation-Increasing Switch 184 4.3.3 Decomposability Axioms 185 4.3.3.1 Fuzzy Subgroup Decomposability 185 4.3.3.2 Fuzzy Factor Decomposability 185 4.3.4 Fuzzy Sensitivity Axiom 186 4.3.4.1 Increasing Fuzzy Poverty for Increased Membership Function 186 4.3.5 Technical Axioms 187 4.3.5.1 Fuzzy Boundedness 187 4.3.5.2 Fuzzy Continuity 187 4.4 Fuzzy Multidimensional Poverty Indices 187 4.5 Fuzzy Poverty Orderings 191 4.6 Concluding Remarks 195 References 195 5 Poverty and Time: A Multidimensional Appraisal 201 5.1 Introduction 201 5.2 Preliminaries 207 5.3 The Block Approach 208 5.3.1 IndividualMultidimensional Intertemporal Poverty Index 208 5.3.2 Aggregate Multidimensional Intertemporal Poverty Index 218 5.3.3 A Review of Some Related One-Dimensional Proposals 220 5.4 An Exploration of the Counting Approaches to Multidimensional Intertemporal Deprivations 226 5.5 The Multidimensional Duration Approach 229 5.5.1 A Review of One-Dimensional Duration-Reliant Offers 229 5.5.2 Axioms for a Chronic Multidimensional Poverty Quantifier 231 5.5.3 The Bourguignon–Chakravarty Approach to Chronic Multidimensional Poverty Measurement 240 5.6 Intertemporal Poverty Orderings 243 5.7 Concluding Remarks 245 References 246 6 Vulnerability to Poverty: A Multidimensional Evaluation 251 6.1 Introduction 251 6.2 A Review of One-DimensionalMeasurement 254 6.3 Multidimensional Representation of Vulnerability to Poverty: An Axiomatic Investigation 262 6.4 Concluding Remarks 269 References 271 7 An Exploration of Some Composite and Individualistic Indices 277 7.1 Introduction 277 7.2 Human Development Index 278 7.3 Human Poverty Index 284 7.4 Gender Inequality Index 286 7.5 Better Life Index 288 7.6 Active Citizenship Composite Index 291 7.7 Measuring Human Opportunity: A Counting Approach 293 7.8 Assessment of Progress toward Achievements in Millennium Development Goals 295 7.9 Air Quality Index 301 7.10 Concluding Remarks 303 References 304 Index 311

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive resource for higher education professionals interested in sustainability pedagogy In The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful reference for higher education professionals seeking to embed sustainability in learning and teaching. The book offers a way for higher education institutions to implement sustainability goals in their curricula and provides comprehensive guidance to educators, researchers and practitioners. The authors discuss recent developments in technological innovations, best practices, lessons learned, current challenges, and reflections in the area of sustainability teaching in higher education. They also examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainability education. With contributors from a variety of disciplines, including engineering, medicine, urban design, business, environmental science, and social science, the bTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix List of Contributors xi 1 Sustainable Development: Embedding Sustainability in Higher Education 1Kelum A. A. Gamage and Erandika K. de Silva Part I Transforming the Curriculum – Pedagogy Focused Initiatives 11 2 Activist Learning for Sustainability: A Pedagogy for Change 13Zoe Robinson, Rebecca Laycock Pedersen, and Sarah Briggs 3 Outcome- Based Education Toward Achieving Sustainable Goals in Higher Education 41G. R. Sinha, Nanda Gunawardhana, and Chih- Peng Fan 4 Transforming Ourselves to Transform Societies: Cultivating Virtue in Higher Education for Sustainability 59Amparo Merino and Estela Díaz 5 Factors that Hinder the Implementation of Sustainability Initiatives in Higher Education Institutions 79David Slim Zepeda Quintana, Javier Esquer, and Nora Munguía 6 Developing Stakeholder Agency in Higher Education Sustainability Initiatives: Insights from a Change Laboratory Research Intervention 99John Scahill and Brett Bligh Copyrighted Material 7 Technology- Enhanced Education: Improving Students’ Learning Experience in the Higher Education Context 133Mengting Yu 8 Sustainability Assessment Tools in Higher Education Institutions: Comprehensive Analysis of the Indicators and Outlook 153M. Mapar, P. Bacelar-Nicolau, and S. Caeiro 9 COVID- 19 Disruptions to SDG 4 in Higher Education Institutions 187Luis Velazquez Part II Transforming the Curriculum – Discipline- Specific Initiatives 205 10 Integrating Harmonious Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum: Addressing the Sustainability Grand Challenge 207David A. Kirby, Iman El- Kaffass, and Felicity Healey- Benson 11 Sustaining Place Transformations in Urban Design Education: Learning and Teaching Urban Density, Mix, Access, Public/Private Interface, and Type 221Hesam Kamalipour and Nastaran Peimani 12 Sustainability of Innovations in Health Professions Education 237Gominda Ponnamperuma, Asela Olupeliyawa, Madawa Chandratilake, and Kosala Marambe 13 Sustainability in Energy Systems Analysis and Design 257J. McKellar, H. Gaber, and D. Hoornweg Part III Global Trends – Country Specific Initiatives 277 14 Sustainability Teaching in Higher Education and Universities in Spain 279Sergio Nogales Delgado, Silvia Román Suero, and Beatriz Ledesma Cano 15 Sustainability in Higher Education in Egypt: Perception, Challenges, and Way Forward 297Marwa Biltagy 16 Youth Communicators as an Engine for Sustainable Development: A Case Study for Achieving SDGs in Remote Higher Education Institutions 317Saira Ahmed, Amir Qayyum, Azza Malik, and Hassan Ali 17 Streamlining Higher Education in the Maldives: Issues and Challenges 333Abdul Hannan Waheed 18 Embedding Sustainability into the Education Process in the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, SUA in Nitra, Slovakia 353Tatiana Kaletová, Ivana Mezeyová, Ján Mezey, Mária Bihuňová, Roberta Štěpánková, Andrej Tárník, Ján Horák, and Kristína Candráková Part IV Equity and Inclusion within Sustainability Education 377 19 Inclusive Education and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities in HigherEducation for Students with Disabilities 379Samanmala Dorabawila, Sakunthala Yatigammana, and Anoma Abhayaratne 20 Embedding Sustainability in Learning and Teaching: Communication Barriers to Learners with Special Needs 397Leena Seneheweera and Varunadatta Edirisinghe 21 Sustainable Higher Education for Disabled Students: Comprehensive and Quality Support for All Process Participants – University of Zagreb Support Model 421Lelia Kiš- Glavaš 22 Barriers, New Developments, and Emerging Trends in Sustainability in HE 453Kelum A. A. Gamage and Erandika K. de Silva Index 461

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Book SynopsisA quantitative analyst's introduction to the theory and practice of ESG finance In Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance, accomplished risk and ESG experts Dr. Cyril Shmatov and Cino Robin Castelli deliver an incisive and essential introduction to the quantitative basis of ESG finance from a quantitative analyst's perspective. The book combines the theoretical and mathematical bases underlying risk factor investing and risk management with accessible discussions of ESG applications. The authors explore the increasing availability of non-traditional data sources for quantitative analysts and describe the quantitative/statistical techniques they'll need to make practical use of these data. The book also offers: A particular emphasis on climate change and climate risks, both due to its increasing general importance and accelerating regulatory change in the spacePractical code examples in a Python Jupyter notebook that use publicly available data to demonstrate the techniques discussed in the bookExpansive discussions of risk factor investing, portfolio construction, ESG scoring, new ESG-driven financial products, and new financial risk management applications, particularly those making use of the proliferation of alternative data, both text and imagesA must-read guide for quantitative analysts, investment managers, financial risk managers, investment bankers, and other finance professionals with an interest in ESG-driven investing, Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance will also earn a place on the bookshelves of graduate students of business and finance.Table of ContentsForeword vii Introduction and Book Overview 1 1. Overview 1 2. Why ESG Finance? 2 3. Why Quantitative Methods? 2 4. Target Audience and Timing of This Book 2 5. Book Outline 3 1 Introduction to ESG Finance 5 1.1 Preface: ESG Is Not a Niche Strategy Anymore 5 1.2 Introduction and Definitions 7 1.3 ESG Investment Performance 21 1.4 Sustainability and Sustainable Finance 25 2 Factor Investing and Smart Beta 39 2.1 Index Construction Basics 39 2.2 Smart Beta Indexes 40 2.3 Risk Factor Investing 48 2.4 Fama- MacBeth Regressions 50 2.5 Expanding the Risk Factor Universe 53 3 ESG Ratings 55 3.1 Introduction 55 3.2 Overview of ESG Rating Methodologies 57 3.3 Regression Trees as an Alternative Scoring Technique 61 3.4 Random Forest 69 4 Alternative Data 75 4.1 What Are Alternative Data and Their ESG Applications? 75 4.2 How to Validate an ESG Data Provider 81 4.3 Processing Satellite Data 83 5 Alternative Text Data 105 5.1 Alternative Text Data on ESG 105 5.2 Corporate ESG Reports 108 5.3 Topic Modeling 114 5.4 Latent Dirichlet Allocation 118 5.5 Outlier Topics 126 6 Introduction to Agent- Based Modeling for ESG Finance 129 6.1 Preface 129 6.2 Use of Agent- Based Models in Other Fields and Their Applicability to ESG Finance 131 6.3 Use of ABMs in the ESG Field 132 6.4 General Overview of ABMs 133 6.5 General Operating Principles of ABMs 136 6.6 Example of the PartE Framework Applied to an ESG Scenario 136 6.7 Why We Should Look Closely at ABMs 138 6.8 Challenges in the Use of ABMs 139 6.9 Example: Buildup of a Population Model ABM 140 6.10 In- Depth Review: ABMs in Academic and Regulatory Publications 154 7 Climate Risk: Macro Perspective 165 7.1 Climate Change: Background Information and Definitions 165 7.2 Regulatory Response to Climate Change 185 7.3 Climate Change Modeling 191 7.4 Carbon Risk and Carbon Pricing 199 7.5 Climate Risk in Investment Practice 202 8 Stress Testing for Banks 207 8.1 Stress Testing as a Risk Management Tool 207 8.2 Macroeconomic Stress Scenarios for Climate Risk 213 8.3 Climate Loss Modeling 220 8.4 Climate Stress Testing Exercise 223 8.5 Concluding Notes 224 Index 227

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a state-of-the-art debate on the controversial topic of development aid. The contributors are all experts in the field of international development. Presents some challenging conclusions about the role that aid plays in catalysing, or stifling, development. Represents a wide range of different analytical perspectives. Table of ContentsPreface from the Editors of Development and Change. 1. Aid as a Catalyst Jan P. Pronk. 2. Unpacking Aid James K. Boyce. 3. Aid as a Flight Forward Louis Emmerij. 4. Aid is an Unreliable Joystick Gus Edgren. 5. Development Goals, Governance and Capacity Building: Aid as a Catalyst John Degnbol-Martinussen. 6. Age of Reverse Aid: Neoliberalism as Catalyst of Regression James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. 7. Aid, Conditionality and Development Ajit Singh. 8. The Effectiveness of Policy Conditionality: Eight Country Experiences A. Geske Dijkstra. 9. Aid and the Geopolitics of the Post-Colonial: Critical Reflections on New Labour’s Overseas Development Strategy David Slater and Morag Bell. 10. Good Governance and Aid: Selectivity Criteria in Development Assistance Wil Hout. 11. International Development Targets and Official Development Assistance Santosh Mehrotra. 12. Aid Effectiveness and Policy Ownership Rehman Sobhan. 13. It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor Joseph Hanlonn Pronk. 14. Aid as a Catalyst: A Rejoinder Jan P. Pronk.

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Book SynopsisIn this book a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world studies the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growth. An exploration of the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growth. Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world. Argues that China's development poses the greatest ever challenge for the modern world in terms of speed, size and resource scarcity. Discusses issues such as cleaner production, green car technology, resettlement resulting from dam building, and biotechnology. Moves beyond the dichotomy between alarmist, radical views and moderate notions of incremental change. Table of ContentsPart 1. From Developmental to Environmental Policies. 1. Trajectories for Greening in China: Theory and Practice: Peter Ho (Groningen University, NL). 2. Environment and Modernity in Transitional China: Frontiers of Ecological Modernization: Arthur P. J. Mol (Wageningen University, NL). 3. Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns: Benjamin van Rooij (Leiden University, NL). Part 2. The ‘Technological Fix’: Greening Industry and Business. 4. Effects of Economic and Environmental Reform on the Diffusion of Cleaner Coal Technology in China: Stephanie B. Ohshita (University of San Francisco, USA) and Leonard Ortolano (Stanford University, USA). 5. Implementing Cleaner Production Programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province: Hongyan He Oliver (Harvard University, USA) and Leonard Ortolano (Stanford University, USA). 6. Whither the Car? China’s Automobile Industry and Cleaner Vehicle Technologies: Jimin Zhao (University of Michigan, USA). 7. Environmental Reform, Technology Policy, and Transboundary Pollution in Hong Kong: Richard Welford, Peter Hills and Jacqueline Lam (all at University of Hong Kong). Part 3. Environmental Frictions? Dams, Agriculture and Biotechnology. 8. Resettlement Programmes and Environmental Capacity in the Three Gorges Dam Project: Gørild Heggelund (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway). 9. A Market Road to Sustainable Agriculture? Ecological Agriculture, Green Food and Organic Agriculture in China: Richard Sanders (University of Northampton, UK). 10. Biotech and Food Safety in China: Consumers’ Acceptance or Resistance?: Peter Ho (Groningen University, NL), Eduard B. Vermeer (Leiden University, NL) and Jennifer H. Zhao (Wageningen University, NL). 11. China’s Limits to Growth? The Difference between Absolute, Relative and Precautionary Limits: Peter Ho (Groningen University, NL) and Eduard Vermeer (Leiden University, NL).

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Book SynopsisThis book will serve as a valuable guide for those unfamiliar with trade policy and provides a challenging critique of trade policy for those already knowledgeable in the field.Trade ReviewKrist, a former U.S. trade negotiator, provides a useful primer on current world trade rules, structures, and negotiations, from an American perspective. -- Richard N. Cooper Foreign Affairs The writing, level of discourse, and material are very accessible for an educated audience. ChoiceTable of ContentsTablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. U.S. Trade Policy in Crisis2. America's Trade Agreements3. Trade Agreements and Economic Theory4. Trade Agreements and U.S. Commercial Interests5. Foreign Policy: The Other Driver6. Economic Development: A Missed Opportunity7. Uneasy Neighbors: Trade and the Environment8. The Labor Dilemma9. The Way ForwardAppendix: Backgrounds of U.S. Trade RepresentativesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisReveals both routine and behind-the-scenes practices that have characterized International Monetary Fund-Latin American relations in general and IMF-Argentina relations in particular, from 1944 to the presentTrade Review"Kedar's book derives from her success in clarifying the objectives of the IMF, while describing the conditions under which they were adopted or rejected... It is well written, exhaustive, and contains many sound judgments. Kedar has interdisciplinary abilities as a historian and an economist." - Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2013 "Kedar's study of Argentine interactions with the IMF is a welcome and impressive addition... With its clear and straightforward writing, the book is a challenging prompt for comparable studies on Brazil and Mexico, which are long overdue. Its academic significance is enhanced by the fact that it is in line with current debates about the beliefs, actual behavior, and influence of Washington politics on the procedures and policies of multilateral financial institutions, which important scholars...have pushed forward in the last decade." - Hispanic American Historical Review "Kedar makes meticulous use of IMF documents dating back to the 1940s, and triangulates with Argentine government documents and materials from the U.S. and British National Archives...[T]wo things about this book set it apart from the familiar chronicle. The first is its firm grounding in an impressive array of original historical documents... Second, Kedar is part of a new movement of scholars seeking to update traditional theoretical understandings of what international financial institutions do and why they do it... Kedar draws on newly-available information to present a different view of the IMF as a bureaucracy with its own bureaucratic interests, which do not always coincide with the interests of the U.S. government." - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Multilateralism from the Margins: Latin America and the Founding of the IMF, 1942-1945 2 It Takes Three to Tango: Argentina, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and the United States, 1946-1956 3 Dependency in the Making: The First Loan Agreement and the Consolidation of the Formal Relationship with the IMF, 1957-1961 4 Fluctuations in the Routine of Dependency: Argentine-IMF Relations in a Decade of Political Instability, 1962-1972 5 All Regimes Are Legitimate: The IMF's Relations with Democracies and Dictatorships, 1973-1982 6 Routine of Dependency or Routine of Detachment? Looking for a New Model of Relations with the IMF Conclusions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFor decades, Singapore's gay activists have sought equality and justice in a state where law is used to stifle basic civil and political liberties. This book takes an expansive view of the gay movement to examine its emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFor decades, Singapore's gay activists have sought equality and justice in a state where law is used to stifle basic civil and political liberties. In her groundbreaking book, Mobilizing Gay Singapore, Lynette Chua asks, what does a social movement look like in an authoritarian state? She takes an expansive view of the gay movement to examine its emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes. Chua tells this important story using in-depth interviews with gay activists, observations of the movement's activities-including Pink Dot events, where thousands of Singaporeans gather in annual celebrations of gay pride-movement documents, government statements, and media reports. She shows how activists deploy pragmatic resistance to gain visibility and support, tackle political norms that suppress dissent, and deal with police harassment, while avoiding direct confrontations with the law. Mobilizing Gay Singapore also addresses Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIndia's global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. In her significant study, BITS of Belonging, Simanti Dasgupta shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. She investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging.Dasgupta's ethnographic study shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the global economy. Meanwhile, in the recasting of water from a public good to a commodity, the middle class insists on a governance and citizenship model based upon market participation. Dasgupta provides a critical analysis of the grassroots activism involved in a contested water project where different Trade Review“An engaging and important book that re-frames the widely studied field of IT in India in novel and interesting ways. Simanti Dasgupta offers new insights in her juxtaposition of IT and water distribution, and shows how neoliberal politics in India are deeply embedded in gender and caste hierarchies. Illuminative, BITS of Belonging deserves to be widely read.”—Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity“BITS of Belonging is a very timely and important book, with significant theoretical insights and compelling data. Its critique of the rhetoric of IT leaders and professionals in India is rigorous. Dasgupta provides an exploration of lived experience of the IT boom for those on the ground in the city of Bangalore. Her analysis moves fluidly back and forth from slums and governmental water boards, to affluent IT firms and corporate parks. With a geographer’s eye, she shows us firsthand the disconnect between these worlds—which are all affected by the IT boom—and it is extremely powerful.”—Winifred Poster, Washington University, St. Louis

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Book SynopsisIndia's global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. In her significant study, BITS of Belonging, Simanti Dasgupta shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. She investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging.Dasgupta's ethnographic study shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the global economy. Meanwhile, in the recasting of water from a public good to a commodity, the middle class insists on a governance and citizenship model based upon market participation. Dasgupta provides a critical analysis of the grassroots activism involved in a contested water project where different Trade Review“An engaging and important book that re-frames the widely studied field of IT in India in novel and interesting ways. Simanti Dasgupta offers new insights in her juxtaposition of IT and water distribution, and shows how neoliberal politics in India are deeply embedded in gender and caste hierarchies. Illuminative, BITS of Belonging deserves to be widely read.”—Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity“BITS of Belonging is a very timely and important book, with significant theoretical insights and compelling data. Its critique of the rhetoric of IT leaders and professionals in India is rigorous. Dasgupta provides an exploration of lived experience of the IT boom for those on the ground in the city of Bangalore. Her analysis moves fluidly back and forth from slums and governmental water boards, to affluent IT firms and corporate parks. With a geographer’s eye, she shows us firsthand the disconnect between these worlds—which are all affected by the IT boom—and it is extremely powerful.”—Winifred Poster, Washington University, St. Louis

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Book SynopsisSustainable Banking introduces business leaders and students to the many ways in which financial institutions can manage their environmental and social impact and meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainable Banking Chapter 2: History of Sustainable Banking Chapter 3: The Business Case for Sustainability Chapter 4: The Direct and Indirect Impacts of Banking on Sustainable Development Chapter 5: Internal Processes Chapter 6: Sustainable Lending and Project Finance Chapter 7: Responsible Investment Chapter 8: Social Finance and Impact Investing Chapter 9: The Sustainability Case for Banking

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Book SynopsisWith its emphasis on rural development as opposed to urban development, Tanzania has pursued an individual path in socialist development. This work is the first empirical analysis of public investment in matters of agriculture, education, rural health, manufacturing, and commerce, comparing the actual program of investment to the strategy outlined in the Arusha Declaration of 1967.In Socialist Development and Public Investment in Tanzania 1964-1976, Dr Clark finds that Tanzania has been more successful in reorienting its program of social investment than its program of economic development. This failure stems from real differences within Tanzania, and among socialists generally, about appropriate investment strategies for a country at Tanzania's stage of development. In fact, no clear specification of an economic strategy exists and, as a result, policy has been heavily determined by the interests of the dominant political groups. It also reflects the fact that,

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing the alternative concept of buen vivir: the state of living well.Trade Review"This book is highly accessible, informative, and potentially inspiring ... The book approaches familiar debates on development – including population growth, food scarcity and environmental degradation – from a perspective that is both original and thought provoking." Nitsan Chorev, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown University“By radically challenging what they call the colonizing virulence of underdevelopment, the authors of The future of development provide a clarion call to arms, a radical manifesto, for unthinking the development enterprise.” Adam David Morton, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), University of Nottingham"Elucidates the contradictions in development approaches very effectively." Journal of Social Policy“Esteva, Babones and Babcicky provide a clarion call to think and act in the world without the frames of `development’ and `underdevelopment’. By problematising conceptual and statistical lenses that convert the world to a singular development enterprise, they re-open our minds and vision to social actions and values that defy a reductionist development paradigm. This is a timely and inspiring intervention.” Philip McMichael, Cornell University, Editor, Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (2010)“This concise book pursues critical alternatives to mainstream claims about development. The authors expose the façade of economic development, and reveal that cultural development is an exciting and important path for new research. The authors, in their public intellectual lives and here in their manifesto, show us how diversity can lead to unity, especially as they reveal the deeper problems with consumption. There are only a handful of books that can reach a diverse group of readers with such an important and exciting message. Yes, a truly remarkable book.” Pat Lauderdale, Arizona State University."This short and highly readable book is strongly recommended. It covers a broad range of material on development in a concise yet comprehensive way, and relates this to the need for concrete alternatives in today's messy world. It should be read by activists, students and scholars in the field." Ray Kiely, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London.Table of ContentsThe Birth of Development and Underdevelopment; Development Statistics and What They Tell Us; Buen Vivir: An Alternative to the Cult of Growth; There is Enough for Everyone; Reorganizing Society from the Bottom Up; The Reclamation of the Commons; Epilogue: A Role for Development Scholars and Practitioners.

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing the alternative concept of buen vivir: the state of living well.Trade Review"This book is highly accessible, informative, and potentially inspiring ... The book approaches familiar debates on development – including population growth, food scarcity and environmental degradation – from a perspective that is both original and thought provoking." Nitsan Chorev, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown University“By radically challenging what they call the colonizing virulence of underdevelopment, the authors of The future of development provide a clarion call to arms, a radical manifesto, for unthinking the development enterprise.” Adam David Morton, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), University of Nottingham"Elucidates the contradictions in development approaches very effectively." Journal of Social Policy“Esteva, Babones and Babcicky provide a clarion call to think and act in the world without the frames of `development’ and `underdevelopment’. By problematising conceptual and statistical lenses that convert the world to a singular development enterprise, they re-open our minds and vision to social actions and values that defy a reductionist development paradigm. This is a timely and inspiring intervention.” Philip McMichael, Cornell University, Editor, Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (2010)“This concise book pursues critical alternatives to mainstream claims about development. The authors expose the façade of economic development, and reveal that cultural development is an exciting and important path for new research. The authors, in their public intellectual lives and here in their manifesto, show us how diversity can lead to unity, especially as they reveal the deeper problems with consumption. There are only a handful of books that can reach a diverse group of readers with such an important and exciting message. Yes, a truly remarkable book.” Pat Lauderdale, Arizona State University."This short and highly readable book is strongly recommended. It covers a broad range of material on development in a concise yet comprehensive way, and relates this to the need for concrete alternatives in today's messy world. It should be read by activists, students and scholars in the field." Ray Kiely, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London.Table of ContentsThe Birth of Development and Underdevelopment; Development Statistics and What They Tell Us; Buen Vivir: An Alternative to the Cult of Growth; There is Enough for Everyone; Reorganizing Society from the Bottom Up; The Reclamation of the Commons; Epilogue: A Role for Development Scholars and Practitioners.

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Book SynopsisIn-depth ethnographic analysis provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about who and how to address the long term care needs of older people in Sub-Saharan Africa.Trade Review"This is a valuable, timely and thought-provoking collection on spaces and practices of care in Africa. The challenges of political economic change and the variations in actual situations are beautifully documented." Susan Reynolds Whyte, University of Copenhagen"This book provides an opportunity for one of the most misrepresented entities to be heard - Africa's older population, a vulnerable group with unique needs." Sanet du Toit, University of Sydney, Australia"...a thoughtful and insightful contribution, adding to or supporting our discussions on Western care-giving... an invaluable book on Africa's older population, a thought-provoking discussion on the practices of care – familial, informal and formal – in Africa and an interesting discussion on the spaces of care" Ageing and Society, Volume 39, Issue 4Table of ContentsIntroduction: spaces and practices of care for older persons in Sub-Saharan Africa ~ Jaco Hoffman and Katrien Pype; Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy ~ Sjaak van der Geest; Caring for people “without” value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa’s retirement homes ~ Katrien Pype; Older persons providing care for older persons in Tanzania: Against conventions – but accepted ~ Peter van Eeuwijk; Place matters. The home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania ~ Brigit Obrist; Care and identity in rural Malawi ~ Emily Freeman; Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania ~ Josien de Klerk; Negotiating care for older persons in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics ~ Jaco Hoffman; Afterword: Discourses of care for older persons in Sub-Saharan Africa – towards Conceptual Development ~ Andries Baart.

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