Drawing on the pioneering works of Daniel Lerner, Everett Rogers, and Wilbur Schramm as well as his own personal experiences in the field, Emile G. McAnany builds a new, historically cognizant paradigm of communication for development and social change for the future that supplements technology...

DEMANDING DEVALUATION -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Conditional Preference Theory of Undervalued Exchange Rates -- 2. Cross-Country Patterns in Exchange Rate Policy and Preferences -- 3. Why China Undervalues...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 Economic Development: Concept and Measurement -- 1.1 The Concept of Economic Development -- 1.2 Measurement of Economic Growth -- 1.3...

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Innovation Processes in Agro-Ecological Transitions of Developing Countries -- 1. Innovation Platforms as a Tool to Support Technological Change in the Agri-Food Sector in Developing Countries: A...

Focusing on 13 developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the contextual functions of HR in these countries. In addition it analyses the more general issues of HRM in cross-national settings

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Foundations: Innovation for Development, the Rise of a New Discourse -- 1. The Project of Development as a Discourse -- 1.1. Discourses, framings and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1. Transforming Elephants into Tigers: Development Patterns in the 1990s and Beyond -- 2. The Issue of Development -- Part II New Tigers Burning Bright -- 3. A Tiger...

Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) from industrialized economies that are active in developing countries face challenging hurdles due to economic and institutional discrepancies between their home and host countries. This book focuses on the interaction between the traditional logics of developing...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BASIC FRAMEWORK -- III. BASELINE CALIBRATIONS -- IV. DOMESTIC ADDITIONAL EFFORT, POVERTY TRAPS, AND "TAKEOFF" -- V. EXTENSIONS -- VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES.

Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book...