Economic Report on Africa 2026 – Growth Through Innovation: Harnessing Data and Frontier Technologies for Africa′s Economic Transformation (Paperback)

Entrepreneurship and Business History in Spain : Case Studies Across Centuries (Hardcover)

Chapter 1. Companies and Entrepreneurs: An Approach to the Business History. An Introduction Chapter 2. Business and Patronage in the Art Trade during the Renaissance Chapter 3. Entrepreneurial Strategies and Business Models in the Cadiz Wine Trade: A Comparative Analysis Chapter 4. The Electric Telegraph Company: Origins, Structure, and Legacy of the First Telegraph Business (1846-1869) Chapter 5. Supplying the Observatory: Telescope Makers and Procurement Markets in Lisbon and Granada (19th?20th Centuries) Chapter 6. The Local Credit Bank of Spain as a factor of development (1925-1936) Chapter 7. The Montessori Project: A Global Educational Enterprise Chapter 8. Valeo Martos: Key to Success in the Automotive Components Industry Chapter 9. State-Led Infrastructure Development in the Canary Islands (19th Century-1914) Chapter 10. Geopolitics and phosphates. The case of the mining site of Bu Craa (Western Sahara) in times of Spanish colonization (1962-1975) Chapter 11. The National Bank of Equatorial Guinea (BANGE) and its influence on the development of the Equatorial Guinean economy in the 21st century Chapter 12. The Economic and Social Impact of Fashion throughout History: A Case Study of Zara Chapter 13. Competitive Strategies in Entertainment Sector Companies: A Game Theory Approach Chapter 14. International expansion in the water supply industry (1990-2025): The Agbar Group’s Strategy

Partnership for Sustainable Development : Bridging Disciplines, Solving Complex African Challenges (Paperback)

1. The impact of Cybersecurity practices on financial performance in Banking Systems? 2. Leveraging ARIMAX Model for Accurate Forecasting of Uganda's Composite Price Index: A Robust Approach to Economic Prediction? 3. An Improved Classification Model for Prediction of Potable Water Using Multilayer Perceptron Network? 4. Predicting the growth rate of Uganda economy using foreign trade flow on grains and beverages? 5. Reducing Storage Space of Surveillance Footage Through Data Mining: A target-based feature extraction approach? 6. Records Management in Polytechnic Education: A Survey of Practices at the Institute of Continuing Education, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa? 7.?Violation of Students Human Rights by Secondary School Administrators Implications for Students' Personal Administration in Cross River State, Nigeria? 8. Predictive Analytics for Reducing Food Waste: A Machine Learning Approach to Demand and Shelf-Life Forecasting? 10. Microplastic Pollution and its Associated Health Risks: A Review? 11. Digitalise Case Archive: A Panacea to Students, Lecturers, and Practitioners' Challenge to Access Legal Precedents? 12.?Legal and Public Health Implications of Chemical Nanosensors for Pollution Management? 13.?Sectoral Analysis of Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Impact of Agricultural, Service and Industrial Sectors? 14. Bioethical and Legal Control on Genetically Modified Agricultural Produce: Issues and Challenges? 15. The Role of Data Pre-processing in Shaping the Results of Supervised Learning Predictive Models? 16. Scientometric Analysis of Research Output at Kampala International University (2006?2024): Trends, Collaborations, and Impact? 17. Block chain-Enhanced Data Sharing Framework for Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs): Ensuring Security, Privacy, and User Control? 18. Determinants of Unemployment in East African Countries? 19. An Examination of Perceptual and Production Processes among ESL Hard-of-Hearers? ...


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Partnership for Sustainable Development : Bridging Disciplines, Solving Complex African Challenges (Hardcover)

1. The impact of Cybersecurity practices on financial performance in Banking Systems? 2. Leveraging ARIMAX Model for Accurate Forecasting of Uganda's Composite Price Index: A Robust Approach to Economic Prediction? 3. An Improved Classification Model for Prediction of Potable Water Using Multilayer Perceptron Network? 4. Predicting the growth rate of Uganda economy using foreign trade flow on grains and beverages? 5. Reducing Storage Space of Surveillance Footage Through Data Mining: A target-based feature extraction approach? 6. Records Management in Polytechnic Education: A Survey of Practices at the Institute of Continuing Education, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa? 7.?Violation of Students Human Rights by Secondary School Administrators Implications for Students' Personal Administration in Cross River State, Nigeria? 8. Predictive Analytics for Reducing Food Waste: A Machine Learning Approach to Demand and Shelf-Life Forecasting? 10. Microplastic Pollution and its Associated Health Risks: A Review? 11. Digitalise Case Archive: A Panacea to Students, Lecturers, and Practitioners' Challenge to Access Legal Precedents? 12.?Legal and Public Health Implications of Chemical Nanosensors for Pollution Management? 13.?Sectoral Analysis of Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Impact of Agricultural, Service and Industrial Sectors? 14. Bioethical and Legal Control on Genetically Modified Agricultural Produce: Issues and Challenges? 15. The Role of Data Pre-processing in Shaping the Results of Supervised Learning Predictive Models? 16. Scientometric Analysis of Research Output at Kampala International University (2006?2024): Trends, Collaborations, and Impact? 17. Block chain-Enhanced Data Sharing Framework for Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs): Ensuring Security, Privacy, and User Control? 18. Determinants of Unemployment in East African Countries? 19. An Examination of Perceptual and Production Processes among ESL Hard-of-Hearers? ...


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Public–Private Partnerships in Emerging Economies : Principles, Design and Implementation (Hardcover)

Introduction? 1. The Rationale of Public-Private Partnerships 2. Project Origination and Formulation 3. Risk Allocation 4. Financial Structuring 5. Regulatory Issues 6. PPP Awarding?8.?PPP Execution 9. PPP Termination 10. Ex-Post Assessment 11. Future trends in research on PPP and the main challenges

The Economics of Left Behind Regions : Technology, Industrialization, and Income Divergence (Hardcover)

List of Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgement

List of Abbreviations

List of Appendices

?

Part I: Concept of “Left Behind”, Structural Transformation and

?????????? Sources of Premature Deindustrialization

1. A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Classifying Technological

? Catch-Up and Economic Development

1. Industrialization Dynamics and Structural Transformation
2. Silent Factories: Nature and Sources of Premature Deindustrialization

Part II: Productivity, Sector-concentration and Skill for Prosperity

1. Catalyst of Progress: Productivity as the Engine of Industrialization
2. Sectoral Evolution and Concentration in Low-Income Countries
3. Skills for Prosperity: Educational Foundation of Sustainable Industrialization

Part III: Case Studies

1. Manufacturing Marvel: Chinese Firms Leap into Global Innovation Leadership
2. Progress and Industrialization: Paradoxical Case Studies of Largest Indian Manufacturing Firms
3. Summary and Conclusions

Index

Routledge Handbook on Debt (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction. 1 Perspectives: 1.1 Debt and Patriarchy; 1.2 Debt and Race; 1.3 Debt and Class; 1.4 Debt in Critical Accounting; 1.5 Debt in Sociology; 1.6 Debt in Anthropology; 1.7 Debt in Economics. 2 Interpersonal Relations: 2.1 Debt and Violence; 2.2 Trade, Family and Debt; 2.3 Debt, Migration, and Hope; 2.4 Debts, Gifts and the Opacities of Everyday Life; 2.5 Household, Future-making and Debt; 2.6 Rotating Credit Associations and Debt. 3 Banking: 3.1 Making the Mortgagor Nation; 3.2 Debt and the (im)Morality of Financialization; 3.3 Dual Credit Systems and Financial Inequality; 3.4 Compressing Development and Extending the Banks; 3.5 The Credit Nexus; 3.6 Small Creditors, Large Debtors. 4 Organisations and Institutions: 4.1 The New Politics of Middle-class Indebtedness; 4.2 Debt Management and Social Policy in the Age of Financialization; 4.3 Digital Lending; 4.4 Sovereign and Social Debts; 4.5 Economic Reparation Through the Lens of Debt; 4.6 How Debts Shape Democratic Experience; 4.7 The Long History of Debt Imprisonment. 5 Global Relations: 5.1 Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Reparations; 5.2 Subprime Empire and the Histories of in-Between Finance; 5.3 Weaponizing Debt; 5.4 Debt and Rural Agrarian Economies; 5.5 Bonded Sovereignties. 6 Politicizing Debt: 6.1 A Feminist Reading of Debt; 6.2 Fighting Illegitimate Debts; 6.3 The Ecological Debt; 6.4 Decommodification of Debt. Index.

Development Studies in Collaboration : Contributions from Tanzania and Zambia (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Collaborative Insights in Development Studies from Tanzania and Zambia?Nyamwaya Munthali, Tiina Kontinen, and Shukrani K. Mbirigenda??Part 1:? Decolonizing Development Studies? ?2. The Decoloniality Discourse in African Development Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis? 3. Decolonizing Development Studies: Lessons from the Dar es Salaam School of Thought? 4.Toward Decolonizing Global Climate Change Governance: Lessons from Nationally Determined Contributions of Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia? 5. Toward Decolonizing Development Relationships? Analysis of Recent Policies of Tanzania and Finland??Part 2: Epistemic Justice in Curricula and Pedagogies in Development Studies??6. Evolution, Development and the Core Competencies of Development Studies: The Cases of University of Dar es Salam, Tanzania and the University of Zambia? 7. Conceptualizing Curricula Justice with the Case of Development Studies? 8. Decolonizing Pedagogical Practices: Integrating Feminist Perspectives in Gender and Development Studies Education??Part 3:? Emerging Scholarship in Development Studies??9. Techno-Solutionism and the Use of Emerging Technologies in Pushing Frontiers of Mining: New Methods and Justifications for Expanding Extractivism? 10. Energy Transition Goes Local: Everyday Security in Shifting Away from Charcoal in Chelstone Township, Lusaka, Zambia? 11. Militarized Conservation and Maasai Displacement in Ngorongoro: A Collapse of the Multiple Land Use Model?? 12.Leveraging Online Platforms for Inclusive Governance: Insights from Selected Civil Society Organizations in Tanzania? 13. Toward Localization of Women's Empowerment Initiatives: Analysis of Village Community Banks in Tanzania? 14. Conclusion: Centering African Perspectives in Development Studies Thought and Practice?

Poverty, Marginalization and Vulnerability in a Post-Pandemic World (Hardcover, 1)

1. Poverty and inequality in Post Pandemic World - an introduction?2. Child Poverty and Health Inequalities in India ? Policy Responses Required: Post COVID-19 Recovery Plan for Marginalised Communities in India in the 2020s?3. Internet Access and its Impact on Inequality in Peru in the COVID-19 Era?4. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global poverty?5. Poverty, Hunger and COVID-19 in Urban in Zimbabwe: Manifestation and Impact?6. The Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalised Sections of the Society in Selected Southern Africa Cities?7. A Scoping Literature Review of the Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Poverty in Ghana?8. Pandemic Disruptions: The Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Bangladesh and Pathways to Recovery?9. Migration in South Asia: COVID-19 and the Changing Landscape

FinTech, Financial Inclusion, and Sustainable Development : Disruption, Innovation, and Growth (Paperback)

1. FinTech, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Development: Disruption, Innovation, and Growth 2. Fintech Innovations of the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Overview 3. FinTech and Financial Inclusion on Economic Growth 4. The Role of Financial Technology in Addressing Poverty from the classical economic theory standpoint 5. The Role of Financial Technology in Addressing Poverty from the Neoclassical Economic Theory Standpoint 6. Digital Transformation in Finance: How Fintech is Shaping the Digital Future of Banking 7. The Role of FinTech in Transforming Payments and Banking in the 21st Century 8. InsurTech: Revolutionizing Insurance Technology through FinTech 9. WealthTech: Reinventing Investment and Wealth Management Through FinTech 10. Promoting Financial Inclusion with Financial Technology (FinTech) 11. Enhancing Financial Inclusion through Big Data in FinTech 12. FinTech, Green Finance, and Sustainable Finance 13. Ethical Considerations in the Field of Financial Technology (FinTech) 14. The Influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) On Digital Financial Inclusion in The Finance Sector 15. FinTech, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Development: Disruption, Innovation, and Growth: A Conclusion 

Advancing a Society for All Ages in Asia and the Pacific (Paperback)

Report of the Inter–agency Task Force on Financi – Financing for Sustainable Development? Report: Implementing the Sevilla Commitment (Paperback)

The Entrepreneurial Journey : The Butterfly’s Evolution From Story to Start-up (Hardcover)

Prologue From Caterpillar to Butterfly. Chapter 1 Vision Ignited: The Spark of Entrepreneurship. Chapter 2 Starting Up: From Idea to Action. Chapter 3 The Entrepreneur’s Compass: Let the Customer Guide You. Chapter 4 Forging Ahead: From Business Models and Investor Persuasion. Chapter 5 The Hidden Edge: Mentorship and the Entrepreneur’s Grit. Chapter 6 Pivoting with Purpose: Learning from Setbacks. Chapter 7 The Startup Cycle: Learn, Iterate, Advance. Chapter 8 Building the Foundation: Venture Creation and Market Validation. Chapter 9 Inside the Startup: Culture, Chaos, and Creativity. Chapter 10 Agile Thinking: Innovating on the Fly. Chapter 11 Startup Fundamentals: Value Proposition, Metrics, and the Founders Team. Chapter 12 Founder’s Journey: What It Really Takes. Chapter 13 Scaling Up: Customer Acquisition and Networking. Chapter 14 The Entrepreneur’s Breaking Point: conflicts and crisis. Chapter 15 Am I a Social Entrepreneur? Identifying Purpose and Impact. Chapter 16 Funding Dilemmas: Balancing Money, Growth and Freedom. Chapter 17 The Leader’s Roles: Inside and Outside. Chapter 18 Closing the Circle: The Venture and the Entrepreneur. Epilogue From Story to Startup: Your Turn to Fly

The Entrepreneurial Journey : The Butterfly’s Evolution From Story to Start-up (Paperback)

Prologue From Caterpillar to Butterfly. Chapter 1 Vision Ignited: The Spark of Entrepreneurship. Chapter 2 Starting Up: From Idea to Action. Chapter 3 The Entrepreneur’s Compass: Let the Customer Guide You. Chapter 4 Forging Ahead: From Business Models and Investor Persuasion. Chapter 5 The Hidden Edge: Mentorship and the Entrepreneur’s Grit. Chapter 6 Pivoting with Purpose: Learning from Setbacks. Chapter 7 The Startup Cycle: Learn, Iterate, Advance. Chapter 8 Building the Foundation: Venture Creation and Market Validation. Chapter 9 Inside the Startup: Culture, Chaos, and Creativity. Chapter 10 Agile Thinking: Innovating on the Fly. Chapter 11 Startup Fundamentals: Value Proposition, Metrics, and the Founders Team. Chapter 12 Founder’s Journey: What It Really Takes. Chapter 13 Scaling Up: Customer Acquisition and Networking. Chapter 14 The Entrepreneur’s Breaking Point: conflicts and crisis. Chapter 15 Am I a Social Entrepreneur? Identifying Purpose and Impact. Chapter 16 Funding Dilemmas: Balancing Money, Growth and Freedom. Chapter 17 The Leader’s Roles: Inside and Outside. Chapter 18 Closing the Circle: The Venture and the Entrepreneur. Epilogue From Story to Startup: Your Turn to Fly

South Sudanese Displacement and State-Making : “The previous war was better than this one” (Hardcover)

Part 1: War and Peace in the Making of South Sudan??1.1. South Sudan’s 2013-2030 Civil War and Displacement: And Introduction? 1.2. The ‘Trouble’ of Boundaries, Border/lands and People’s Fate? 1.3. Getting In: Research Sites??Part 2: The Idea of South Sudan in the Minds of Displaced Citizens??2.1. The Militarised and Politicised Context of Settlements? 2.2. “We Were Not Prepared”: Fighting for VS. Governing the State? 2.3. “The Previous War was Better Than This One”: Violence, Modernity and Change? 2.4. Life in the Ugandan Settlements??Part 3: Living Between Two Worlds: Push and Pull Factors??3.1. The View from the Border? 3.2. Rethinking Labels and Their Consequences? 3.3. Who Moves: Hidden Determinations of Mobility and Immobility? 3.4. Following the Story in an Unpredictable Environment? 3.5. Reconfiguring Gender Roles in Exile? 4.0. Interlude??Part 4: Displacement, Cross-Border Mobility and State-Making??4.1. The Economy of Movement? 4.2. Shifting Physical and Imaginary Borders??4.3. Negotiating Access Between Legality and Illegality, Formality and Informality? 4.4. Interlude: Between Borders? 4.5. Displacement Re-Shaping the Political Economy of the Central State??Part 5: Conclusion: Paradoxes of Displacement and State-Making??5.1. Paradoxes of Displacement and State-Making? 5.2. A Cross-Border Framework: Multi-Site Living as a Response to Displacement? 5.3. Arua as a City of Refuge? 5.4. Bidibidi Settlement into a City-Like Structure? 5.5. In What Ways Displacement Helps Us Understand Modern State-Making Processes?

Economic Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean : Policies and Solutions for Meaningful Change (Hardcover)

Foreword??Introduction:?The risks of inequality to economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean??PART I:?Macroeconomic Factors and Public Policy??1. Economic Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): the risks to development??2. Extractivism, Leftist Policies and Inequality: achievements, failures, and lessons of the Pink Tide in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay??3. The Public Debt and Inequality Nexus: Evidence and lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean??4. Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Poverty, Inequality, and Development??5. From margins to markets: Revisiting Arthur Lewis in the context of offender reintegration in Jamaica??PART II:?Specific Mechanisms and Sectoral Impacts??6. Globalisation and Income Inequality: Evaluating the Role of Governance Quality and Financial Development??7. Remittances and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: An empirical exploration??8. Dollarisation and inequality in Central America and the Caribbean??9. Trade, FDI and workers: Evidence from enterprise-level data in Costa Rica??10. Unequal Structural Transformation Potential and the Sustainable Development Goals: Considerations for Small Island Developing States??PART III:?Climate Justice??11. A New Generation of Have-Nots: An Exploration of Growing Inequality in the Face of a Changing Climate??12. Strength in the Storm? Experiences of Indigenous Caribbean and Latin American Women Entrepreneurs Facing Climate Challenges??13. Integrating Conservation, Indigenous Rights, and Socio-Economic Change: Lessons from San Martin, Peru??Conclusion:?Would policies without politics succeed??

Decolonising Communication for Development and Social Change : Critical Reflections from Sub-Saharan Africa (Hardcover)

INTRODUCTION:?Whose Knowledge Counts? Decolonisation of Development Communication and Social Change in Postcolonial African Contexts??PART 1: DECOLONISING COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES IN AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION??1: Decolonising Communication for Development and Social Change in Higher Education: The Impact of Digital Technologies in Kenya??2: Decolonising Internal Communication for Employee Engagement: A Systematic Literature Review of Higher Education Institutions in South Africa??3: Reimagining Communication for Development in Higher Education: The Influence of Digital Technologies on Decolonisation? 4: Alien Communication Systems and Shifting Educational Approaches: Catalysts for the Erosion of Cultural Values in Malawi??PART 2: THE DECOLONIAL PROJECT IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION, AND DIGITAL JOURNALISM??5: Decolonising South African Public Health Communication: A Stylistic Analysis of the Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ngoho Community Newspaper??6: Deconstructing Colonial Narratives of HIV/AIDS in South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Film Yesterday (2003)??7: Transforming Digital Journalism in South Africa: Striving for a Paradigm Shift towards Decolonisation??8: Citizen Journalism during the War in Tigray: Practices and Challenges??PART 3: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE, NEWS MEDIA, AND DEVELOPMENT JOURNALISM FOR SOCIAL CHANGE??9: Unmasking Fake News: The Influence of Digital Media Literacy in the Fight Against Misinformation among Marginalised Communities in South Africa??10: The Practices and Predicaments of Development Journalism in Tigrai, Ethiopia??11: Empowering Indigenous and Minority Communities: The Role of Community Newspapers in Rural Community Development and Social Change Communication??12: Social Media as a Platform for Indigenous Cultural Expression among South African Youth??PART 4:

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Homes and Hopes: Mobilizing Private Capital for Affordable Housing and Family Investment in Kazakhstan (Paperback)

Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2026 (Paperback)

Homes and Hopes: Mobilizing Private Capital for Affordable Housing and Family Investment in Kazakhstan (Paperback)

Competing in the Face of Climate Risks: Evidence from Firms and Policy Priorities in Menaap (Paperback)

World Development Report 2026 – Artificial Intelligence for Development (Paperback)

The Keynesian Theory of Economic Development (Paperback, 1)

Preface 1. Classical and Post-Classical Precursors 2. The Structure of an Underdeveloped Economy 3. The Socially Optimal Rate of Growth 4. Capital Accumulation and Productive Capacity 5. The Technological Role in Economic Development 6. Dual Unemployment in Underdeveloped Economies 7. The Redistributive Role in Economic Development 8. The Monetary Role in Economic Development 9. The Fiscal Role in Economic Development 10. Foreign Trade and Economic Development 11. Epilogue on Post-Keynesian Growth Theories Appendix: The United Nations and Economic Development Selected Bibliography Index

Introduction to Keynesian Dynamics (Paperback, 1)

Preface1. Macro-economic Methodology- Introduction Part I: Basic Functional Relationships 2. The Consumption Function 3. The Investment Function 4. The Liquidity Function 5. The Savings-Investment Adjusting Function Part II: Dynamic Income Behaviour 6. The Multiplier and Income Fluctuations 7. The Dynamic Stability of Equilibrium 8. The Dynamics of Inflation 9. Income, Employment, and International Equilibrium 10. Price Flexibility and Automatic Full Employment Part III: Secular Economic Dynamics 11. Secular Macroeconomic Theorems 12. Capital Accumulation and Equilibrium 13. Domestic Growth and International Development Index

Gabon : The Development of a Nation (Paperback)

Preface Introduction to the English Edition Introduction 1. The Country and Its People 2. From Discovery to Independence 3. The Institutional, Administrative and Political Framework 4. Analysis of the Gabonese Economy by Sector 5. Infrastructures 6. Social Policies 7. Gabon and the World Conclusion: To Take Up the Challenge Notes Appendix Bibliography Index