This book argues that development is a comprehensive societal process with two key elements: economic restructuring and sociocultural transformation. While either of these elements alone can initiate change, a strong development plan needs to address both in order to succeed

This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...

Sustainable Industrialization in Africa explores the issues that confront development policy in the context of the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda from an African perspective. The book argues that development is an ultimate outcome of sustainable, equitable industrialization, and that...

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

Alfred Maizels' work on commodity trade and prices documented trends in a major area of international economic relations. This book elaborates the ideas in the tradition of Maizels' contributons, and discusses and extends these theories in relation to current problems.

Part I: Globalization, Input Trade and Sanyal’s Contribution to Trade Theory -- Chapter 1: Middle Products Revisited -- Chapter 2: Competition Policy vs. Industrial Policy -- Part II: Trade, Technology and Increasing Returns -- Chapter 3: Protectionism and Increasing Returns -- Chapter 4:...

Tomer considers recently accumulated knowledge related to the human brain's functioning and development to better understand the relationship between human capital and human development in successful economies