Many developing countries - Viet Nam included - continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive...

The 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) shifted the nature of the political economy challenge associated with achieving a global emissions trajectory that is consistent with a climate. The shifts generated by CoP21 place...

This work examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Structural transformation in developing countries -- Employment -- Productivity growth -- Urbanization -- Industrialization -- Poverty -- Role of the state and policy -- Index

Foreword -- Preface -- Child labour: definition, history and survey of existing literature and policies -- Derivation of supply functions of child labour from household behaviour -- Trade sanction and child labour -- Why do composite policies sometimes fail? -- Is reduction of poverty a...