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On March 17, 2015, tens of thousands of Mexican farmworkers went on strike in San Quintin, Baja California, to protest horrible working conditions on the farms that produce most of the fresh fruits and vegetables you consume. Calling themselves the "slaves of the twenty-first century," these mostly Indigenous men, women, and children rose up in defiance of the conditions of modern slavery, forced labor, sexual harassment, and "hunger wages." This ethnography provides an in-depth look into how Indigenous farmworkers organize in the fields and their communities to improve wages and working conditions.

Since the strike, the farmworkers have organized a union to fight for justice in the fields. In this work, author James Daria accompanies these farmworkers as they struggle for dignity. Daria also charts the tensions inside the farmworker movement as women struggle to gain greater power in the home as well as at work. In an era of complex global integration, Daria shows us how what we eat is tied to the suffering of those who produce our food.

This book highlights and centers the Indigenous workers who struggle for justice in a global food system that connects us all.

This book analyzes how Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieved rapid economic development through public policies and technological innovation in East Asia. The work examines the fundamental role of the state and industrial strategies in the process of technological catching-up in these economies. Throughout its chapters, the author explores the historical foundations and economic policies of each country under global geopolitical pressures. The book begins with two chapters addressing the economic rise of East Asia and the main heterodox developmental literatures, followed by four chapters discussing these specific experiences (Japanese, Taiwanese, South Korean, and Chinese), and finally, a comparative conclusion. Finally, the analysis focuses on the role of state-owned enterprises, government planning, and technical bureaucracies in sustaining growth. Written in clear and accessible language, this book is essential for researchers, students, and anyone interested in understanding the role of the state and the lessons of Asian development for the contemporary global landscape.

The mixed economies of advanced democracies have undergone a substantial transformation since the 1980s, resulting in a large reduction of government intervention. This book is the first to comprehensively analyze this development.

Comparing five policy instruments - corporate taxation, total public expenditure, product market regulation, industrial subsidies, state-ownership of enterprises, and an aggregate index - in 21 countries, the book examines how far the liberalization of mixed economies in established democracies has gone, and what caused it. It finds that globalization and the diffusion of policies were most relevant for the transformation of economic intervention, whilst European integration and socio-economic changes played less important roles. Despite the overall trend toward liberalization, domestic politics in the form of partisan control of the government also remains important.

The book is of interest to scholars and students of comparative and international political economy, comparative public policy, and comparative politics, as well as economists and journalists who want to better understand the politics of economic liberalization over the last four decades.

This book explores the untapped potential of securitisation to support sustainability goals. While environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integrated into securitisation structures, the market remains far less developed than other sustainable finance instruments like green bonds and loans.

In the absence of a dedicated framework, market participants have independently labeled these transactions as 'sustainable', raising concerns about legal certainty and greenwashing risks.

Against this background, the book examines how securitisation can meaningfully contribute to the sustainability agenda. It maps the features that can make securitisations sustainable and provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rules governing these transactions. Central to this is the concept of 'focal points': strategic elements that can serve as leverage for legal interventions promoting sustainability. By situating securitisation within the broader sustainable finance debate, the book argues for a more coherent legal framework, shaped by financial industry bodies and EU regulators.

This is the first book to resolve the profound paradox between Schumpeterian innovation and ecological limits by proposing a complete, synthetic economic framework. It moves beyond the established debate between green growth and degrowth by introducing Post-Schumpeterian Economics (PSE), a novel approach designed to strategically re-direct the engine of creative destruction toward achieving long-term sustainability. The research and its outcomes presented here offer a unique integration of the dynamism of Schumpeter with the ecological foundations of Georgescu-Roegen, providing a new lens for understanding twenty-first-century challenges.

A major objective of this monograph is to validate this theoretical framework with rigorous, large-scale empirical analysis. The book presents an unprecedented data-driven typology of the diverse transition pathways being pursued across the G-20, G-7, and BRICS nations. Drawing on a comprehensive dataset and employing extensive cluster analysis, it reveals that there is no singular global transformation, but rather multiple, distinct archetypes. This comparative analysis-contrasting the innovation-led, high-risk approaches of the United States and China with the more balanced, policy-driven strategies in Europe-provides an invaluable map of the current geopolitical landscape of decarbonization.

By bridging this new theoretical model with robust empirical evidence, this work provides scholars, students, and policymakers with an actionable perspective on one of the most urgent and complex challenges of our time. It identifies strategic levers for transformation, including market-based mechanisms and state-led technology policies, offering a powerful tool for designing effective pathways to a sustainable future.

The BRICS grouping - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - jointly founded the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement as part of their efforts to constitute a trade, monetary, and geopolitical bloc. Yet the inability to deal collectively with external pressures, intra-group tensions, and ideological divergences has hampered efforts to establish a coherent and articulated strategy. Nevertheless, given their centrality to the production, circulation, and consumption of agricultural commodities and food products; their abundant reserves of labour and natural resources, and the scale of their domestic markets, the development trajectories of the BRICS countries remain crucial to understanding the future not only of the global agrifood system but also of capitalism itself.

Engaging with recent debates in comparative capitalism and food regime approaches, this book provides a comparative institutional analysis of the BRICS 'varieties of capitalism' and their role in the international reordering of the contemporary 'food regime'. It is argued that the historically embedded legacy of the agrarian question in the institutional configurations and class relations of each country can help to explain the institutional diversity of capitalism. Conversely, to the extent that the dynamics of the agrifood system have a decisive influence on their overall development trajectories, the BRICS-driven shifts in the food regime have much to reveal about the new period of global capitalism that will follow the eventual demise of the neoliberal era.

Opening an original and innovative agenda of empirical and theoretical research, the book will appeal to an international readership interested in agrarian political economy, economic sociology, rural and agrifood studies, and the future of the global economy.

This book evaluates the deepening accord the EU and Japan hold in the Indo-Pacific region in terms of security, economy, and values.

Focusing on the contemporary period after Japan and the EU signed Strategic and Economic Partnership Agreements in 2018, the book analyses both general outlooks and world visions of the two, and the practical programmes and initiatives in the Indo-Pacific through which these are achieved. By exploring both actors' perception of the Indo-Pacific in historical, intellectual, and political contexts, and their contemporary political interests within security, environmental, and economic dimensions, the book demonstrates how closely the duo's roles in the region are connected.

Revealing the changing contours of the EU-Japan partnership in the Indo-Pacific, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of geopolitics, economic geography, and international relations, particularly of Japan, the EU, and the Indo-Pacific.

Since 2014, China has developed what is now the world's largest public-private partnerships (PPPs) market. This book provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded exploration of China's experience with PPPs.

Based on a detailed project-level dataset collected between 2014 and 2023, the author examines China's PPP governance from multiple perspectives. The analysis covers policy evolution, institutional experimentation, and regional diffusion patterns. It also investigates the fiscal incentives shaping local government behavior and the institutional constraints embedded in existing regulatory arrangements. The empirical chapters assess the extent to which spatial diffusion theory, transaction cost theory, capital structure theory, and cutback management theory explain the dynamics observed in practice, while also offering a timely assessment of recent PPP reforms in China.

This book will be of interest to scholars seeking to understand the evolution of PPP governance, as well as policymakers and practitioners looking for evidence-based insights.

This book presents a detailed analysis of the potential of the circular economy (CE) to revolutionize solid waste management (SWM) in developing economies. It bridges the gap between theory and practice by offering real-world, actionable insights and examples to support the development of sustainable and resilient SWM systems. The book focuses on developing economies across several regions, including (but not limited to) Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa, and includes relevant case studies.

Key features:

• Detailed coverage of the solid waste value chain
• Strong emphasis on practical circular economy practices
• Review of measures for implementing practical strategies
• Focus on perspectives from developing economies
• Use of case studies to demonstrate circular economy practices in developing contexts

This book is intended for students, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders in the field of environmental engineering.

The Indian banking sector has undergone a profound transformation in the wake of successive economic disruptions - the global financial crisis of 2007-09, the local banking crisis of 2013-17, the currency notes ban crisis of 2016-17, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Each episode has exposed latent vulnerabilities in the financial system: inefficiencies in intermediation, the build-up of credit risk, and structural imbalances in competition.

This book offers the comprehensive empirical assessment of how the Indian banking industry has evolved in the post-crash era, using bank-level data from 2001 to 2022. Bringing together advanced econometric and frontier methodologies, including a two-stage network DEA metafrontier framework, the Panzar-Rosse approach with dynamic panel estimation, and system GMM techniques, the authors' examine three core dimensions of banking performance. The book analyses how successive crises have shaped operational efficiency, competitive conduct, and asset quality across bank ownership categories; evaluate the effectiveness of regulatory reforms including Basel III implementation, the Prompt Corrective Action framework, mergers and recapitalisation of public-sector banks, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and the integration of FinTech innovations; and the drivers of credit risk.

Post-Crash Development in the Indian Banking Sector will be a valuable reference for those studying comparative banking in emerging-market economies and looking to reform their banking sector.

The Routledge Handbook of Contract Farming and Development assesses the main conceptual, methodological and theoretical debates surrounding contract farming, and its implications for rural development in the Global South.

Contract farming has rapidly expanded in the Global South in the wake of structural adjustment, providing an intermediate form of agricultural organization between open procurement and fully integrated plantation agriculture. However, it is also a focus of contestation, with some viewing it as a "win-win" solution to the struggles of smallholders in the Global South, and others viewing it through the lens of peasant exploitation. This book combines conceptual and methodological contributions with rich empirical case studies, encouraging a holistic understanding of contract farming by transcending disciplinary silos. Overall, the book equips readers with a rich understanding of key themes, policies, business models, actors and social dynamics surrounding contract farming. It considers local and regional variations and contexts, and the broader implications of contract farming for agrarian change globally.

The book's comprehensive coverage of contract farming will be of interest to researchers across the fields of agricultural economics, development studies, rural sociology and agrarian political economy. Its insights will also be instructive for policy makers and development practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview.

A comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of this region, incorporating the latest economic and political developments.

General Survey

Essays by acknowledged experts in the region cover a variety of topical issues.

In addition, appendices discuss the religions of the region and the Russian Baltic territory of Kaliningrad.

Country Surveys

Individual chapters for each country, containing:

- information on physical and social geography

- a detailed chronology of political events, both recent and historical

- essays on each country's political history and economy

- a statistical survey

- an extensive directory of contact details for political, state and commercial institutions and organizations in the region (covering national and local government, political organizations, diplomatic representation, the judicial system, religion, the media, finance, telecommunications and broadcasting, major companies, transport, tourism, culture, social welfare, the environment, defence, education and more)

- and a select bibliography.

Who's Who in Central and South-Eastern Europe

Biographical details for nearly 200 leading political figures.

Regional Information

Contact information and extensive details of the activities of regional and international organizations active in the region; a list of research institutes that focus on the region, together with contact details; and select bibliographies of both books and periodicals.

The Great Disconnect: The Paradox of India's Economic Growth and Employment Crisis, examines the paradox of India's remarkable economic growth alongside persistent employment challenges, revealing the complex dynamics of what the author terms "the great disconnect" between development and suitable work opportunities.

Drawing on extensive research and policy experience, Professor K.P. Kannan explores how India's economic reforms have created a troubling divergence between GDP growth and quality employment generation. The book provides critical insights into jobless growth patterns, the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers, persistent wage inequalities, and the marginalisation of women and less-educated workers in rural areas. Through detailed analysis of employment elasticity, informal sector dynamics, and social security gaps, Kannan demonstrates how the majority of India's workforce remains trapped in precarious employment without basic protections. The study extends beyond national boundaries to examine similar challenges across the Global South, particularly within BRICS countries, whilst proposing strategies for organising informal workers and achieving inclusive development.

This authoritative work will be essential reading for development economists, labour specialists, policy makers, and researchers examining employment challenges in emerging economies in the Global South. It provides valuable insights for international development agencies, government officials, labour organisations, and academics studying the intersection of economic growth and social development in contemporary India and the broader developing world.

This book explores the deep impact of AI and digital transformation on finance, its practices and decision intelligence processes. The book and its practical, analytical chapters present further insights regarding ways to effectively utilize AI, potentially even beyond the existing theoretical and practical knowledge. Regulatory, ethical, security, and moral challenges and concerns associated with the use of AI in finance are thoroughly analyzed.

Readers will take away a conceptual and practical understanding of AI and digitalization as well as real-world practical case studies, so that they can be applied appropriately in a workplace setting. It aims to differentiate itself by focusing more specifically on the practical realities of AI and digital transformation in decision-making processes within finance, offering actionable guidance and real-world case study or implications, which are less emphasized in most other competitors.

The book is appropriate for experts and professionals interested in deployment of AI, digitalization and their implementation in finance. No doubt, academics, professionals, students, and finance experts will find this book an informative practice resource. The book would suit anyone interested in AI and its broader applications in finance or its uses in decision-making processes.

At both ends of the wealth spectrum, the laws governing credit and debt hardwire patterns of both privilege and poverty. They drive financial extraction by creating a flow of assets from the pockets of low-income families into the bank accounts of high-wealth ones. In short, some families are legally enabled as they accumulate and preserve great fortunes that get passed down through generations-while others are locked into a cycle of scraping by, just hoping to find affordable housing and put food on the table.

This book traces the joint forces of law, geography, and narrative that have built this superstructure of inequality and extraction: "the house of family money." Allison Anna Tait reveals how this monumental piece of economic architecture can be deciphered by the blueprints that guided its construction, navigated by maps that reveal its hidden shortcuts, and ultimately renovated by lasting reforms.

Black Women in the U.S. Economy: The Hardest Working Woman explores the impact of economic, structural, and policy changes since the 1970s on the status and well-being of Black women in the U.S. It examines the rise in income and wealth inequality and subsequent economic downturns on Black women and their families given the changing relationship between the state, markets, and families over this period of time.

The book assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars who use Black Feminist frameworks along with applied microeconomics and econometrics to understand the multiple identities, roles, and experiences of Black women in the U.S. economy. The Hardest Working Woman is divided into three sections: 1) Black Women in the Market Economy, 2) Family and Community, and 3) Politics, Public Policy and Its Effects. The chapters are designed to stand alone or complement each other, offering a broad overview of Black women's work. The aim of this book is to challenge the popular rhetoric about Black women's work experiences, economic status, and role in providing for and sustaining their families and communities.

This important and illuminating study will be essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Black women's experiences within the political economy, as well as all those with an interest in Economics, Women's Studies, Africana Studies, Sociology, Political Science and Public Policy.

This book examines economic integration and peace prospects in Central and South Asia with focus on UTTAPI countries-Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. It analyzes trade impact on national economies, transportation corridors, and regional development patterns. It addresses India's strategic role through TAPI pipeline and military cooperation initiatives, and also:

• Examines economic integration among UTTAPI countries (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India).

• Addresses India's strategic role in Central and South Asian integration through initiatives including TAPI gas pipeline, DUSTLIK military exercises, and infrastructure development.

• Analyzes Afghanistan's stability as critical factor for regional security and economic connectivity.

• Examines India-Pakistan relations with focus on trade and economic collaboration potential for addressing common challenges.

• Covers transportation and transit corridor development among UTTAPI countries.

This title has been co-published with Knowledge World Publishers. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri lanka.

This book highlights the potential of AI to transform Africa's food systems that are in crisis and make them serve as the regional basis for socio-economic development.

Underpinned by sustainability, sociological, and political economy approaches, this multidisciplinary book shows that AI integration can help respond to the diverse bottlenecks within regional food systems, including limited access to financing and technology, high post-harvest losses, and, in some regions, conflict. The book comprises the voices of different scholars on how AI can be harnessed to transform food systems towards a sustainable direction. It also comprises conceptual, theoretical, and empirical contributions that provide foundational insights into the underpinnings of AI in African food systems, their challenges and opportunities for development, resilience, recovery following shocks, and prospects for sustainable transformation using AI-driven solutions.

The book is written for academic and policy readers, as well as those interested in food security. It also offers valuable insights for courses on food politics, food systems, agroecology, and sustainable development.

This book explores IoT-based ecosystems and AI-driven automation in agriculture to provide solutions for intelligent farming systems and precision agriculture techniques. It provides a comprehensive view of emerging technologies' integration and the resultant impact on the farming ecosystem. Real-world case studies and examples
of IoT and AI applications in agriculture are included to show how IoT and AI have revolutionized conventional agriculture. The book also examines the potential and difficulties of deploying IoT and AI in the agricultural business with case studies.

Features:
* Demonstrates how technologies like precision agriculture, smart sensors, and automated systems can be utilized to boost production, reduce waste,and increase sustainability by optimizing resource usage and reducing
environmental impact.
* Explains how small sensors, intelligence drones, or low-power Internet of Things setups for detecting, monitoring, gathering, analyzing, and storing data through cloud platforms are encouraging smart and intelligent agriculture.
* Highlights IoT and AI intervention options for effective assessment of musculoskeletal, ergonomic, and postural analyses.
* Explains usage of AI and IoT in precision farming, agricultural drones and hopping systems, livestock monitoring, temperature monitoring, smart greenhouses, and computer imaging.
* Discusses challenges like data security, rural connectivity issues, infrastructure limitations, and the digital divide in rural areas.

The book is a helpful reference for professionals, scholars, and students interested in digital farming and sustainable agricultural practices. It acts as a guiding tool for practitioners, researchers, educators, and policymakers, encouraging discussions, innovations, and advancements that will shape a sustainable, efficient, and resilient future for agriculture.

Outlines the case for tackling inequality in Britain and offers a road-map to a fairer society.

Britain is a grossly unfair country, disfigured by a broken social contract and unsustainable levels of inequality. This moral outrage presents a growing threat to our society, economy and democracy.

The Fair Necessities argues that unfair inequality undermines everything from faith in government to economic growth, yet a fairer country is within reach. Drawing on cutting-edge research and interviews with public figures, including including Vince Cable, Polly Toynbee and Liam Byrne, it sets out the moral, political and policy cases for tackling inequality and explains how to build a broad, cross-party consensus for a fairer society. Engaging, evidence-rich and ultimately hopeful, it offers the vision - and the practical roadmap - needed to rebuild Britain on fairer foundations.

This book examines the shifting dynamics of global trade governance in an era of uncertainty. Michael Sampson introduces a new framework to explain why rising powers like China have favoured flexible, low-detail agreements, while relatively declining powers such as Japan seek comprehensive deals to preserve influence.

Drawing on original analysis of trade arrangements, the book highlights how these competing strategies fuel conflict over institutions like the World Trade Organization and shape the future of international cooperation. The insights drawn are vital for scholars and policy makers navigating today's fractured trade landscape.

This book examines management meaning, nature and theories addressing classical, neo-classical and modern approaches with emphasis on evolution of management thought and relevance to agricultural extension. It covers administration, supervision and functions of management including POSDCORB framework, extension management in public, private and pluralistic sectors and also:

• Examines management meaning, nature and theories including classical, neo-classical and modern approaches with emphasis on evolution of management thought
• Covers administration, supervision and functions of management addressing POSDCORB framework, approaches to management, levels of management, and qualities, skills and competencies of effective manager in extension organizations
• Addresses extension management in public, private and pluralistic sectors
• Discusses decision-making and human resource management in extension covering types of decisions, styles and techniques, manpower planning, recruitment, selection, training and development
• Examines leadership, authority, coordination and performance in extension addressing leadership styles, delegation, decentralization, line and staff relations

This title has been co-published with Elite Publishing House. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in India.

Throughout the history of football, new leagues have periodically emerged offering high salaries to lure foreign stars - the United States, Japan, and China being prominent examples. Less well known, however, is the case of Colombia. The Colombian professional football league was a brief but remarkable experiment that attracted top South American and European players in the early 1950s, commonly referred to as El Dorado.

Drawing on a wide array of archival material and other primary sources, this book explores how a small, economically underdeveloped country with no established football tradition managed to finance such a high-profile "pirate" league while confronting the international football establishment. It examines the economic and social conditions that made it possible to field world-class players such as Alfredo Di Stefano and Charlie Mitten, and explicitly addresses the domestic and international circumstances that allowed so powerful a league to emerge so far from football's traditional centers of power.

This book also traces the collapse of the league and its lasting ramifications for the history of football in the region. It will be of great interest to readers in sports economics, sports history, economic history, and Latin American studies.

This book revisits the concept of the transit catchment area (TCA) and examines evolving practices in TCA planning against the backdrop of expanding big and open data (BOD) in transit-oriented land use planning.

In many developed countries and regions, car dependence and urban sprawl have led to undesirable outcomes. Improved transit and land use planning can help create well-connected areas where people, businesses, and employers want to be. But how can we make these transit zones more appealing? BOD is transforming how we understand and address this challenge. Drawing on empirical data and case studies, this book shows how TCAs can be defined across two dimensions-feature (form) and performance (function)-and how BOD, combined with traditional sources, can be used to characterize these dimensions while revealing their complex interrelationships. The author employs a mixed-method approach that includes desktop research, survey data, and quantitative analysis with visualization. Readers will learn how to redefine TCAs and enhance planning practices by leveraging BOD sources such as smartcard data, OpenStreetMap, and social media-making transit areas more attractive while addressing car dependence, urban sprawl, and related challenges such as congestion, pollution, and declining social capital.

Big and Open Data for Transit Planning will be useful for planners, officials, students, and academics who are interested in the nexus of transit/transportation, land use, and sustainable development.