Development Economics

This book examines the opportunities which have opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development...

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book examines the global financial crisis, the financial regulatory problem, with particular emphasis on Brazil, and the alternative policies that derive from new developmentalism...

_x005F_x000D_ The fully revised new edition of this textbook presents a well-balanced set of economic development financing tools and techniques focused on our current times of economic austerity. While traditional public sector techniques are evaluated and refocused, this volume emphasizes the role..

This book offers an independent and grounded investigation concerning the political economic role of Regional Development Banks through a study of the world’s leading regional development bank, the Inter-American Development Bank...

_x005F_x000D_ Fiscal Policy and the Natural Resources Curse ask why many governments of natural resource-intensive countries are incapable, in a globalised world, of dealing with the natural-resource curse. This book offers a detailed analysis of the power-relationships which underpin the natural re..

Originally published in 1960, with a second edition in 1969, this book is of special interest for having been the first systematic attempt to discuss problems of fiscal policy from the point of view of promoting economic growth in underdeveloped countries. It deals mainly with problems of tax policy..

Presents an analysis of the problems of US foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved, and how they might be solved. This book focuses on US foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization...

Presents an analysis of the problems of US foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved, and how they might be solved. This book focuses on US foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization...

Analyses the economic and political vulnerability of resource-dependent countries, and assesses how resources influence the likelihood and course of conflicts. It also discusses initiatives to improve resource governance in the interest of peace...

Bringing together feminist analyses of economic processes and outcomes, and feminist critiques of orientalism, this book examines the diverse economic realities facing women in a range of Muslim communities. It was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Economics...

Bringing together feminist analyses of economic processes and outcomes, and feminist critiques of orientalism, this book examines the diverse economic realities facing women in a range of Muslim communities. It was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Economics...