A new volume in the Routledge International Handbooks series analysing emerging and newly emerged economies, including the BRIC countries and other candidates for emerging economy status, offering an overview of issues in development economics. 'This volume will become the indispensable reference on emerging markets.' - Moisés Na?m, author of End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, why being in charge is no longer what it used to be. 'This is another jewel in the editor's and the publisher's literary crowns.' - Jahangir Amuzegar, former minister of Commerce and Minister of Finance, Iran, and a former executive director of the International Monetary Fund. 'One-stop shopping for policy experts and international business professionals, not to mention the merely curious.' - Peter Passell, former economics columnist for the New York Times and editor of the Milken Institute Review. 'The BRIC economies are the first big story of the 21st century. Here Robert Looney has assembled the essential handbook, and a remarkable collection of authors, to tell their tale.' - Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. 'This volume is destined to become an instant classic ? a dream team of contributors.' - Hossein Askari, Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs, George Washington University. 'A valuable contribution.' - Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University.