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.
Market Liberalism, Growth, and Economic Development in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerardo Angeles Castro, Ignacio Perrotini-Hernández, Humberto Ríos-Bolivar
June 19, 2014
The principal themes pursued in this book emerge from the great transformation that the Latin American and the Caribbean economies experienced in the aftermath of both the foreign debt crisis of 1982 and the macroeconomic stabilisation policies that vividly and painfully produced the so-called "...
Microcredit and International Development: Contexts, Achievements and Challenges
1st Edition
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By Farhad Hossain, Christopher Rees, Tonya Knight-Millar
June 19, 2014
This book draws together a set of topical writings on the subject of microcredit that will be of relevance to the work of both researchers and practitioners in the field. In drawing on the experiences of authors from countries and regions throughout the globe, including Cambodia, Barbados and the ...
Assessing Prospective Trade Policy: Methods Applied to EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements
1st Edition
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By Oliver Morrissey
February 14, 2014
The European Union (EU) has provided trade preferences to the former colonies of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions since 1975 but these preferences have been of limited value and found to be incompatible with WTO rules. To continue preferences, economic partnership agreements (EPAs) ...
Trade Relations Between the EU and Africa: Development, challenges and options beyond the Cotonou Agreement
1st Edition
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By Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu, Francis A.S.T. Matambalya
February 14, 2014
Trade liberalisation and openness, as linchpins for development have been flagships of conventional economic policy advices to most African countries over the last few decades. Much of the orientation of the focus however has been on the impact of international trade on development rather than the ...
Achieving Economic Development in the Era of Globalization
1st Edition
By Shalendra D. Sharma
November 08, 2013
Challenging assumptions about the benefits of specific development practices, this book provides readers with overview of how competing frameworks have developed and the ways that specific development practices reflect specific understandings of the main debates, as well as offering a comprehensive...
Culture, Institutions, and Development: New Insights Into an Old Debate
1st Edition
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By Jean-Philippe Platteau, Robert Peccoud
November 08, 2013
Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and ...
Development Macroeconomics: Essays in Memory of Anita Ghatak
1st Edition
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By Subrata Ghatak, Paul Levine
November 08, 2013
This brings together relevant papers on macro-, monetary and development economics from many eminent economists from all over the world who are closely associated with the works of Late Professor Anita Ghatak of Greenwich University, UK who was an expert in the field of macroeconomics and ...
Economic Transitions to Neoliberalism in Middle-Income Countries: Policy Dilemmas, Economic Crises, Forms of Resistance
1st Edition
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By Alfredo Saad-Filho, Galip L. Yalman
November 08, 2013
Neoliberalism is based on the systematic use of state power to impose, under the veil of ‘non-intervention’, a hegemonic project of recomposition of capitalist rule in most areas of social life. The tensions and displacements embedded within global neoliberalism are nowhere more evident than in the...
Energy, Bio Fuels and Development: Comparing Brazil and the United States
1st Edition
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By Edmund Amann, Werner Baer, Don Coes
November 08, 2013
This collection examines the important and topical issue of the economic, social and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. The book expertly examines this issue by focussing on the contrasting experiences of two major economies; one ...
Europe's Troubled Region: Economic Development, Institutional Reform, and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans
1st Edition
By William Bartlett
November 08, 2013
The countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the province of Kosovo - form a core European region. The region is known for its instability and recent history of wars and civil conflicts, but far less is known about the changes ...
Labor Markets and Economic Development
1st Edition
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By Ravi Kanbur, Jan Svejnar
November 08, 2013
As developing and transition economies enter the next phase of reforms, labor market issues increasingly come to the fore. With the increased competition from globalization, the discussion is shifting to the need for greater labor market flexibility and the creation of "good" jobs. Moreover, the ...
Latecomer Development: Innovation and knowledge for economic growth
1st Edition
By Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Padmashree Gehl Sampath
November 08, 2013
The most important issue for development centres on the debate about the centrality of knowledge, technology and innovation to the process of economic development. While this much is broadly agreed, what is at issue is the precise mechanics of overcoming economic development challenges in different...