Books in the The United Nations Series on Development series

This volume brings together new contributions from academic economists and political scienists as well as experts from the United Nations. It calls for a more integrated policy approach and studies the processes which lead to explosion of civil strife.

This book provides a new set of ideas to overcome the deficiencies in the ongoing process of globalization and in the mechanisms for global economic governance. The authors aim to present ideas that could become the basis for a new, coherent "toolbox" designed to guide development policies and international cooperation.

Despite the rise in recent decades in the average income level, economic insecurity has also increased. Written by leading experts this state-of-the-art collection illuminates the causes of economic insecurity.

This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies.

This volume brings together new contributions from academic economists and political scienists as well as experts from the United Nations. It calls for a more integrated policy approach and studies the processes which lead to explosion of civil strife.

This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development;how to make macroeconomic policies support more effectively sustained growth while reducing widespread poverty and inequalities and other human development gaps in low and middle income countries.