This Palgrave Pivot features original research studies of wage inequality in African countries including South Africa …1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Wage Inequality: Evidence from South Africa -- 3. The Urban … Wage Premium in Africa -- 4. Gender-Based Wage Differentials and Employment in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1995-2004 …

. Based on both theoretical and empirical studies from Asia and Africa, the book establishes the relationship between three …: Rural Economy and Its Transformations; Urbanisation and Sustainable Livelihood; and Innovations and Instruments of …

Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This … book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa's 'apex' cities, probing how they have altered structurally over …

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that … urbanisation’ in which huge amount of resources are wasted, the local environment is systematically damaged and ordinary people … Northwest China -- Chapter 4: Understanding of China’s State and Market -- Chapter 5: Conundrum with Distorted Urbanisation …