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.
Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India
1st Edition
By Goran Djurfeldt, Srilata Sircar
December 12, 2019
The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian agriculture. However, this relationship has now changed as large landowners have fallen from their superior position. This volume explores how this emblematic pair is becoming a thing of the past. Structural Transformation and Agrarian ...
Sustainable Growth in the African Economy: How Durable is Africa�s Recent Performance?
1st Edition
By Jeffrey James
December 12, 2019
The current growth path in sub-Saharan Africa is not following the Lewis model where labour moves from low-productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing. Instead, it is moving directly to inappropriate (import and labour-saving) methods. This book seeks to show how this distorted ...
The Economics of Natural Resources in Latin America: Taxation and Regulation of the Extractive Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Osmel E. Manzano M., Fernando Navajas, Andrew Powell
December 12, 2019
Revenues from commodities are extremely important for Latin America and the Caribbean, yet there is very little literature on the structure of these industries and on the various ways in which the state obtains commodity revenues. This book aims to understand the trade-off between the degree of ...
The Theory and Practice of Microcredit
1st Edition
By Wahiduddin Mahmud, S. R. Osmani
December 12, 2019
The remarkable speed at which microcredit has expanded around the world in the last three decades has piqued the curiosity of practitioners and theorists alike. By developing innovative ways of making credit available to the poor, the idea of microcredit has challenged many traditional assumptions ...
Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Working but Poor
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiroyuki Hino, Gustav Ranis
December 12, 2019
It is widely acknowledged that youth unemployment is one of the most critical challenges facing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume brings together an eminent group of international scholars to analyse the extent and complex nature of this joblessness, and offer a set of evidence-based ...
The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization: Policy issues
1st Edition
By Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi
October 23, 2019
Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental ...
China's War against the Many Faces of Poverty: Towards a new long march
1st Edition
By Jing Yang, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya
September 05, 2019
China’s War against the Many Faces of Poverty measures multidimensional poverty in China and deprivation related to income, education, health issues, living standards and social security. The book adopts a well-developed methodology using three different empirical datasets to analyse aspects of ...
Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture: The Hidden Realities
1st Edition
By Rie Makita, Tadasu Tsuruta
June 04, 2019
In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry within the social sciences, agricultural certification, and particularly its Fair Trade and organic components, has emerged as a significant tool for promoting rural development in the global South. This book is unique for two reasons. First, ...
Economic Transformation for Poverty Reduction in Africa: A Multidimensional Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Almas Heshmati
April 11, 2019
This book is an edited volume which contains empirical studies on determinants of poverty and its reduction in Africa. It looks at multidimensional measures of poverty, production and productivity-related factors, policies influencing poverty and random, hazardous but preventive factors influencing...
Developmental Macroeconomics: New Developmentalism as a Growth Strategy
1st Edition
By Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, José Luís Oreiro, Nelson Marconi
January 03, 2019
Developmental Macroeconomics: Access to Demand, the Exchange Rate and Growth offers a new approach to development economics and macroeconomics. It is a Keynesian-structuralist approach to economics applied to middle income countries that emphasizes the strategic role of demand in creating ...
Financial Stability and Growth: Perspectives on financial regulation and new developmentalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Jan Kregel, Leonardo Burlamaqui
December 19, 2018
The 2008 global financial crisis took the world by surprise, not least because politicians, businessmen and economists believed that they had learned crucial lessons from the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a direct result of deregulated financial markets, financial crises occurred in both ...
The Informal Economy in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Pierre Cling, Stéphane Lagrée, Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud
December 19, 2018
Informality is ubiquitous in most developing countries. Understanding the informal economy is therefore of utmost importance from a political, economic and social point of view. Paradoxically, despite its economic importance, knowledge is extremely limited regarding the informal economy. It remains...