Economics Catalog 2013

Economic Growth and Sustainable Development

By Peter Hess

Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics

Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living. Sustainable development, popularly and concisely defined as ‘meeting the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...

Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition

Edited by Paul Hare, Gerard Turley

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. As more than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the...

Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge

African Industrial Development and EU Cooperation

Edited by Francis Matambalya

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

A long road to substantive levels of industrialization still lies ahead of most African countries. The challenges facing policy-makers, industrialists, industrial development activist and all other actors in these countries are enormous. This raises the question as to, what role the international...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Building Businesses in Emerging and Developing Countries

Challenges and Opportunities

Edited by Elie Chrysostome, Rick Molz, Li Yan

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

This book focuses on the new challenges and opportunities of business companies in emerging and developing countries. China and India have become the first business destination for many global companies that are looking for market opportunities and low costs of production, whilst Morocco, Dubai,...

To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge

Digital Interactions in Developing Countries

An Economic Perspective

By Jeffrey James

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions,...

Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge

Disasters and the Networked Economy

By J.M. Albala-Bertrand

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of Large...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Financial Cooperatives and Local Development

Edited by Silvio Goglio, Yiorgos Alexopoulos

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and...

Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge

Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank

The Case of Argentina

By Ernesto Vivares

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial...

Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge

Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa

Edited by Howard Stein, Amal Fadlalla

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The concept of security has often narrowly focused on issues surrounding the protection of national borders from outside threats. However, a richer idea of human security has become increasingly important in the past decade or so. The aim is to incorporate various dimensions of the downside risks...

Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge

Globalization and Development

Rethinking Interventions and Governance

Edited by Arne Bigsten

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governance includes politics, policy formulation, institution building and policy implementation. It is...

Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

A History of Development Economics Thought

Alternative Approaches

By Shahrukh Khan

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches. If we loosely think of the evolution of development economics in terms of a series of crises that the established paradigm cannot resolve, the most significant shift in the last century was...

To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

Migration and Inequality

Edited by Tanja Bastia

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The ‘migration-development’ nexus has emerged as an important area of both research and policy over the last ten years. However, most of the interest has focused on the potential that migration holds for poverty alleviation. Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between...

Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge

The Financialisation of Power in Africa

By Sarah Bracking

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

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

To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge

The Theory and Practice of Microcredit

By Wahiduddin Mahmud, S.R. Osmani

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Microcredit has emerged as a hugely popular tool all over the developing world for helping poor people to help themselves by engaging in self-employed income-earning activities. By developing innovative ways of providing the poor with access to credit, the ‘microcredit revolution’, as it has come...

To Be Published July 19th 2013 by Routledge

The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty

Pressing Need, Manageable Cost, Practical Possibilities, Favourable Spillovers

By Anthony Clunies-Ross, Mozammel Huq

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a...

To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge

Economic Development and Military Security

The Case of South Asia

By Somnath Sen

Series: Routledge Studies in Defence and Peace Economics

The challenges of economic development become harder to achieve if poor countries also face military threats, either from external sources (such as the arms race between India and Pakistan) or from internal sources (conflicts and civil wars in Kashmir, Nepal and Sri Lanka). This book examines the...

To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge

Economics and HIV

The Sickness of Economics

By Deborah Johnston

Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa. Part I shows that microeconomic approaches have found fertile ground in a public health approach that ‘blames’ individual...

Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge

Economic Development in the Middle East, 2nd edition

By Rodney Wilson

By examining economic development in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this textbook introduces undergraduate and postgraduate students to the most pressing and topical economic issues in the contemporary Middle East. With comprehensive coverage of the entire region, the author...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Emerging Knowledge Economies in Asia

Current Trends in ASEAN-5

Edited by Dessy Irawati, Roel Rutten

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

The book aims to identify key issues and developments in ASEAN-5 that illustrate the transition of this region towards a knowledge-based economy. The book contributes to understanding the opportunities and challenges faced by emerging economies. It explains the transition...

To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge

Industrialization of China and India

Their Impacts on the World Economy

Edited by Nobuharu Yokokawa, Jayati Ghosh, Bob Rowthorn

This book provides new perspectives on recent Asian dynamism which go beyond the mainstream views, by attempting to situate the recent economic expansion within a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation and the various processes that it generates both within and across economies. The...

Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge

Institutions, Regulatory Styles, Society and Environmental Governance in China

By Carlos Wing-Hung Lo, Shui-Yan Tang

During the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating environmental degradation. Most scholarly and popular publications have painted a rather pessimistic picture about the worrisome trend. Yet a somewhat more optimistic view has emerged in the past decade...

To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge

Leading Issues in International Economic Development

Edited by Tony Fu-Lai Yu, Yuen Wai-Kee

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge

Management

A Developing Country Perspective

By Betty Jane Punnett

The global business world appears to be changing and there is an ever greater focus on developing countries. This change in the international business environment is not reflected in the range of management textbooks currently available, as most are written from a developed country perspective This...

Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge

Trade Agreements at the Crossroads

Edited by Susy Frankel, Meredith Lewis

The book examines trade agreements in the context of the current world economic crisis and the uncompleted World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations. With economies shrinking and protectionism on the rise, many fear a protracted global recession. This raises important...

To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge

Trade and Employment in Asia

Edited by Niny Khor, Devashish Mitra

The volume investigates the links between employment, trade, and structural transformation. Global rebalancing will be accompanied by inevitable changes in trade patterns between Asia and the rest of the world. More specifically, the chapters of the volume analyze the links between openness to...

To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge

Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy

Models, Approaches and Prospects for Economic Development

Edited by Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Ekaterina Turkina

Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship

Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. Informal entrepreneurship goes unmonitored despite the fact that it significantly contributes to poverty...

Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge

The Economic Development Process in the Middle East and North Africa

By Alessandro Romagnoli, Luisa Mengoni

Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Economies

Offering a comprehensive analysis of the development of economies in the Middle East and North Africa over the past half century, this book charts the progress of these countries through an examination of an Islamic model of economic development, reform processes, and economic integration. Far from...

To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge

Globalism and Regional Economy

Edited by Susumu Egashiru

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

The book covers the results of trial and error of regional economies in Japan, Korea, Austria, New Zealand, and the UK over the past two decades. Since the end of the cold war, regional economies have been struggling to meet the demands of global change, and are trying to find a new approach...

To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge

Thoughts on Economic Development in China

Edited by Ma Ying, Hans-Michael Trautwein

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world. The book describes important...

Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge

Eastern and Western Ideas for African Growth

Diversity and Complementarity in Development Aid

Edited by Kenichi Ohno, Izumi Ohno

Series: Routledge-GRIPS Development Forum Studies

The West and the East approach economic development differently. The Europeans and Americans stress free and fair business climate, promoting private activities generally without picking winners, and improving governance. East Asia is interested in achieving concrete results and projects rather...

Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Business in Africa

Edited by Sonny Nwankwo, Kevin Ibeh

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Although the world's poorest inhabited continent, Africa has recently shown signs of being a source of economic growth in the coming decades, with increased foreign investment - notably from China - and huge growth in GDP from a number of African states. In contrast to the heaving weight of books...

To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge

Routledge Handbook of Modern Israel

Edited by Alain Dieckhoff

Israel is a country made up of contradictions. A lively democracy in a multicultural society but within a state promoting a strong national identity; a thriving economy in an unequal society; a culture open to modern trends but drawing on the Hebrew past and preoccupied with the Holocaust and the...

Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge

Economic and Trade Policies in the Arab World

Employment, Poverty Reduction and Integration

Edited by Mahmoud Elkhafif, Sahar Taghdisi-Rad, Mutasim Elagraa

Series: Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

The Arab Spring and recent popular uprisings that have taken place in many Arab countries since the end of 2010 highlight the urgent need for economic policy reorientation in these countries. This book addresses key issues relevant to the contemporary economic realities of the Arab economies;...

Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge

Macroeconomics and Human Development

Edited by Deepak Nayyar

In the conventional discourse on macroeconomics, the subject of human development is at best marginal and at worst irrelevant. In the unconventional discourse on human development, macroeconomics or its constraints are seldom recognised, even if its consequences are often highlighted. There are,...

Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge

Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries

Theory, Evidence and Policy

Edited by Carlos Oya, Nicola Pontara

Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

Poverty is still a serious global phenomenon, and remains concentrated in rural areas of developing countries. Much literature has been devoted to understanding the lives and prospects for small poor producers (smallholder farmers) and micro-entrepreneurs, but much less is known and written about...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Ending Asian Deprivations

Compulsions for a Fair, Prosperous and Equitable Asia

Edited by Shiladitya Chatterjee

Despite Asia’s rapid growth, vast sections of its population still live in poverty and suffer hunger and other forms of deprivation. Merely relying on Asia’s growth will not help the deprived see a better future in their lifetimes. Ways must be found to make growth more inclusive combined with...

To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge