Development Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. The Capability Approach

   Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. Manufacturing Enterprise in Asia

   Size Structure and Economic Growth

   By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Issues relating to the size of firms in manufacturing are central to the discussion of development strategies. This book offers an interpretation of growth trajectories in selected Asian economies in terms of the size-structure of enterprises in the manufacturing sector of these economies. The book...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. A Russian Factory Enters the Market Economy

   By Claudio Morrison

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth

   Edited by Richard Sanders, Chen Yang

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more quickly than at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing environmental difficulties and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Everyday Economic Practices

   The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices

   By Savinna Chowdhury

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China

   By Biliang Hu

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in the Chinese countryside, puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs. Focusing in particular on...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Monetary Union in the Gulf

    Prospects for a Single Currency in the Arabian Peninsula

    By Emilie Rutledge

    Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

    At a time of momentous shifts in the balance of world economic forces epitomized by the current oil price boom, the weakening US dollar and the global credit crunch; the meteoric rise of the Arabian peninsula cannot be understated. Neither, therefore, can their planned monetary union. As key...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge