Development Studies Paperbacks

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211. Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary China

     By Shujie Yao

     Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

     China has experienced over a quarter century of rapid economic growth, which has had a phenomenal impact on the global economy. Entering into the twenty-first century implies that China has begun a new phase of economic and social development. Yao reviews the economic development history...

     Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
212. Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond

     Edited by Daniel Bach, Mamoudou Gazibo

     Series: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations

     Neopatrimonialism, a system whereby rulers use state resources for personal benefit and to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population, is central to any teaching or conceptualisation of contemporary African politics. This book is a theoretical and comparative study of neopatrimonialism...

     Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
213. Managing Development

     Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy

     Edited by Junji Nakagawa

     Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

     Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to...

     Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
214. International Labor Mobility

     Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Scale

     By Bharati Basu

     Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

     Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which economizes cost and helps large scale production.This book analyses the implications of migration for the levels of unemployment and distinguishes...

     Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
215. Innovation in Complex Social Systems

     Edited by Petra Ahrweiler

     Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

     Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists....

     Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
216. Development in Malaysia (Routledge Revivals)

     Poverty, Wealth and Trusteeship

     By Ozay Mehmet

     First published in 1986, the Malaysian economy has grown remarkably since 1970 but despite this poverty is still widespread. This book examines the record of economic development in Malaysia over this period and evaluates the success of the New Economic Policy. In particular it examines the merits...

     Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
217. The World Bank and HIV/AIDS

     Setting a Global Agenda

     By Sophie Harman

     Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

     The governance of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has come to represent a multi-faceted and complex operation in which the World Bank has set and sustained the global agenda for by the World Bank. The governance of HIV/ AIDS. Through economic incentive they have restructured the is a political foundations of...

     Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
218. Neoliberalism and the Law in Post Communist Transition

     The Evolving Role of Law in Russia’s Transition to Capitalism

     By Ioannis Glinavos

     This work examines ideas about the role of law and legal reform in the creation of market economies, focusing on the process of post communist transition in Russia. Processes of transition in Russia were guided by a set of very specific neoliberal ideas about the nature of markets and capitalism,...

     Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
219. The Chronically Poor in Rural Bangladesh

     Livelihood Constraints and Capabilities

     By Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman, Noriatsu Matsui, Yukio Ikemoto

     Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

     This book examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households in Bangladesh, it provides an accurate portrait of the everyday situations faced by the rural poor in Bangladesh today, covering all aspects of household behaviour. All of the key issues...

     Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
220. Development in Practice (Routledge Revivals)

     Paved with good intentions

     By Doug Porter, Bryant Allen, Gaye Thompson

     The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent years, not least in its failure to fulfil even minimum goals. First published in 1991, Development in Practice explores the reasons for this projects failure, and looks at the lessons...

     Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge