Routledge Studies in Development Economics
About the Book Series
The last decade has seen dramatic changes in the economic position of developing countries. A minority of middle-income countries, especially in Asia, have fared relatively well. This has led some economists and policy makers to argue that other developing countries need to adopt the same policies of export led growth. However the results of this have been disappointing and many of the world's poorest countries have seen their positions decline in both relative and absolute terms. This series presents accounts of the present position of, and future prospects for, the developing countries.
The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty: Pressing Need, Manageable Cost, Practical Possibilities, Favourable Spillovers
1st Edition
By Anthony Clunies-Ross, Mozammel Huq
December 08, 2016
The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a ...
Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development: Contrasting Theories and Realities
1st Edition
Edited
By A.H.J. Helmsing, Sietze Vellema
December 08, 2016
Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive ...
Trade Infrastructure and Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By David Olusanya Ajakaiye, T. Ademola Oyejide
December 05, 2016
There is growing consensus in the literature that trade and trade policy matter for a pro-poor growth and development strategy. Therefore, policies that are consistent with this strategy feature increasingly in many African countries where poverty is endemic and rapid and where sustainable economic...
Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Keijiro Otsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada
November 18, 2016
Although there is much interest in poverty reduction, there are few agreed upon strategies to effectively reduce poverty. In this new book, the editors have gathered together various evidences on poverty dynamics, based on panel data from the last few decades in the Philippines, Thailand, ...
Financial Cooperatives and Local Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvio Goglio, Yiorgos Alexopoulos
November 10, 2016
This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and ...
Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Stein, Amal Fadlalla
November 08, 2016
The concept of security has often narrowly focused on issues surrounding the protection of national borders from outside threats. However, a richer idea of human security has become increasingly important in the past decade or so. The aim is to incorporate various dimensions of the downside risks ...
Essays on Balance of Payments Constrained Growth: Theory and Evidence
1st Edition
Edited
By John McCombie, Tony Thirlwall
December 17, 2015
There are many theories concerning the relationship between the pace of development and economic growth in different countries. This impressive collection explores the relationship between a country's balance of payments and their rate of economic growth. The evidence and ramifications within the ...
The Macroeconomics of Monetary Union: An Analysis of the CFA Franc Zone
1st Edition
By David Fielding
September 08, 2015
This book applies contemporary macroeconomic theory and econometric modelling techniques in order to address policy issues relating to the CFA Franc Zone, a group of francophone African Countries sharing a common currency that is linked to the French Franc / Euro. Within this methodological ...
The Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries: Local versus Global Logic
1st Edition
Edited
By Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, Ali Taleb
July 29, 2015
A key distinctive feature of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) as organizations resides in the fact that they span across borders. This exposes them to dissimilar and often unfamiliar social and economic conditions as they venture in foreign countries. MNEs from industrialized economies that are ...
Anti-Poverty Land Reform Issues Never Die: Collected essays on development economics in practice
1st Edition
By M. Riad El-Ghonemy
March 31, 2015
What can we do to unlock the unrealised potential of the hundreds of millions of rural poor and landless workers? The ever-topical central theme in this collection of essays is the mixed role of government and the institutionally regulated market in tackling rural poverty and land distribution...
Digital Interactions in Developing Countries: An Economic Perspective
1st Edition
By Jeffrey James
February 27, 2015
Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, ...
Disasters and the Networked Economy
1st Edition
By J.M. Albala-Bertrand
February 27, 2015
Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of Large...