Steven Brakman & Charles van Marrewijk 
Economics of Developing and Emerging Markets [PDF ebook] 

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line …

This book investigates why economics makes less visible progress over time than scientific fields with a strong practical component, where interactions with physical technologies play a key role. The …

Religion and development have been intertwined since development”s beginnings, yet faith-based aid and development agencies consistently fail to consider how their theology and practice intersect. T …

With new material and up-to-date information, this book examines the current state of Iran, exploring a wide range of areas including the economy, finance, politics, the media, and the position of wo …

When BBC Radio 4”s Material World programme announced a search for the UK”s top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pes …

This work offers analytical examination of the facts that will shape the India of the future and determine whether India emerges as Asia”s new economic tiger, a stabilizing factor in a turbulent reg …

Focusing on Karnataka in India, this study examines the implications of the model of development sought to be introduced in the entire country through the governance reforms of the post-1991 period — …

China’s rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism. This book focuses on the urban transformations …

The Chinese insurance market is expanding enormously as risk adversity takes hold in the economy while the role of the State as guarantor of commerce is gradually reduced. In addition, insurance is a …

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 shar …