Economy & Finance

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

Informed by theory and full of practical advice, this key title offers a clear route to education for sustainable development (ESD) whilst questioning how we reconcile participatory, inclusive processes and the urgency of global crises.

Informed by theory and full of practical advice, this key title offers a clear route to education for sustainable development (ESD) whilst questioning how we reconcile participatory, inclusive processes and the urgency of global crises.

This book explores the manifold ways that the current confrontations between China and the US, and political tensions within the Special Administrative Region has brought Hong Kong to the forefront of emerging political frictions between Beijing and the territory and growing international rivalry between two powerful nations of the world.

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears.

This book is the first study to provide a comprehensive picture of the reality and structure of dollarization in Cambodia, which has been achieving rapid economic and financial development since the 2000s. It uses data collected through nationwide surveys conducted by the National Bank of Cambodia and JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three resource-based 'company town' projects built during World War II. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, history, international relations and Middle Eastern studies.

Through the study of when, how and what was taught at the beginnings of the Republican Era, and why and how professional economists came to lead public debate and economic policy making in the 20th century this book explores the foundations of this permanent interaction between theory and practice.

This monograph, the first dedicated to the topic, addresses this problem, and provides a model for identifying and understanding the revolution through the economic, political, and constitutional contexts of the period.

This book analyses the relationship between the private sector, UK official development aid (ODA) and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book will interest researchers from business management, development studies and political science, as well as to practitioners with an interest in the role of the private sector in ODA.

First published in 1985, The European Crisis of the 1590s (now with a new preface by Peter Clark) investigates in depth for the first time the origin and scale of the critical problems of the 1590s and their impact on European society.

This book explores how the financial sector in the UK operates fraud databases to help combat fraud, and to explain the phenomenon of 'debanking'. It offers a practical slant to the theory behind the secretive counter-fraud and money-laundering investigation techniques, technology, and practices employed by financial organisations.

Building on evidence from international experience, this book provides grounded solutions to challenges affecting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly in Africa, and offers guidance on how to build resilience to counteract future shocks.