This book examines the key development challenges facing the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean and the Pacific, focusing on livelihoods and state security and stability in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....Loe edasi...
This book offers a comparative analysis of how Special Economic Zones (SEZs) shaped the early trajectories of market transition and development in China, Russia, and Vietnam. It investigates how variations in institutional capacity, governance struc...Loe edasi...
This book brings together recent empirical insights into the effectiveness of green fiscal interventions in promoting low-carbon technological adoption, and offers a comprehensive review of modern econometric methodologies employed in this growing f...Loe edasi...
The International Conference on Evolving Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Theory, Practice, and Transformation (ICEPHSS25) aims to provide a dynamic platform for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and industry....Loe edasi...
Aid effectiveness remains a global concern, especially given most developing countries reliance on foreign aid for their development efforts. The aid effectiveness agenda, shaped by a series of international conferences, declarations, and high-level...Loe edasi...
The book challenges the narrative that decentralisation leads to enhanced democratic practices and higher levels of economic and social development. Its broad-ranging analysis and compelling arguments will be of interest to students, researchers,...Loe edasi...
The Decentralization Delusion challenges the narrative that decentralisation leads to enhanced democratic practices and higher levels of economic and social development.Instead, the book argues that decentralisation theory tends to r...Loe edasi...
Addressing the big questions to advance the debate on good governance for sustainable development, this book asks: What is governance for sustainable development? What makes governance good? And what are the factors that inhibit good governance?...Loe edasi...
Addressing the big questions to advance the debate on good governance for sustainable development, this book asks: What is governance for sustainable development? What makes governance good? And what are the factors that inhibit good governance?...Loe edasi...
This title, first published in 1952, addresses an urgent rural problem, whether our ancient market centres and administrative boundaries were still the effective centres and boundaries of everyday rural life, and, if not, what were. It sheds new lig...Loe edasi...
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in 1970 Con...Loe edasi...
This book explores the ambitious policies and strategies implemented by Yunnans provincial government to establish transnational linkages with neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia. Traditionally viewed as a landlocked and economically b...Loe edasi...
In the face of deglobalisation, decreased competitiveness and the lack of innovation in European Union (EU) countries, national development institutions, due to their unique mandates and operational capabilities, have emerged as an effective tool...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to theorise humanitarian power within the crimes of the powerful tradition, offering a compelling account of the structural forces embedded in humanitarian institutions, and the practices and forms of legitimation thr...Loe edasi...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal yet underexplored role in Regional Green Transitions (RGTs) and sustainable development. This volume addresses this knowledge gap by examining how universities in the Nordic region engage with RG...Loe edasi...
This book unveils how donor dependence and geopolitics influence the motives and activities of South Asian NGOs while operating in diverse development discourse, developing a superiority-complex challenge in upholding their core values. In doing so,...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the theme of peace- and state-building through a comparative study of the intervention of the European Union (EU) in Somalia and Mali between 2006 and 2022, as well as an analysis of the reorientation of the EUs external action p...Loe edasi...
This open access book offers innovations in how sustainability is studied, taught, and practiced across academic and professional contexts. The book captures the richness of current principles and practice in sustainability from diverse geographical...Loe edasi...
This book presents an important topic for researchers in accounting and management. It provides an original perspective on the introduction of extra-financial indicators and the difficulties encountered in their implementation, examining how extra...Loe edasi...
This book is the first history of foreign MNEs in twentieth-century Australia, filling a major gap in the economic and business history literature of Australia and of the history of international business globally....Loe edasi...
