Development Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Social Protection in Developing Countries

   Reforming Systems

   Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Disasters and the Networked Economy

   By J.M. Albala-Bertrand

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of Large...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. India in the Contemporary World

   Edited by Manish Thapa, Jakub Zajączkowski, Jivanta Schottli

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge India
4. The Geographical Transformation of China

   Edited by Michael Dunford, Liu Weidong

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book presents an account and interpretation of the transformation of the geography of China in the years since the start of China’s policy of reform and opening up as seen through the eyes of Chinese geographers. Each chapter illustrates the ways in which the particular...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Industrialization of China and India

   Their Impacts on the World Economy

   Edited by Nobuharu Yokokawa, Jayati Ghosh, Bob Rowthorn

   This book provides new perspectives on recent Asian dynamism which go beyond the mainstream views, by attempting to situate the recent economic expansion within a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation and the various processes that it generates both within and across economies. The...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong

   By Hon-Kwong Lui

   Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.2 per cent. In recent years, the widening income dispersion in Hong Kong has caught public attention. This book investigates the economic development and changes...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Aid Selectivity

   Good Governance Criteria in World Bank, U.S. and Dutch Development Assistance

   By Wil Hout

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. Bringing out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in...

   Published March 21st 2013 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 March 21st 2013 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty

    Edited by Ashoka Mody, Catherine Pattillo

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge