Development Policy Studies Series

New and Published Books

1-3 of 3 results in Development Policy Studies Series

1. IMF Programmes in Developing Countries

   Design and Impact

   By Tony Killick

   Series: Development Policy Studies Series

   The International Monetary Fund is the centre of a global financial system that encourages budgetary discipline and full integration into world trade to facilitate development and alleviate poverty. Yet this policy 'conditionality' of the IMF is highly controversial. Critics state that fifty years...

   Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge
2. IMF Lending to Developing Countries

   Issues and Evidence

   By Graham Bird

   Series: Development Policy Studies Series

   As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countries, conditional on strict remedial policy measures. Its approach to policy remains highly controversial, however. While the Fund claims it has...

   Published December 21st 1994 by Routledge
3. Managing Water as an Economic Resource

   By James Winpenny

   Series: Development Policy Studies Series

   Water, already a scarce resource, is treated as though it were plentiful and free. The task of supplying enough water of the required quality to growing populations is straining authorities and governments to the limit as the economic and environmental costs of new supply sources escalate and...

   Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge