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.
Fiscal Policy and the Natural Resources Curse: How to Escape from the Poverty Trap
1st Edition
By Paul Mosley
October 25, 2018
It is widely accepted that natural resource wealth, especially in the form of oil and minerals, can be a key factor in inhibiting economic development. Many of the countries that are richest in natural resources – including oil, metals and diamonds – are amongst the world’s poorest. Why? Fiscal ...
Growth and Institutions in African Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Augustin K. Fosu
October 25, 2018
Recent years have seen a sustained research effort exploring the African development experience. The extant literature has offered a large set of explanations as to why the African development record has lagged behind that of other regions of the developing world. This new volume brings ...
Microfinance, Debt and Over-Indebtedness: Juggling with Money
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux, Magdalena Villarreal
October 25, 2018
Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This has brought to light the problem of over-indebtedness, a topic which has been previously underexplored in the literature. This new book, from a...
Peripheral Visions of Economic Development: New frontiers in development economics and the history of economic thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Garcia-Molina, Hans-Michael Trautwein
October 25, 2018
This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions, ...
The Financialisation of Power: How financiers rule Africa
1st Edition
By Sarah Bracking
October 18, 2018
The financial crash of 2008 led people all over the world to ask how far financiers are in control of our lives. To what extent does what they do with our money affect our everyday lives? This book asks whether the crisis, and subsequent use of public subsidies to help the international economy ...
The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development: From neoliberalism to resource nationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul A. Haslam, Pablo Heidrich
October 18, 2018
The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource...
Building Businesses in Emerging and Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Elie Virgile Chrysostome, Rick Molz
August 14, 2018
This book focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing companies in emerging and developing countries. China and India have become the primary business destination for many global companies that are looking for market opportunities and low costs of production, whilst Morocco, Dubai, Brazil, ...
The African Manufacturing Firm: An Analysis Based on Firm Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
By Ata Mazaheri, Dipak Mazumdar
August 10, 2018
The African manufacturing sector continues to face many problems as it struggles to progress from its presently underdeveloped state. If the countries that make up Africa are ever to raise the living standards of the vast majority of its population to a more acceptable level, then the economic ...
Trade, Investment and Economic Development in Asia: Empirical and policy issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Debashis Chakraborty, Jaydeep Mukherjee
January 03, 2018
In an era of globalization, trade in goods and cross-border services and capital flows play a key role in determining the economic growth path of countries. Over the last two decades, countries have embarked on several alternate tracks to liberalize and deepen their linkage with the world economy. ...
Structural Transformation and Economic Development: Cross regional analysis of industrialization and urbanization
1st Edition
By Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Kaushalesh Lal
December 22, 2017
This book examines long-term structural changes and the broad impact on economic development in regional comparative perspectives. The book analyzes data across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It looks at key variables of productivity growth, industrialization, poverty, urbanization, and employment...
State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India
1st Edition
Edited
By Kunal Sen
June 16, 2017
When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles to growth, than when the two sides fail to co-operate or engage in harmful collusion. This ...
Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care in India: Lessons for developing countries
1st Edition
By A. Venkat Raman, James Warner Björkman
May 18, 2017
Public-private partnerships are increasingly advocated to alleviate deficiencies in the public health system as well as to reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive, burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on India, this book examines how the private ...