In today's world, it is crucial to understand how cities and urban spaces operate in order for them to continue to develop and improve. To ensure cities thrive, further study on past and current policies and practices is required to provide a thorough understanding. Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East examines the poetics and politics of city and urban spaces in contemporary South Asia and the Middle East and seeks to shed light on how individuals constitute, experience, and navigate urban spaces in everyday life. This book aims to initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the study of city life by engaging disciplines such as urban geography, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, and human geography. Covering key topics such as racism, urban spaces, social inequality, and gender roles, this reference work is ideal for government officials, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

A Guide to Econometric Methods for the Energy-Growth Nexus presents, explains and compares all the available econometrics methods pertinent to the energy-growth nexus. Chapters cover methods and applications, starting with older econometric methods and moving toward new ones. Each chapter presents the method and facts about its applications, providing step-by-step explanations about the ways the method meets the demands of the field. In addition, applied case studies and practical research steps are included to enhance the learning process. By touching on all relevant econometric methods for the energy-growth nexus, this book gives energy-growth researchers and students all they need to tackle the subject matter.

The Economy of Ireland (14th edition) takes a holistic examination of the Irish Economy in light of events including the Celtic Tiger boom, recession, recovery and a global pandemic. The textbook considers the evolution of the Irish economy over time; the policy priorities for a small regional economy in the eurozone; the role of the state in policy making; taxation and regulatory policy; and the challenge of sustainable development. This provides a framework for analysing policy issues at a national level, including the Irish labour market and migration, inequality and poverty, and the care economy. The book then considers issues at a sectoral level, from agriculture and trade to the education and health sectors. Packed with the latest available data, contemporary examples and analysis of topical issues, this is an ideal text for students studying modules on Irish Economics.

The main objective of this book is to offer an overview and a critical assessment of current connectivity issues in Asia and Europe, seen from an industrial perspective. Critical insights into the contemporary debate on connectivity during times of crisis, which has led to significant economic and social disruptions, are offered throughout the book. European and Asian countries seek to "bounce forward" and not "bounce back" as they navigate the complex economic recovery process. Innovation and investment emerge as critical players to help an economic recovery that shifts towards a more resilient and environmentally friendly approach, to ensure that the world economies stay connected. The global health crisis has revealed that, more than ever before, ubiquitous connectivity, underpinned by pioneering innovation, is a must. As such, governments worldwide need to ensure that businesses and societies emerge stronger and more resilient from existing and emerging crises by laying solid foundations that help to circumnavigate future disruptions of a global magnitude.

The public space of democracies is constructed in a context that is marked by the digital transformation of the economy and society. This construction is carried out primarily through deliberation. Deliberation informs and guides both individual and collective action. To shed light on the concept of deliberation, it is important to consider the rationality of choice; but what type of rationality is this? References to economic reason are at once widespread, crucial and controversial. This book therefore deals with arguments used by individuals based on the notions of preferential choice and rational behavior, and also criticizes them. These arguments are examined in the context of the major themes of public debate that help to construct the contemporary public space: "populism", social insurance, social responsibility and environmental issues. Economic Reason and Political Reason underlines the importance of the pragmatist shift of the 2000s and revisits, through the lens of this new approach, the great utilitarian and Rawlsian normative constructs that dominated normative political economics at the end of the 20th century. Alternative approaches, based on the concept of deliberative democracy, are proposed and discussed.

Given the central role of the food and agriculture system in driving so many of the connected ecological, social and economic threats and challenges we currently face, Rethinking Food and Agriculture reviews, reassesses and reimagines the current food and agriculture system and the narrow paradigm in which it operates. Rethinking Food and Agriculture explores and uncovers some of the key historical, ethical, economic, social, cultural, political, and structural drivers and root causes of unsustainability, degradation of the agricultural environment, destruction of nature, short-comings in science and knowledge systems, inequality, hunger and food insecurity, and disharmony. It reviews efforts towards 'sustainable development', and reassesses whether these efforts have been implemented with adequate responsibility, acceptable societal and environmental costs and optimal engagement to secure sustainability, equity and justice. The book highlights the many ways that farmers and their communities, civil society groups, social movements, development experts, scientists and others have been raising awareness of these issues, implementing solutions and forging 'new ways forward', for example towards paradigms of agriculture, natural resource management and human nutrition which are more sustainable and just. Rethinking Food and Agriculture proposes ways to move beyond the current limited view of agro-ecological sustainability towards overall sustainability of the food and agriculture system based on the principle of 'inclusive responsibility'. Inclusive responsibility encourages ecosystem sustainability based on agro-ecological and planetary limits to sustainable resource use for production and livelihoods. Inclusive responsibility also places importance on quality of life, pluralism, equity and justice for all and emphasises the health, well-being, sovereignty, dignity and rights of producers, consumers and other stakeholders, as well as of nonhuman animals and the natural world.

Malgré de multiples efforts, les économies fragiles d'Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) comme celles du Mali, du Tchad, du Niger et de la Guinée se classent toujours parmi les moins diversifiées du monde, avec une part élevée des ressources naturelles dans leur produit intérieur brut ou dans leurs exportations. La production à grande échelle d'or pour le Mali, de pétrole pour le Tchad, d'uranium pour le Niger, et de bauxite pour la Guinée offre des opportunités importantes, mais aussi des défis majeurs pour ces pays. Des évidences concluantes mettent en exergue la mauvaise performance économique des pays fragiles d'ASS riches en ressources naturelles. La raison principale d'un tel constat n'est pas seulement leur grande vulnérabilité aux chocs externes, mais la cupidité ou les griefs qui conduisent généralement à l'accaparation des rentes par des petit groups qui conforment les élites dans des pays sujets aux conflits.Au moment où ces pays ont réaffirmé leur vision pour la diversification de leurs économies, ce livre explore les questions suivantes : Quelles sont les principales contraintes à la diversification des exportations telles que perçues par les principales entreprises exportatrices auditionnées dans ces pays ? Ces pays ont-ils bien fait de cibler certains produits d'exportation ? Les interventions actuelles de ces pays dans les chaînes de valeurs mondiales (CVM) sont-elles adéquates ? Quelles leçons peut-on tirer de cas spécifi ques de réussite/d'échec dans ces pays ? Quelles politiques commerciales et logistiques peuvent favoriser (ou entraver) la croissance tirée par la diversifi cation des exportations dans ces pays ?Le livre jette les bases d'interventions multidimensionnelles plus efficaces pour propulser la diversification des exportations dans les économies fragiles d'ASS entravées non seulement par une gouvernance et des institutions faibles, mais aussi par leur position enclavée (sauf la Guinée), la taille limitée des marchés domestiques, et les politiques défavorables au développement des entreprises. En suivant une approche graduelle, le livre préconise une CVM 2.0, basée sur des politiques de promotion des clusters pour la diversification des exportations. Tout en reconnaissant que plusieurs interventions des projets antérieurs dans ces pays ont eu un succès limité, principalement en raison de leur concentration unidimensionnelle dans des objectifs isolés des chaînes de valeur agricoles, l'approche spatiale CVM 2.0 propose plutôt des efforts multidimensionnelles axés sur des objectifs complémentaires de la part des futurs projets pour attirer des entreprises étrangères sélectionnées et réaliser des investissements publics complémentaires qui favorisent l'agro-industrie. Des exemples pilotes prometteurs de projets de bailleurs de fonds exécutés conjointement, de mécanismes financiers de partage des risques, de grappes agro-industrielles, et d'autres interventions de développeurs de chaînes de valeur sont décrits en détail dans ce livre.