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...

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...

1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign Aid Conditionality and Economic Growth -- 3. Types of Aid -- 4. An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health -- 5. Evaluating Aid Agencies: Challenges, Comparisons, and Causes of Best Aid Practices -- 6. What Influences World...

1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe and Asia -- 2. A Taxonomy of Post-Communist Economies after 30 Years of Reforms -- 3. The Central Asian Countries’ Economies in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. The...

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.

1. Crossing Borders in South and Southeast Asia: Assessing Existing Problems through a New Lens -- 2. Addressing Urban Poverty through Empowerment and Inclusion in India -- 3. Development Efforts toward Ecological Sustainability in Calcutta: Transformation of a Metropolis -- 4. De facto State...

Chapter I Introduction -- Part I The International Relations of Population Resources and Environment -- Chapter II Development: Global Strategy of the Balance of Population Potential and Resource -- Chapter III Global Warming and China’s Development -- Part II Strengthening the External...

Part 1: Introducing Regional Integration.-The Economic Value of Regional Integration in Africa -- Current Account Im(balances) and Adjustments to Targets for Regional Integration in West Africa: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards -- Obstacles to Strengthening Economic Integration in the West...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Kamakura Period (1185AD-1333AD) -- 3. The Muromachi Period (1333AD-1568AD) & Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568AD-1600AD) -- 4. The Tokugawa Period (1600AD-1868AD) -- 5. The Meiji Period (1868AD-1912AD) -- 6. The Taisho Period (1912AD-1926AD) -- 7. The Showa Period...

PART ONE -- Chapter 1: This chapter overviews historical connection between China and Africa and moves on to engage critical debates surrounding Africa countries shift towards China, exploring scholarly discussions that have accompanied this change from within and outside African continent --...