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 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...
Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank: The Case of Argentina
1st Edition
By Ernesto Vivares
February 27, 2015
The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial ...
Globalization and Development: Rethinking Interventions and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Arne Bigsten
February 27, 2015
The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governance includes politics, policy formulation, institution building and policy implementation. It is ...
Migration and Inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanja Bastia
February 27, 2015
The ‘migration-development’ nexus has emerged as an important area of both research and policy over the last ten years. However, most of the interest has focused on the potential that migration holds for poverty alleviation. Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between ...
Contemporary Issues in Development Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By B. N. Ghosh
December 22, 2014
This new collection of articles puts the very latest issues in economic development under the microscope, exploring them from a variety of perspectives.Beginning with an assessment of the current state of play in development, the authors move forward to examine neglected issues such as human ...
The Politics of Aid Selectivity: Good Governance Criteria in World Bank, U.S. and Dutch Development Assistance
1st Edition
By Wil Hout
December 22, 2014
The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. Bringing out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in ...
New Directions in Development Economics: Growth, Environmental Concerns and Government in the 1990s
1st Edition
Edited
By Mats Lundahl, Benno Ndulu
December 01, 2014
New Directions in Development Economics is divided into two parts. The first half considers the dilemma of growth with special reference to its environmental cost. The second half focuses on the role of the state in the context of the growing dominance of the free market argument. The contributors ...
The Microfinance Impact
1st Edition
By Ranjula Bali Swain
November 10, 2014
Financial inclusion through microfinance has become a powerful force in improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. In its unique ability to link the existing extensive network of India’s rural bank branches with the Self Help Groups (SHG...
Business Regulation and Non-State Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, Ananya Reed
July 03, 2014
This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations...