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31. Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development

    Contrasting Theories and Realities

    Edited by A.H.J. Helmsing, Sietze Vellema

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive...

    Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
32. Market Liberalism, Growth, and Economic Development in Latin America

    Edited by Gerardo Angeles Castro, Ignacio Perrotini-Hernández, Humberto Ríos-Bolivar

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    The principal themes pursued in this book emerge from the great transformation that the Latin American and the Caribbean economies experienced in the aftermath of both the foreign debt crisis of 1982 and the macroeconomic stabilisation policies that vividly and painfully produced the so-called "...

    Published May 12th 2011 by Routledge
33. Economic Development, Education and Transnational Corporations

    By Mark Hanson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    This book focuses on the questions of: why do some economically disadvantaged nations develop significantly faster than others, and what roles do their educational systems play? As case illustrations, in the early 1960s Mexico and South Korea were both equally underdeveloped agrarian societies....

    Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
34. Energy, Bio Fuels and Development

    Comparing Brazil and the United States

    Edited by Edmund Amann, Werner Baer, Don Coes

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    This collection examines the important and topical issue of the economic, social and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. The book expertly examines this issue by focussing on the contrasting experiences of two major economies; one...

    Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
35. Social Protection for Africa’s Children

    Edited by Sudhanshu Handa, Stephen Devereux, Douglas Webb

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Social protection is an increasingly important part of the social policy dialogue in Africa, and yet because of its relatively new place in a rapidly evolving agenda, evidence on critical design choices such as targeting, and on impacts of social protection interventions, is mostly limited to case...

    Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge
36. Towards New Developmentalism

    Market as Means rather than Master

    Edited by Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Jens Christiansen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism. Although neo-liberalism has been critiqued from various perspectives, these critiques have not coalesced into a concrete alternative in development economics literature. The...

    Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
37. Culture, Institutions, and Development

    New Insights Into an Old Debate

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Platteau, Robert Peccoud

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and...

    Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
38. Assessing Prospective Trade Policy

    Methods Applied to EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

    Edited by Oliver Morrissey

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    The European Union (EU) has provided trade preferences to the former colonies of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions since 1975 but these preferences have been of limited value and found to be incompatible with WTO rules. To continue preferences, economic partnership agreements (EPAs)...

    Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
39. Reform and Development in China

    What Can China Offer the Developing World

    Edited by Yang Yao, Ho-Mou Wu

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Between 1978 and 2006, GDP growth in China maintained an annual average rate of 9.7%, meaning the Chinese economy increased by more than twelve times. This was achieved with quite unorthodox approaches to reform and development as China has adopted a gradualist approach to adopting key institutions...

    Published August 12th 2010 by Routledge
40. The Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries

    Local versus Global Logic

    Edited by Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, Ali Taleb

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    A key distinctive feature of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) as organizations resides in the fact that they span across borders. This exposes them to dissimilar and often unfamiliar social and economic conditions as they venture in foreign countries. MNEs from industrialized economies that are...

    Published July 22nd 2010 by Routledge