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  1. Persistent Underdevelopment

    Change and Economic Modernization in the West Indies

    By Jay Mandle

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1996, this insightful and informative text examines the post-emancipation and recent economic history of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Jay R. Mandle offers an explanation of the region’s continuing underdevelopment. Through the use of an analytical framework derived from the works...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Poltiical Change in the Third World

    By Charles Andrain

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    In this informative and highly readable book, first published in 1988, Charles Andrain explores the ways in which public policies and socio-political beliefs and structures cause political change in the Third World. The author examines 3 types of political change: (1) transitions in political...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  3. New Trends in Development Theory

    Essays in Development and Social Theory

    By Peter Preston

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    The theme of this work, first published in 1985, is the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory. They provide preliminary analysis of the multiplicity of social-theoretic arguments in development theory and their implications for social theory in general. The book...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Military Regimes and Development

    A Comparative Analysis in African Societies

    By Olatunde Odetola

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1982, this book aims to examine the role that ruling military governments have played in African development. Dr Odetola discusses military organisational values and skills in modernisation and argues that the evocation and application of these values and skills depends on the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Money and Finance in Africa

    The Experience of Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, the Sudan and Tunisia from the establishment of their central banks until 1962

    By Erin Fleetwood

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    This reissue, first published in 1964, describes the contemporary problems faced and solutions found by the monetary and financial authorities of six African countries: Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, the Rhodesias, the Sudan and Tunisia, from the establishment of their central banks until 1962.This...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Regional Security in the Third World

    Case Studies from Southeast Asia and the Middle East

    Edited by Mohammed Ayoob

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    This reissue, first published in 1986, argues that there is a radical difference between the use of the term ‘Regional Security’ when applied to the Third World rather than the developed world. It explores the concept of regional security and shows how items which make for regional security in the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Energy, Environment and Economic Transformation in China

    By Shiyi Chen

    China has achieved rapid economic growth since the market-oriented reform in 1978 and became the second largest economy in the world in 2010. However, the growth model in China is still extensive in nature and may be characterized with high energy consumption and heavy...

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Indian Economic Policy and Development

    By P. T. Bauer

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    Professor Bauer’s book, first published in 1961, reviews the major elements of contemporary official Indian development policy, considers their economic implications and their probable political and economic results. He then examines alternative approaches to the promotion of development. The...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  9. Fiscal Policy in Underdeveloped Countries

    With Special Reference to India

    By Raja J. Chelliah

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    Originally published in 1960, with a second edition in 1969, this book is of special interest for having been the first systematic attempt to discuss problems of fiscal policy from the point of view of promoting economic growth in underdeveloped countries. It deals mainly with problems of tax...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  10. Federalism and economic growth in underdeveloped countries

    By Ursula Hicks

    First published in 1961, this reissue is based upon the proceedings of a working party conference held at Exeter in September 1959 and deals with the experiences of older federations, the constraints of the traditional social order, the stark economic needs of the contemporary economic situation,...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge