Economics

Written during the Second World War, this book deals with the changing role of the government, and particularly fiscal policy as an instrument for regulating the national income and its distribution...

A team of international policy practitioners consider the recent reforms affecting the advanced, less developed & former socialist economies. The results provide essential reading for policy-makers and theorists alike...

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book examines the diffusion of flexible automation at a local firm and global level in countries such as Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela...

Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects. _x000D_ _x000D_ Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid ..

This book is a collection of evidence-based studies conducted mainly in poor areas of rural China during the recent two decades. Based on individual interviews and sample data analyses, it examines the issues of poverty reduction, gender equality, social protection, elimination of social exclusion, ..

This book shows that the debate on food security policies has changed with the passage of time, but the bearing of socio-economic structures on the food security of African households and their individual members are still not fully recognised...

This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. Case studies include pasteurisation in Britain and the E coli outbreak...

Using quantitative data, this book addresses internationalisation by focussing on the impact of Foreign Direct Investment and democracy on economic development and the effects of economic internationalisation on democracy...

Analyses the main institutional and policy determinants of the foreign trade behaviour of a centrally planned economy and studies factors that affect the level and pattern of foreign trade...

This updated edition is radically changed from the original and will be much appreciated by thinkers within economics. Boland is back...

This edited collection presents a post-Keynesian analysis of international economics and trade. The readings present original, state-of-the-art research by leading post-Keynesian scholars...