Books in the Routledge Studies in Development Economics series

This brand new collection of articles looks at both traditional concerns in economic development such as aid, debt and the role of the IMF, but also at gender, brain drain, military expenditure and postcolonial theory.

Written by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, this book gives an insight into the implications of new and emerging technologies in development evaluation.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition in women and children in India. The linkages are cogently explored and connected to the Sustainable Development Goals.

This book addresses the multifaceted problems arising from high energy demand. It highlights the need for a multi-dimensional analysis of the relationship between energy and other sectors is needed while providing constructive policy recommendations.

Unique in its depth this book assesses the postures of the new consensus topic by topic, whilst posing strong alternatives. It will improve and stimulate understanding of one of the most important issues in international economics.

Now available in paperback, this important collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field such as Frank Ellis and Chris Barrett, there are a number of contributors from developing countries themselves. The book examines both macroeconomic and microeconomic phenomena and contains wide range of case studies.

Access to justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under a wide body of international, regional and domestic laws. This book brings together contributors to explore and analyze the issue of gendered access to justice, poverty and disempowerment across Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book is the product of research undertaken at the African Development Bank (AfDB) on the lessons that the continent of Africa can draw from the role of the state in Asia's rapid economic development in the last 50 years. The book also provides insight into the learning experiences of Asia, in addressing key national policy challenges.

How would Palestine organise itself as a state economically? A respected, international group of academics have come together under the editorship of Cobham and Kanafani to analyze and attempt to answer this difficult question.

With contributions from leading experts in the field, this work explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries.

How would Palestine organize itself as a state economically? A respected, international group of academics have come together under the editorship of Cobham and Kanafani to analyze and attempt to answer this difficult question.

This impressive collection explores the relationship between a country's balance of payments and their rate of economic growth.

This book provides a strong multidisciplinary examination of the links between migration, remittances and sustainable development in Africa. It makes evidence-based policy recommendations on migration to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The history of economic ideas and their intricate relation to economic policies remains a relatively unexplored field in Latin American and Caribbean studies. This book is a useful contribution to this literature.

Challenging assumptions about the benefits of specific development practices, this book provides readers with an overview of how competing frameworks have developed and the ways that specific development practices reflect specific understandings of the main debates. It offers a historical overview of attempts to achieve economic development.

Examines the economic, social, and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. This book emphasises the area of concern that surrounds the causes and consequence of the contrasting routes to biofuel production represented by sugar cane (in Brazil) and corn (in the US).

Informality is ubiquitous in most developing countries. Understanding the informal economy is therefore of utmost importance from a political, economic and social point of view. Paradoxically, despite its economic importance, knowledge is extremely limited regarding the informal economy. It remains largely unrecognized by researchers, is neglected by politicians, and is even negatively perceived as it is meant to disappear with development.

Of the fifty-four African states, only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries. The economic activities in Africa are still dominated by the production and trade of agricultural and mineral commodities. This situation is in spite of the longstanding Africa-European Union (EU) co-operation, which intends, among other things, to support Africäs industrialization endeavours.

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 sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and public spending on social and developmental goals surged.　 These trends, often described as resource nationalism, have developed into a strategy for economic development, generated a re-imagining of the state and its institutional possibilities, and created a new but very significant political risk for extractive enterprises. However, these innovations, which constitute the most dramatic change in development policy in Latin America since the advent of neoliberalism, have so far received little attention from either academic or policy-oriented publications. This book explores the reasons behind these policies, and their effects on states, firms, and development trajectories. This text brings together renowned thematic experts to examine the political-economic causes of resource nationalism, as well as its manifestation in six Latin American countries. The causal variables considered by the contributors to this collection include a range of political-economic determinants of policy including commodity prices; the influence of ideology and national politics; ideas about industrial policy; relations between host governments and investors; and how countries respond to opportunities provided by regional initiatives and the new geography of the global economy. This volume is essential reading in development economics, political economy, and Latin American studies, as well as for those who want to understand what economic development means after neoliberalism.

This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field, there are a number of local contributors.

This volume seeks to generalise the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and shed light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and what does not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness.

Historically, Latin America has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty. Adopting a multidimensional approach, the causes and consequences of this inequality are analytically examined here.

Globalization in the 1990s provided opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. This book analyzes various methods employed to manage globalization and development. Bringing together an international team of contributors, it is useful to those involved in the fields of development economics and political economy.