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1. The Microfinance Impact

   By Ranjula Bali Swain

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Financial inclusion through microfinance has become a powerful force in improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. In its unique ability to link the existing extensive network of India’s rural bank branches with the Self Help Groups (SHG...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World

   Implications and Prospects for Recovery and Growth

   Edited by Ashwini Deshpande, Keith Nurse

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Chronically Poor in Rural Bangladesh

   Livelihood Constraints and Capabilities

   By Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman, Noriatsu Matsui, Yukio Ikemoto

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This book examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households in Bangladesh, it provides an accurate portrait of the everyday situations faced by the rural poor in Bangladesh today, covering all aspects of household behaviour. All of the key issues...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Who Gains from Free Trade

   Export-Led Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America

   Edited by Rob Vos

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   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, the debate rages most fiercely. Argentina is still licking its wounds after a catastrophic past five years, and Brazil and others have hardened their line – even...

   Published May 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. The Comparative Political Economy of Development

   Africa and South Asia

   Edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Judith Heyer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Credit Cooperatives in India

   Past, Present and Future

   By Biswa Swarup Misra

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Credit cooperatives in India make up one of the largest rural financial systems in the world. Playing a vital role in dispensing credit in largely agricultural areas, they are also the weakest link in the formal credit delivery system. This book provides a valuable case study of the traditional...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Globalization and Development

   Rethinking Interventions and Governance

   Edited by Arne Bigsten

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This book identifies the quality of domestic governance as the most important factor determining development outcomes in poor countries, and investigates in a series of case studies how external interventions affect this crucial development constraint. The interplay between the two...

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sustainable Development and Free Trade

   Institutional Approaches

   By Shawkat Alam

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Examining institutions rather than themes, this critical book provides a comprehensive survey of the inter-relationship between trade-induced economic growth and the environment and its impact on the global quest for sustainable development. Focusing in particular on the interests and concerns of...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Public Expenditures for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa

   Edited by Tewodaj Mogues, Samuel Benin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Whereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare measures, this book fills a much needed gap in the...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

    Whose Standards? Whose Development?

    Edited by Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, Ananya Reed

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations...

    Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge