In the past decades, a great interest has emerged in understanding the nature of people's well-being beyond consumption opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research based on self-reports on people's satisfaction with life has made a significant contribution to this understanding....

This book describes China's growing range of activities in Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan region. The three most important instruments China has at its disposal in Africa are development aid, investments and trade policy. The Chinese government, which believes the Western development aid...

"Studies of the global political economy have rarely engaged with development in the Caribbean, the thought of its indigenous intellectuals, or the non-sovereign territories of the region. Matthew Bishop compares the development of the independent English-speaking islands of St Lucia and St...