Routledge Studies in Development Economics
About the Book Series
The last decade has seen dramatic changes in the economic position of developing countries. A minority of middle-income countries, especially in Asia, have fared relatively well. This has led some economists and policy makers to argue that other developing countries need to adopt the same policies of export led growth. However the results of this have been disappointing and many of the world's poorest countries have seen their positions decline in both relative and absolute terms. This series presents accounts of the present position of, and future prospects for, the developing countries.
The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization: Policy issues
1st Edition
By Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi
October 23, 2019
Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental ...
China's War against the Many Faces of Poverty: Towards a new long march
1st Edition
By Jing Yang, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya
September 05, 2019
China’s War against the Many Faces of Poverty measures multidimensional poverty in China and deprivation related to income, education, health issues, living standards and social security. The book adopts a well-developed methodology using three different empirical datasets to analyse aspects of ...
Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture: The Hidden Realities
1st Edition
By Rie Makita, Tadasu Tsuruta
June 04, 2019
In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry within the social sciences, agricultural certification, and particularly its Fair Trade and organic components, has emerged as a significant tool for promoting rural development in the global South. This book is unique for two reasons. First, ...
Economic Transformation for Poverty Reduction in Africa: A Multidimensional Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Almas Heshmati
April 11, 2019
This book is an edited volume which contains empirical studies on determinants of poverty and its reduction in Africa. It looks at multidimensional measures of poverty, production and productivity-related factors, policies influencing poverty and random, hazardous but preventive factors influencing...
Developmental Macroeconomics: New Developmentalism as a Growth Strategy
1st Edition
By Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, José Luís Oreiro, Nelson Marconi
January 03, 2019
Developmental Macroeconomics: Access to Demand, the Exchange Rate and Growth offers a new approach to development economics and macroeconomics. It is a Keynesian-structuralist approach to economics applied to middle income countries that emphasizes the strategic role of demand in creating ...
Financial Stability and Growth: Perspectives on financial regulation and new developmentalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Jan Kregel, Leonardo Burlamaqui
December 19, 2018
The 2008 global financial crisis took the world by surprise, not least because politicians, businessmen and economists believed that they had learned crucial lessons from the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a direct result of deregulated financial markets, financial crises occurred in both ...
The Informal Economy in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Pierre Cling, Stéphane Lagrée, Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud
December 19, 2018
Informality is ubiquitous in most developing countries. Understanding the informal economy is therefore of utmost importance from a political, economic and social point of view. Paradoxically, despite its economic importance, knowledge is extremely limited regarding the informal economy. It remains...
Fiscal Policy and the Natural Resources Curse: How to Escape from the Poverty Trap
1st Edition
By Paul Mosley
October 25, 2018
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 ...
Growth and Institutions in African Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Augustin K. Fosu
October 25, 2018
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 ...
Microfinance, Debt and Over-Indebtedness: Juggling with Money
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux, Magdalena Villarreal
October 25, 2018
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...
Peripheral Visions of Economic Development: New frontiers in development economics and the history of economic thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Garcia-Molina, Hans-Michael Trautwein
October 25, 2018
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, ...
The Financialisation of Power: How financiers rule Africa
1st Edition
By Sarah Bracking
October 18, 2018
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 ...