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Meant for postgraduate students of development economics and political economy, this book examines the issues surrounding free trade in Latin America, and brings together the experts in the field. It discusses the extent to which trade reforms are an important source of the slowdown of economic growth, rising inequality, and rising poverty.

This book considers gender dimensions of a number of issues central to human security and development in Africa, including food security, AIDS, legal rights, violence, conflict resolution, informal work, the environment, and poverty alleviation.The gender focus of this volume points to the importance of power relationships and policy variability underlying human insecurities in the African context. The insights of this book offer the potential for an improved human security framework, one that embraces a more complex and context-specific analysis of the issues of risk and vulnerability, therefore expanding its capacity to safeguard the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations.

When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles to growth, than when the two sides fail to co-operate or engage in harmful collusion. This book, based on original empirical research undertaken in Africa and India, addresses what constitutes the effectiveness of state-business relations, what explains their formation and evolution over time and whether effective state-business relations matter for economic performance.

The post-colonial relationship between European and African states is complex. This book examines the unprecendented changes since the oil crisis of the 1970s, using new field work from Zambia as well as existing material.

This book examines the effects of financial liberalization on development, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and includes studies of Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania.

Taking in a wide range of international case-studies, this title provides an extensive guide to those countries in a state of economic flux. The author considers issues such as the impact of globalization on transitional countries.

With chapters by leading Mexican economists matched by reactions from European colleagues, this book offers a novel viewpoint on the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) process.

The beginning of the 21st century has been characterized by the expansion of economics, politics and institutional relations. Using international case studies, this book illustrates the answer to the challenge of increasing competition. It introduces the idea of endogenous development, identifying the theoretical roots and defining its features.

Using econometric analysis, this book examines factors that determine patterns of aid giving including aggregate aid flows, aid from multilateral organisations and aid from bilateral donors such as Germany, Japan, the US and Arabia.

The African manufacturing sector continues to face many problems as it struggles to progress from its presently underdeveloped state. If the countries that make up Africa are ever to raise the living standards of the vast majority of its population to a more acceptable level, then the economic growth that would result from an enlarged and improved manufacturing sector may hold an important key.The book provides a useful source of greater understanding of African manufacturing firms and the perplexing lack of widespread industrial growth during the post-colonial decades. The comprehensive coverage includes such themes as: *the size and distribution of firms in Africa*entrepreneurship, labour and the regulatory and business environments in Africa*the dynamic problem of growth and investment of firmsAny reader wanting to understand the economic problems of Africa will need to read this book, and any student, academic or policy-maker working in the areas of development and industrial economics will find it to be a most useful guide

Using India as a case study, this well-written, concise book covers everything one needs to understand how a country becomes internationally competitive, and makes a compelling case for complimentary financial sector reforms.

Examines the hurdles and problems that face entrepreneurs and private firms in post-communist nations. The text is an effort in economic analysis and shall be appreciated by all those with an interest in transition economics.

There are many theories concerning the relationship between the pace of development and economic growth in different countries. This collection explores the relationship between a country's balance of payments and their rate of economic growth. The evidence and ramifications should interest economists and policy-makers in developing countries.

Provides a comparative study of the link between globalization, growth and inequality. This book assesses how globalization affects growth, inequality and poverty in developing and transition countries. Paying particular attention to eleven low and middle income countries, it argues that globalization can help reduce poverty and inequity.

An analysis of selectivity policies of bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. It describes the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank. It is useful for students of various sub-fields of development studies and policy analysis.

Comprises of articles which are significant in the analysis of macroeconomic policies in developed and in-transition economies. This book covers topics such as the test of new theories of economic growth and convergence and the use of dynamic and rigorous time-series econometric methods for analysing money demand functions in transition economies.

This revealing book analyzes the different methods employed to manage globalization and development, including contributions from a renowned international team including Barbara Stallings, Alicia Giron and J.C. Ferraz.

This book offers an analysis of the relationship between population and the economy, encompassing a review of the major positions in the academic debate.

This collection from an international set of contributors explores the relationship between migration and inequality in Africa, Asia and Latin America, assessing the impact of migration on structures of caste, gender and class, and offering both empirical evidence and theoretical understandings on the relationship between migration and inequality.

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.

Treading the unexplored theoretical terrain created by the simultaneous decline of the Washington Consensus and Asian developmentalism, this book analyzes the comparative political economy of East Asia and Latin America.

Microfinance is a burgeoning area in economics. This volume provides a much-needed historical, political and economic dimension to current microfinance knowledge, and fills a huge gap in published literature.

Historically, Latin America has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty. Adopting a multidimensional approach, the causes and consequences of this inequality are analytically examined here.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered as efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This new book, from a group of leading scholars, explores the manifestations, scale, and economic and social implications of household over-indebtedness.

This book examines the global financial crisis, the financial regulatory problem, with particular emphasis on Brazil, and the alternative policies that derive from new developmentalism.

This book focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing companies in emerging and developing countries. It helps develop a better understanding of the realities of doing business in these locations, in particular exploring the dynamics between corporations ¿ both indigenous and multinational ¿ and local pressures in developing, transitional and emerging economies.