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.
An Introduction to the Politics of Tropical Africa
1st Edition
By Richard Hodder-Williams
February 13, 2013
This wide-ranging and informative introduction to politics in tropical Africa, first published in 1984, is essential reading to students, businessmen, government officials and economic advisers alike. Situating the contemporary scene firmly in its historical context, which stresses both ...
Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States
1st Edition
By Leslie Sklair
February 13, 2013
First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish "maquila" factories that assemble US parts for ...
Black Africa 1945-1980: Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development
1st Edition
By D K Fieldhouse
February 13, 2013
In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid and sustained economic development in Africa for the most part disappointed? This title, originally ...
Industrial Structure and Policy in Less Developed Countries
1st Edition
By Colin Kirkpatrick, N. Lee, Frederick Nixson
February 13, 2013
First published in 1984, this textbook analyses, at both aggregate and micro economic levels, the contemporary industrial conditions in Third World countries and relates this to the process of economic growth and structural transformation. Drawing upon both industrial and development economics, ...
Integration, development and equity: economic integration in West Africa
1st Edition
By Peter Robson
February 13, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1983, is an authoritative study of economic integration among the states of West Africa, focusing upon the issues and experience of the four main initiatives for regional integration in West Africa, namely the Economic Community of West African States, the Mano ...
Interdependent Development
1st Edition
By Harold Brookfield
February 13, 2013
Rather than being a book about ‘development’ per se, this work, first published in 1975, is instead a book about ideas about development, designed for those drawn by a concern over social injustice into the development field. In a selective review of theory, which gives particular emphasis to the...
International Finance and Latin America
1st Edition
By Stephany Griffith-Jones
February 13, 2013
This reissue, initially published in 1984, examines the evolution of international financial flows to Latin America since 1945, along with their implications for National Development . The book describes how, in each of the first three decades since the war, a new agency emerged (foreign investors ...
International Indebtedness and the Developing Countries
1st Edition
By George Abbott
January 19, 2011
First published in 1979, this study focuses upon two of the major economic problems faced by developing countries: massive foreign debts and the shortage of foreign funds offered on concessional terms for development purposes. The relationship between the two is highlighted in the effect that debt ...