This book provides unique insight into the challenges and opportunities of structural transformation and economic development in Africa. It highlights the vital role played by enterprise, in particular the participation of women in this process, a...More info...
Shows how international economic law addresses climate and environmental issues associated with the unsustainable energy production and use across countries. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, policymakers, students and others intereste...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226722047)
A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity’s most powerful and dange...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226825625)
On American energy and its persisting power to destroy. In the United States, the promise of a green-energy future is complicated by its realities. The country’s legacy energy systems are decrepit; the rollout of new technologies is...More info...
Learning as Development examines how people learn around the world and considers what international development would look like if viewed through the prism of human development. In this groundbreaking second edition of Lea...More info...
In this groundbreaking second edition of Learning as Development, Daniel A. Wagner transforms our understanding of international development by positioning learning at its core. Through a compelling global lens, Wagner demonstrates how educ...More info...
This book explores the complex interplay between AI and corporate-driven sustainable development. Merging theoretical insights with practical applications, it engages debates on the ethical use of AI in sustainable development and corporate respo...More info...
Revised and updated for the third edition, this text is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development. Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical fra...More info...
This book provides an interdisciplinary look at how non-financial performance, sustainability reports, and corporate governance can be used as tools to facilitate sustainable economic development. It examines emerging trends within corporate socia...More info...
(Pub. Date: 02-Sep-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226841090)
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are definedor constrainedby the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: whats go...More info...
(Pub. Date: 02-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226841113)
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009555593)
This book offers a historically grounded and multi-scalar analysis of agrarian change in Nepals far-eastern Tarai. It shows how this region has since the 1700s evolved from a forested frontier home to relatively autonomous Adivasi (indigenous) culti...More info...
This book is for policymakers, social scientists, and readers interested in policies that can transform household trajectories. It reveals how homeownership programs drive economic growth, empower citizens, and influence local politics. It also offer...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009637008)
Which policies can help households improve their economic, social and political status? Building Social Mobility is an in-depth exploration of how policies to subsidize homeownership in low- and middle-income countries shape beneficiaries decision-m...More info...
Examines whether the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, such as AI, will lead to greater economic uncertainty, environmental collapse and social unrest, or whether they will help achieve shared prosperity and sustainable development...More info...
This book explores the levels of cooperation and the phenomena of convergence among BRICS nations. It provides an in-depth look into the financial and banking systems among these rapidly developing economies and the steps they have taken to foster d...More info...
This book examines the underlying conditions that give rise to effective, efficient, and bureaucratically inclusive states. A key reading for advanced students and researchers in these areas, this book draws real-life policy lessons for practition...More info...
Beyond Liberalism and Communism: Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case presents a new conceptual framework of socialism and applies it to the study of socialist development in China, shedding new light on modern China and signposting novel...More info...
This book considers how development cooperation principles and practices can be made more inclusive and impactful. Global development researchers and students will benefit from the book’s ingenious blending of sector-specific insights and broader...More info...
(Pub. Date: 26-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226841434)
An everyday introduction to the most consequential science of modern life. University of Chicago economist Gary Becker won the Nobel Prize largely for his advancement of human capital theorythe idea that investing in a persons knowledge a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 26-Aug-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226841441)
An everyday introduction to the most consequential science of modern life. University of Chicago economist Gary Becker won the Nobel Prize largely for his advancement of human capital theorythe idea that investing in a persons knowledge a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 26-Aug-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300275810)
A compelling examination of how economic development projects ignore local history, and the effects of this shortsightedness Foreign aid planners rarely consider the history of the societies in which they work, an oversight noted in...More info...
This book provides a critical analysis of how credit rating agencies engage with the political and economic dynamics of developing countries. Focusing on Brazil and Argentina, it demonstrates how S&P Global, Moody’s Investor Serv...More info...
Achieving sustainable development goals in Jamaican communities requires addressing persistent obstacles that have hindered progress in the past. This book examines how accessing loans and grants can help commu...More info...
Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecology Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-f...More info...
