Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Measurement and Analysis of Poverty in Rwanda -- Chapter 3: Measurement and Analysis of Multidimensional Well-being in Russia -- Chapter 4: Vulnerability to Poverty in Ethiopia -- Chapter 5: Persistence of Social Exclusion in Tanzania -- Chapter 6: On...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...

1.“Made in China” No Longer Means Cheap -- 2.Pragmatic China -- 3.Multifaceted China -- 4.The Unwritten Contract -- 5.Why Chinese Students Go Abroad -- 6.One Billion Customers -- 7.The Chinese Online Tsunami -- 8.Made in China 2.0 and Beyond -- 9.Better Unhappy Rich than Poor -- 10.Qian´an:...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

Chapter 1 Overview -- Chapter 2 Occupational Diversification and Rural Transformation in India -- Chapter 3 Changes in the Employment Scenario in Gujarat -- Chapter 4 Structural Changes and Implications for Urbanization -- Chapter 5 Changing Socio-Economic Profile of Urbanized Villages (Census...

Chapter 1. India Gets through the Waves of the Pandemic: Public Policies and Self-Care Interventions on Health at the Crossroads -- Chapter 2. Sustainable Green Resilience and Globalization or De-Globalization in a Post-COVID World -- Chapter 3. Income Insecurity, GDP and the Future of Human...

‘Recently, economists studying wellbeing have widened their lenses beyond income to include wealth. Here, economists Rossi and Sierminska tap new high-quality datasets to assess how wealth and homeownership vary across countries, over time, and among household types. Economists and...