This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include trade relations, investment in sub-Saharan Africa,...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy" -- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR -- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime -- The Welfare State as Political Process: From...

Die deutsch-deutsche Markenlandschaft -- DIE AUSGANGSSITUATION -- MARKENSOZIOLOGISCHE GRUNDSÄTZE -- PSYCHOSOZIALE FUNKTION DER OSTMARKEN -- MARKE UND KONSUM IN DER DDR – EINE WERBE- UND MARKENFREIE ZONE? -- ERFOLGSSTRATEGIEN DER OSTMARKEN -- Erfolgreiche Ostmarken von Anker bis Zetti -- ANKER...

This book is the one of the first-if not the first one-to address aid effectiveness from a comparative economics perspective. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition of its republics to market structures and representative forms of government, the European Commission had...

A Brief History of Tibet -- Chinese-style Development in Tibet: Narrative -- Tibetan Unrest and the Dalai Lama: Narrative -- Determinants of Spatial (Dis)integration: Analytics -- Going Back to Tibet: Analytic Narrative -- Ethnic Autonomy and Tibet: Policy Options -- Epilogue: Center versus...

This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analysing...

This book analyzes the political obstacles to economic recovery, and the economic consequences of democratic political reforms. The contributors focus on rulers of shaky states where civil strife has caused economic devastation. If rebuilding requires regime change, are we asking these...

This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to...

This book encapsulates the ‘New Normal Policy’ which has changed the regional policy between China and the African continent. This volume emphasises China’s role in Africa as a collaborator in an attempt to fulfil the Beijing consensus in emerging countries. The contextual research...