Development Economics Products

By Annette Naudin

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers, Cultural Entrepreneurship focuses on how…

Paperback – 2019-12-06
Routledge

By Colin Williams

How many businesses start-ups conduct some or all of their trade ‘off-the-books’? And how many enterprises continue to do some of their work off-the-books once they are more established? What should be done about them? Should governments adopt ever more punitive measures to eradicate them? Or…

Paperback – 2019-12-06
Routledge

Edited by Silvia Sacchetti, Asimina Christoforou, Michele Mosca

Social regeneration is about the transformative processes that, through institutional choices that embody cooperation and inclusion, develop opportunities and capabilities for weak categories, and transversally for society. The challenge of social regeneration can be addressed, in part, through…

Paperback – 2019-12-05
Routledge

By George Tesar, Zsuzsanna Vincze

Interest in generally expanding the understanding of small and medium-sized enterprises, especially understanding their strategies and operations to enter international markets, is growing rapidly among researchers and academics globally. Government officials, regional and economic specialists, and…

Paperback – 2019-12-05
Routledge

By Stuart Sinclair

Originally published in 1978 Urbanization and Labour Markets is a useful companion for those studying in geography, economics or development studies. The book provides a simple guide to the subject of labour in cities in underdeveloped countries. It also set out the major controversies relating to…

Paperback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urbanization

By Richard Tomlinson

Originally published in 1990, Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa examines the democratic future of South Africa in the context of policy options and constraints. The book looks at the issue of South Africa’s future including access to land and housing, marked regional differences in…

Paperback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urbanization

Edited by David Drakakis-Smith

Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development. The contributions range from studies of peripheral Third World states, such as…

Paperback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urbanization

By Robert N Gwynne

Originally published in 1985, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America focuses on the process of industrialisation in Latin America. The book links together the distinctive process of industrialisation to wider issues of urban and regional development in Latin America. The book looks in…

Paperback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Urbanization

Edited by Axel Berkofsky, Christopher W. Hughes, Paul Midford, Marie Söderberg

Both the European Union and Japan have been major beneficiaries and supporters of the liberal international order, first led by the United States since the end of World War II. During this period, they have emerged as global powers, however, the very order that nurtured their rise is now facing…

Paperback – 2019-11-28
Routledge

By Paolo Verme

This title was first published in 2001: Exploring the relationship between the recession and labour supply in Kazakhstan during the 1990s, this volume develops an innovative new model of the transitional process in the context of the CIS. It departs from conventional economic models explaining the…

Paperback – 2019-11-11
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Guanzhong James Wen

Edited by Ding Lu

This title was first published in 2003. This book represents one of the recent internationally coordinated initiatives to access the rich and still unfolding implications of China's participation in economic globalization in the context of the nation's accession to the World Trade Organization.…

Paperback – 2019-11-11
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Routledge Revivals

By Peter Nijkamp

Edited by Iulia Traistaru

This title was first published in 2003. Since 1990, Central and Eastern European countries have experienced increased economic integration with the European Union. The spatial implications of this process have been little investigated so far. Have patterns of regional specialization and industrial…

Paperback – 2019-11-11
Routledge
Routledge Revivals