Book Series
Routledge Studies in Development Economics
New & Published Titles:
Who Gains from Free Trade
Export-Led Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America
The issue of the pros and cons of free trade from the point of view of developing countries refuses to dissipate, and in Latin America,…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77044-6 (Routledge)
Targeting Development
Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals accepted by the UN in 2000 are, along with the targets set by the OECD in 1996 the subject of this…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39465-9 (Routledge)
Managing Development
Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy
Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36410-2 (Routledge)
Microfinance
Perils and Prospects
Microfinance is defined as the financial services offered to the poor for the purpose of promoting small-scale enterprises, and as such it is one of…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32874-6 (Routledge)
Overcoming Inequality in Latin America
Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century
Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015. Historically, this region has…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36284-9 (Routledge)
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Beyond Market-Driven Development
Drawing on the Experience of Asia and Latin America
Because their economies were regulated, their financial systems ‘repressed’ and their states interventionist, for many years the countries of East Asia challenged the Washington consensus,…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35960-3 (Routledge)
Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies
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…
read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34119-6 (Routledge)
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Development Dilemmas
It is widely believed that economic development in much of the world is not happening quickly enough. Indeed, the standard of living in some parts…
read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33105-0 (Routledge)
The Economics of Palestine
Economic Policy and Institutional Reform for a Viable Palestine State
This book aims to set the intense political debates on one side in order to do some serious economic analysis. It assumes that a sovereign… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32761-9 (Routledge)
The Private Sector after Communism
New Entrepreneurial Firms in Transition Economies
The transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process, though sometimes not given… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31807-5 (Routledge)
Series Details:
This series presents accounts of the present position of, and future prospects for, developing countries in terms of their Economics and potential for export led growth.
Forthcoming Titles:
Latecomer Development: Innovation and knowledge for economic growth
By Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Padmashree Gehl Sampath
To be published December 7th 2009
The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and South Asia
Edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Judith Heyer
To be published December 18th 2009
Reform and Development in China: What Can China Offer the Developing World
Edited by Yang L. Yao, Ho-Mou Wu, Justin Yifu Lin
To be published March 30th 2010
Economic Partnership Agreements and Development: EU Trade Policy Towards Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
Edited by Oliver Morrissey
To be published April 1st 2010
Credit Cooperatives in India: Past, Present and Future
By Biswa Swarup Misra
To be published April 19th 2010
Development Economics in Action Second Edition: A Study of Economic Policies in Ghana
By Tony Killick
To be published April 30th 2010
Labour Standards, Development and Trade
By Göte Hansson
To be published May 30th 2010
The Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries: Local versus Global Logic
Edited by Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, Ali Taleb
To be published June 15th 2010
Monetary and Financial Integration in West Africa
By Temitope Oshikoya
To be published July 30th 2010
Towards New Developmentalism: Market as Means rather than Master
Edited by Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Jens Christiansen
To be published August 1st 2010
Culture, Institutions, and Development: New Insights Into an Old Debate
Edited by Jean-Philippe Platteau, Robert Peccoud
To be published September 1st 2010
Agri-Food Systems and Economic Development
Edited by Spencer Henson, Steven Jaffee
To be published September 30th 2010
Energy, Bio Fuels and Development: Comparing Brazil and the United States
Edited by Edmund Amann, Werner Baer, Don Coes
To be published November 15th 2010