Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Prologue -- 2 Subjective well-­being: happiness and life satisfaction in India and South Africa -- 3 Mental health: depression, anxiety, and anger in the US -- 4 Domestic violence:...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The emergence of the Washington Consensus in Latin America: Theoretical foundations and challenges -- From the import substitution...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue to the English edition -- Prologue to the Spanish edition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The evolution of urban policy in developing countries: a...

Of the 54African states, only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries. The economic activities in Africa are still dominated by the production and trade of agricultural and mineral commodities. This situation...

This book offers an innovative examination of how 'low-technology' industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In...

When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles to growth, than when the two sides fail to co-operate or engage in harmful collusion....

The transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process, though sometimes not given the attention it deserves and requires, is the establishment and expansion of new private firms.This book analyzes new...

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments,...

How would Palestine organise itself as a state economically? A respected, international group of academics have come together under the editorship of Cobham and Kanafani to analyze and attempt to answer this difficult question

Unique in its depth this book assesses the postures of the new consensus topic by topic, whilst posing strong alternatives. It will improve and stimulate understanding of one of the most important issues in international economics