1. A Poor Young Nation -- 2. From Independence to Turmoil -- 3. Political, Economic and Social Developments 2007-2018 -- 4. Population Growth and Job Creation: The Search for a Modern Sector -- 5. The Agricultural Sector -- 6. Oil and the Resource Curse -- 7. Conclusions and a Look to the Future.

Chapter 1. The Land They Found -- Chapter 2. Adapting to a New World -- Chapter 3. Colonial Latin America -- Chapter 4. The First Century of Independence -- Chapter 5. Industrialization -- Chapter 6. Alternatives -- Chapter 7. The Commodity Boom of the 1970s -- Chapter 8. The Lost Decade of the...

Chapter 1. Public Pensions Systems. Bibliometric Study of Academic Publications in Scientific Journals -- Chapter 2. Demographic and Social Challenges in the Design of Public Pension Schemes -- Chapter 3. The Public Pension Systems and the Economic Crisis -- Chapter 4. Pensions, Economic Growth...

1. An Analysis of the Trade Relationship of Sri Lanka with Singapore based on Trade Liberalization -- 2. Pattern of Carbon Dioxide Emission, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in South-Asian Countries – An empirical Analysis -- 3. Natural Disasters and Income Inequality in South Asia: An...

1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado -- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia -- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin -- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth -- 3. Foreign trade and...

1 Introduction -- 2 Renewable Energy Transition and Globalisation in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A Five-Decade Picture -- 3 Does Financial Openness Expand the Renewable Energy Investment in Latin American Countries? -- 4 The Interactions Between Renewable Energy Consumption,...

Foreword -- Chapter 1. The impact of SARS-CoV-2 on economic activity of Mexico in 2020 -- Chapter 2. Survival Likelihood of Micro and Small Businesses Facing a Catastrophe -- Chapter 3. How Covid-19 has accelerated the garment and financial investment industries’ adoption of Environmental,...

By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering...

Part 1: Developing Sustainable Mobility & Logistics -- Part 2: Promoting sustainable behavior -- Part 3: Planning and managing sustainable infrastructure -- Part 4: Developing Digital Solutions for the intelligent city.

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...