Development Economics Products

Edited by Augustin K. Fosu

Recent years have seen a sustained research effort exploring the African development experience. The extant literature has offered a large set of explanations as to why the African development record has lagged behind that of other regions of the developing world. This new volume brings…

Paperback – 2018-10-26
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By Deepita Chakravarty, Ishita Chakravarty

The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly. This is found to be much higher in certain parts of India, emerging as the…

Paperback – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

By Paul Mosley

It is widely accepted that natural resource wealth, especially in the form of oil and minerals, can be a key factor in inhibiting economic development. Many of the countries that are richest in natural resources – including oil, metals and diamonds – are amongst the world’s poorest. Why? Fiscal…

Paperback – 2018-10-26
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Edited by Mario Garcia-Molina, Hans-Michael Trautwein

This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions,…

Paperback – 2018-10-26
Routledge

Edited by Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux, Magdalena Villarreal

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This has brought to light the problem of over-indebtedness, a topic which has been previously underexplored in the literature. This new book, from a…

Paperback – 2018-10-26
Routledge

Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Pablo Heidrich

The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource…

Paperback – 2018-10-18
Routledge

By Sarah Bracking

The financial crash of 2008 led people all over the world to ask how far financiers are in control of our lives. To what extent does what they do with our money affect our everyday lives? This book asks whether the crisis, and subsequent use of public subsidies to help the international economy…

Paperback – 2018-10-18
Routledge

Edited by Robert E. Looney

A major new volume in the Routledge International Handbooks series analysing emerging and newly emerged economies, including the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and other likely (Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Korea) as well as possible (Vietnam, The…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Albert N. Link, Cristiano Antonelli

Strategic alliances have generally been used to refer to relationships that allow an organization to access the strengths and capabilities of other organizations, with the organization often focused on being the firm. The strategy behind such an alliance is for each firm in the alliance to draw on…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
Routledge

Edited by Ugo Carughi, Massimo Visone

Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
Routledge

Edited by Susannah Fisher, Neha Rai

Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have been implemented across several regions. Some governments are steered by international frameworks, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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By R. Sinha, Peter Pearson, Gopal Kadekodi, Mary Gregory

This book, first published in 1979, explores the sources and patterns of the distribution of personal incomes in India, between rural and urban areas and among socio-economic classes, differentiating particularly those groups falling below the poverty line.…

Paperback – 2018-09-11
Routledge
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