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.
Information Technology and Development: A New Paradigm for Delivering the Internet to Rural Areas in Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Jeffrey James
September 02, 2004
Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often ...
The Pattern of Aid Giving: The Impact of Good Governance on Development Assistance
1st Edition
By Eric Neumayer
July 28, 2003
Practically all donor countries that give aid claim to do so on the basis on the recipient's good governance, but do these claims have a real impact on the allocation of aid? Are democratic, human rights-respecting, countries with low levels of corruption and military expenditures actually likely ...
New International Poverty Reduction Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Pierre Cling, Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud
June 25, 2003
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development policies. This book provides the expert, critical analysis of the poverty reduction strategies that ...
Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Kishor Sharma
May 30, 2003
Asia constitutes a large portion of the world's population and this new book provides a good selection of contributions that cover trade, equity and development in the continent. With contributions from such leading experts as Clem Tisdell, T.N. Srinivasan and Gustav Ranis, the book's chapters ...
Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas, Jonathan Pincus
May 16, 2003
This excellent book, newly available in paperback, addresses the growing dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal post-Washington consensus. The concern of the contributors in writing this collection was that this consensus has established itself as a new orthodoxy, more powerful and widespread than ...
Competitiveness Strategy in Developing Countries: A Manual for Policy Analysis
1st Edition
By Ganeshan Wignaraja
January 17, 2003
Globalization and structural adjustment offer many opportunities for export orientated industrialization in developing economies. As a group, competitiveness in the developing countries has improved, but, while East Asian economies have had rapid export growth and technological upgrades, South ...
Programme Aid and Development: Beyond Conditionality
1st Edition
By Geske Dijkstra, Howard White
December 27, 2002
This important contribution to the literature on development economics analyses the effectiveness of programme aid - i.e. aid that is not given in the form of projects. Using real world examples from countries such as Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam this book deals with one of the core issues in ...
Labour Relations in Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex Fernández Jilberto, Marieke Riethof
October 18, 2002
This timely and well-written collection explores the impact of economic reforms in developing and transitional economies across the world. In a first of its kind, this book examines such issues as:* in-depth, cross-regional analysis of the pressures for global integration* labour costs and their ...
Globalization, Marginalization and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Mansoob Murshed
October 11, 2002
This excellent new book contains contributions from a number of leading experts and is the result of the UNU/WIDER project on globalization and low-income countries. The discussion focuses in on how to harness globalization for the benefit of present day marginalized countries and enhance their ...
Endogenous Development: Networking, Innovation, Institutions and Cities
1st Edition
By Antonio Vazquez-Barquero
July 26, 2002
The beginning of the twenty first century has been characterized by the expansion of economics, politics and institutional relations. Using international case studies, this book illustrates the local answer to the challenge of increasing competition.The book introduces the idea of endogenous ...
Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries
1st Edition
By Nadia Cuffaro
March 15, 2002
In 1950 the world population was 2.5 billion; fifty years later there are over 6 billion people. The demographic of this explosion has essentially occurred in the developing areas of the world. The key to understanding many contemporary development problems that have arisen from this rapid growth ...
From Crisis to Growth in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Mats Lundahl
October 12, 2001
This book is concerned with the problem of achieving sustained economic growth in thirteen African countries. These are divided into three groups: the war stricken economics (Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia and Eritrea), the reform strugglers (Kenya, Cape Verde, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and ...