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. 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...

The book assesses the development experience by reflecting on a number of aspects, su­­ch as growth in relation to employment, regional imbalances and rural-urban distribution. Further, it examines educational attainment and human capital formation issues in the context of the skill shortages...

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty....

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

This book examines the patterns, characteristics, causes and coping mechanisms of the poor in Afghanistan applying econometric and statistical techniques. The authors address and identify the extent of poverty in Afghanistan over the years, the spatial patterns and regional imbalances of poverty...

Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation,...

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...