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.
Membership Based Organizations of the Poor
1st Edition
By Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Carol Richards
November 08, 2013
This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and ...
Monetary and Financial Integration in West Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Temitope Oshikoya
November 08, 2013
Monetary and Financial Integration in West Africa details the progress, challenges faced, and potential of the project intended to create a West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) between Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Given the trend towards regionalization of economic ties across the ...
Reform and Development in China: What Can China Offer the Developing World
1st Edition
Edited
By Yang L. Yao, Ho-Mou Wu
November 08, 2013
Between 1978 and 2006, GDP growth in China maintained an annual average rate of 9.7%, meaning the Chinese economy increased by more than twelve times. This was achieved with quite unorthodox approaches to reform and development as China has adopted a gradualist approach to adopting key institutions...
South-South Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Development
1st Edition
Edited
By S. Mansoob Murshed, Pedro Goulart, Leandro Serino
November 08, 2013
Two prominent features of the current global economy are the world-wide recession brought about by the recent financial crisis, and the emergence of major economic powers from within the developing world such as Brazil, China and India. The former represents the failure of global regulatory ...
Taxation in a Low-Income Economy: The case of Mozambique
1st Edition
Edited
By Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp
November 08, 2013
This volume contains a stimulating collection of analytical studies focusing on taxation in Mozambique. It tells a compelling story about tax systems in a low income economy increasingly integrated into the world trading system, but very much dependent on foreign trade taxes and international ...
The Impact of International Debt Relief
1st Edition
By A. Geske Dijkstra
November 08, 2013
International debt relief continues to be a highly controversial subject. Although many heavily indebted poor countries have received large amounts of debt relief over the past quarter of a century, it doesn’t appear to be enough. This book examines the impact of international debt relief ...
Towards New Developmentalism: Market as Means rather than Master
1st Edition
Edited
By Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Jens Christiansen
November 08, 2013
The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism. Although neo-liberalism has been critiqued from various perspectives, these critiques have not coalesced into a concrete alternative in development economics literature. The ...
The Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger: An Essay on the Complementarity between Market- and Government-Led Land Reform for its Resolution
1st Edition
By M. Riad El-Ghonemy
September 11, 2013
M. Riad El-Ghonemy argues that if current trends in government-led and market based land reforms persist the rural poor population in developing countries will continue to rise. Based on nearly half a century of academic and field research this valuable work presents compelling evidence on ...
The Private Sector after Communism: New Entrepreneurial Firms in Transition Economies
1st Edition
By Vladimir Banacek, Mihaly Laki, Jan Winiecki
August 28, 2013
The transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process, though sometimes not given the attention it deserves and requires, is the establishment and expansion of new private firms.This book analyzes new ...
Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States
1st Edition
By Tim Lindsey
October 19, 2012
Law reform in developing countries has become an increasingly topical subject in recent years. A critical issue is why so many law reform projects in developing economies are regarded by their sponsors and recipients as unsuccessful. This informative book: examines examples of law ...
Overcoming Inequality in Latin America: Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Ricardo Gottschalk, Patricia Justino
October 19, 2012
Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015. Historically, this region has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty, the causes and consequences of which are analytically examined here. ...
The Chronically Poor in Rural Bangladesh: Livelihood Constraints and Capabilities
1st Edition
By Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman, Noriatsu Matsui, Yukio Ikemoto
October 10, 2012
This book examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households in Bangladesh, it provides an accurate portrait of the everyday situations faced by the rural poor in Bangladesh today, covering all aspects of household behaviour. All of the key issues ...