Books in the Routledge Studies in Development Economics series

Treading the unexplored theoretical terrain created by the simultaneous decline of the Washington Consensus and Asian developmentalism, this book analyzes the comparative political economy of East Asia and Latin America.

Microfinance is a burgeoning area in economics. This volume provides a much-needed historical, political and economic dimension to current microfinance knowledge, and fills a huge gap in published literature.

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.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered as efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This new book, from a group of leading scholars, explores the manifestations, scale, and economic and social implications of household over-indebtedness.

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.

This book focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing companies in emerging and developing countries. It helps develop a better understanding of the realities of doing business in these locations, in particular exploring the dynamics between corporations ¿ both indigenous and multinational ¿ and local pressures in developing, transitional and emerging economies.

Recent years have seen a sustained efforts to explore the African development experience. The extant literature has offered a large set of explanations as to why the African development record has lagged behind that of other regions of the developing world. This new volume brings international contributors together to focus on the role of growth and institutions.

This essential reference work reflects topical trends of thought and identifies prevailing problems and solutions. The first half focuses on economic growth and the second examines the role of the state versus the market.

This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions, particularly in Latin America. Bringing together an international group of historians of thought, economic historians and development economists from Latin America, Europe and other parts of the world, this volume is highly credited and is an excellent contribution to development economic studies.

This book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of the theory and practice involved in designing policies on the international aspects of fiscal regimes for these industries, with a particular focus on developing and emerging economies. It addresses key topics that are not frequently covered in the literature, such as the geo-political implications of cross-border pipelines and the legal implications of mining contracts and regional financial obligations. The contributors, all of whom are leading researchers with experience of working with governments and companies on these issues, present an authoritative collection of chapters.

The early 21st century has seen a prolonged price boom in non-fuel commodities, coupled with a volatile performance in fuel prices. This new collection presents the latest research on commodity prices and economic development in the context of this changing globalized economy.

Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation reflects the increasingly holistic approach to development in terms of both teaching and research, and illustrates how civic innovation happens everywhere; at the global and institutional level as well as in communities and for individuals. Combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, this book defines the dynamic and complex process of civic innovation as the multiple economic, political and social processes where peoples, organizations, movements and ideas are shaping struggles for global justice on the interface of capitalism.

Development management typically involves complex interactions between governmental and non-governmental organisations, donors and members of the public, and can be difficult to navigate. This book brings together a group of international contributors to explore the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of development management, and to consider the prospects and challenges associated with it in the context of both developing and transitional countries. The chapters are based on cutting edge research, challenging much of the previous discourse on the subject and evaluating the challenges and opportunities that it presents.

This books uses primary data of rural households collected in eight countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to shed new light on increased farm income, increased investment in schooling of children, poverty reduction and the development of non-farm economies.

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.