In the light of challenges to sustainable development in the post-2015 development agenda, this study assesses how increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The following findings are established...

India has registered a high rate of economic growth, about 7-8 percent in the recent years; and the same is further projected for the next few decades. After the adoption of liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) policies since 1991, India has also done well in areas such as...

This entry focuses upon the current state of microlending activity, and particularly for-profit activity, with ethical analysis of such lending, particularly as it pertains to prospects for poverty alleviation and development for the global poor. Several specific events have lately altered the...

"This book seeks to examine the existing variability of development in the global marketplace and to identify the catalysts responsible for this disparity of success, analyzing the economic frontiers, social norms, and infrastructural capabilities that factor into the socio-economic growth of...