Books in the Palgrave Development Studies Series series

The proceedings of the Development Studies Association conference held in Dublin on the 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine examine the historical background and the reasons why the spectre of famine continues to haunt much of the developing world today.

This up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy known as the Washington Consensus begins with a review of the original thesis by the originator of the term.