Development Economics

This book aims to create a space for new interdisciplinary debate in this area, through bringing together contributions on literacy and development from the fields of education, literacy studies, anthropology and economics...

For the first time, here is the complete history of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). In the fifty years since the end of World War II, the world of development finance has grown rapidly. One of the many financial institutions which cropped up to help war-torn countries with their recons..

A vindication of the belief in global or universal justice, which explores both liberal and Marxist grounds for such belief. The book also looks at the obligation to cancel Third World debt...

This title was first published in 2002: This is a unique volume among the existing literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) because it addresses the aspect of FDI outflows from CEE countries, rather than the traditional focus on inward flows. The book present..

This book is the first systematic exposition of the Japanese approach to economic development and systematic transition to appear in the English language and is important reading for students, researchers and professional policy makers...

Mats Lundahl, one of the world's leading development economists, examines Wicksell's thinking in the area of poverty, and shows the importance of his contributions to this field...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our under..

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Redistributing land rights is a tricky subject and one that easily becomes controversial as recent experience has shown. This new book calmly examines the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of land redistribution...

This book argues that economic development is largely driven by innovation, concentrating on the dynamics of process, product and organizational changes and how they are embedded within specific and varied contextual institutions...

This book argues that economic development is largely driven by innovation, concentrating on the dynamics of process, product and organizational changes and how they are embedded within specific and varied contextual institutions...

This extensively revised and updated second edition of Latin American Economic Development continues to provide the most up to date exploration of why the continent can be considered to have underperformed, how the various Latin American economies function, and the future prospects for the region. T..