Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America -- Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal -- Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda -- Chapter...

1. Special Economic Zones Unpacked -- 2. Regulatory and Institutional Framework of Special Economic Zones -- 3. Chinese Experiences on Special Economic Zones -- 4. Overview of Special Economic Zones in Africa. 5. Assessing the Outcomes in Special Economic Zones in Africa -- 6. A Review of the...

Section 1. Africa’s Agricultural Renaissance -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The imperative of investing in agriculture to catalyze national development -- Chapter 3. The Current State of African Agriculture -- Chapter 4. Agriculture-poverty-inequality nexus in Africa: Theory and...

Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries: Applying Financial Technology as a Panacea -- Revisiting the East Asian financial crises: Lessons from ethics and development pathways -- Financial Development and Natural Resources Rents-Human Capital Nexus: A New Approach -- Financial Inclusion...

Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction: Context Matters in Human Resource Management (Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Chima Mordi, and Gbolahan Gbadamosi) -- Part 2. The Africa World -- 2. Human Resource Management in Nigeria: A Review and Conceptual Model (Gbolahan Gbadamosi and Toyin Ajibade Adisa) --...

This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s. Since then, Japanese historians of the...

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economics Policies, Paradigm Shifts and their Implications -- 3. Economic Development and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 4. Regional Integration, Trade and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 5. The Development of Infrastructure and Economic Growth -- 6. Projects of the Belt...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Changing International Financial System -- 3. International Economic Growth -- 4. The Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on China's Domestic Economy -- 5. Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Domestic Economies of Participating Countries -- 6. Effects of...