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Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health and macroeconomic volatility, many are mired in inescapable poverty while millions others are on the brink of poverty.The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume brings together essays from leading scholars to study the critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, including the relationship between poverty and vulnerability as well as vulnerability arising from ill-health and external shocks.Reflecting the multi-dimensionality of vulnerability, the volume showcases a variety of methodologies that offer new perspectives on the use and relevance of vulnerability in economic development. Case studies focus on major developing countries like China and India, countries in transition, small island states and failing states. The volume concludes by offering a prescription on the necessary requirements to tackle vulnerability in developing countries, including strengthening household resilience, building appropriate safeguards against risk, and creating and maintaining quality institutions.

This study offers that it is consistent with and even complementary to the older and more traditional development strategies. We survey the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries which, admittedly, is wide and covers a range of issues from culture and values; institutional barriers such as financial sector development, governance and property rights; to the adequacy of education and technical skills. A broad literature has also developed on foreign direct investment and its positive and negative effects on technology transfer and entrepreneurship. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of studies examined the development of small and medium sized enterprises in transition economies. As these economies moved from centralized economies to market economies, enterprise and entrepreneurship became important. Yet, other studies examine the effects infrastructural development and the macroeconomy on entrepreneurship. With such a wide scope of issues, a framework for synthesizing the literature is needed. This study offers that the identification of the externalities which affect entrepreneurship provides a useful framework to examine the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries

This essential collection contains the most influential articles written over the past two decades that help us to understand the role of entrepreneurs in the development process, both theoretically and empirically. These important papers span a wide methodological range, from theoretical models, over cross-country studies, to firm- and household-level studies, utilizing both regression analysis and simulation techniques. Professor Beck has written an insightful introduction which provides an overview of the area of entrepreneurship in developing countries

Meinung zur Lage von Frauen in Entwicklungsländern.

The concern with the impact of industrial property legislation and practices on the developing countries, at both the national and international levels, has so far been confined almost entirely to patents and patent-related transactions. This focus on the protection of knowledge concerning production processes reflects, on the one hand, a preoccupation with the terms and conditions which owners of technology may be able to obtain for its sale or lease, when their proprietary position is reinforced by legal instruments; and on the other hand, a recognition that unless the developing countries can themselves control the generation of a significant proportion of the technology they employ, it is unlikely either that appropriate technology will be produced, or that good use will be made of what is already available and relevant.

First published in 1963, this study of corruption in the developing countries of Africa takes as its point of comparison Britain, pre-1880, as the authors question whether Britain's experience in overcoming corruption can throw any light the means of overcoming corruption in contemporary developing countries.

We specified in our launching issue that the aim of the journal is to 'give a broad international coverage of subjects relating to entrepreneurship in China'. We have also come to realize that Chinese entrepreneurship would be better appreciated if it were to be explained and explored from an international lens. It is for this reason that this special issue of the journal is dedicated to the topic of entrepreneurship in developing countries. This is to acknowledge that entrepreneurship is the engine fueling innovation, job creation and economic growth in China and other developing economies al

The management of epilepsy in developing countries requires cultural knowledge and approaches beyond the usual practices of western medicine. This paper focuses on explanatory mod els of epilepsy in different cultures throughout Africa, India, China, South America, and the Middle East. It examines the social impact of epilepsy on individuals, families and commu nities. The role of traditional healing practices is reviewed, along with new policies for allocation of scarce health care resources for the treatment of epilepsy in the developing world.

Developed or Developing? The first database detailing International Organizations, treaties', and Generalized System of Preferences (GSPs) approaches to categorizing countries as developing (or developed). Find out which criteria are used to designate countries as "developing" in dozens of documents, and compare how 200 jurisdictions are classified under almost 20 different lists

The rapid urbanization in many developing countries over the past half century seems to have been accompanied by excessively high levels of concentration of the urban population in very large cities. Some degree of urban concentration may be desirable initially to reduce inter- and intraregional infrastructure expenditures. But in a mature system of cities, economic activity is more spread out. Standardized manufacturing production tends to be de-concentrated into smaller and medium-size metropolitan areas, whereas production in large metropolitan areas focuses on services, research and development, and non-standardized manufacturing. The costs of excessive concentration (traffic accidents, health costs from exposure to high levels of air and water pollution, and time lost to long commutes) stem from the large size of megacities and underdeveloped institutions and human resources for urban planning and management. Alleviating excessively high urban concentration requires investments in interregional transport and telecommunications to facilitate de-concentration of industry. It also requires fiscal de-concentration, so that interior cities can raise the fiscal resources and provide the services needed to compete with primate cities for industry and population.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Half Title -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I: Background Material -- 1. Privatisation: The UK Experience and Developing Countries -- 2. Some Background Observations on Privatisation -- 3. Privatisation: Macro-economics and Modalities -- 4. Privatisation: Modalities and Strategies -- 5. Introducing Competition and Regulatory Requirements -- 6. Some Organisational Implications of Privatisation -- Part II: Country Papers -- 7. Privatisation in Pakistan -- 8. Privatisation in India -- 9. Privatisation in Sri Lanka -- 10. Privatisation in Malaysia: Ministry of Public Enterprises -- 11. Privatisation in Jordan -- 12. Privatisation in China -- 13. Privatisation in Kenya -- 14. Privatisation in Nigeria -- 15. Privatisation in Ghana -- 16. Privatisation in Africa -- 17. Privatisation in Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda -- 18. Privatisation in Peru -- 19. Privatisation in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago -- Part III : Concluding Review -- 20. Concluding Review -- Index