Routledge Library Editions: Development
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science.
Circulation in Third World Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By R Mansell Prothero, Murray Chapman
February 28, 2013
Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas. The essays in this volume, first published in1985, discuss concepts associated with circulation in its various forms, and they present empirical evidence based on field work from holistic, ...
Corruption in Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Ronald Wraith, Edgar Simpkins
February 28, 2013
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...
Development Policy in Small Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Percy Selwyn
February 28, 2013
First published in 1975, the main emphasis of this reissued collection is on the various aspects of dependence to which small countries as such are subject, and the policy options in the political and economic field which are open to them....
Development and the Environmental Crisis: Red or Green Alternatives
1st Edition
By Michael Redclift
February 28, 2013
First published in 1984, Michael Redclift’s book makes the global environmental crisis a central concern of political economy and its structural causes a central concern of environmentalism. Michael Redclift argues that a close analysis of the environmental crisis in the South reveals the ...
Does Aid Work in India?: A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance
1st Edition
By Michael Lipton, John Toye
February 28, 2013
Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have emerged.....
Economic Development in East Asia
1st Edition
By E. Stuart Kirby
February 28, 2013
First published in 1967, this influential study reviews the economic development of 15 countries from East Asia in the period between 1945 and 1965. It deals with a wide variety of factors influencing the development of the region, including the influence of foreign governments (both international ...
Economic Development in the Tropics
1st Edition
By B. W. Hodder
February 28, 2013
First published in 1968, the central aim of this work is to examine the major problems of development confronting contemporary tropical countries. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines the significance of natural and human resources in development planning in tropical countries;...
Economic Integration in Africa
1st Edition
By Peter Robson
February 28, 2013
First published in 1968, this reissue is a study of contemporary international economic policy, with particular emphasis upon economic integration as a means of bringing about a faster rate of economic progress and of helping to overcome poverty. Peter Robson’s book is a study of the rationale of ...
Education and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger M. Garrett
February 28, 2013
First published in 1984, this collection represents the combined contributions to an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 1983. In assessing the complex relationship between education and development, it covers a wide range of countries in its appraisal and presents ...
Education and development in Latin America
1st Edition
By Laurence Gale
February 28, 2013
First published in 1969, this volume presents a survey of the contemporary national education system in Latin American countries. Laurence Gale describes the uneven provision of schools for different sections of the community and the problems which arise with the racial, cultural and geographical ...
Export Instability and Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Alasdair Macbean
February 28, 2013
When this work was first published in 1966, there was much interest in various types of commodity agreements and compensatory financing as methods of reducing the effects of export fluctuations on the economies of developing countries. The book concluded that short term fluctuations in export ...
Export-Oriented Industrialisation: The ASEAN Experience
1st Edition
By Mohammed Ariff, Hal Hill
February 28, 2013
First published in 1985, this study is a comparative examination of industrialisation and industrial policy from the early 1960s to the early 1980s in the five original member countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN): namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore ...