"This book draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries - two low-income (India and Pakistan) and three middle-income (Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines) - where subcontracted production, usually by women and children working out of home, is now widespread. Home-ba…
"The emergence of large-scale urban development and redevelopment projects presents urban managers with tasks of daunting complexity. Such projects involve a huge variety of participants, global and local, public and private. The development process can be lengthy. The developme…
"Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it i…
