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With contributions from leading experts in the field, this work explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries.

The history of economic ideas and their intricate relation to economic policies remains a relatively unexplored field in Latin American and Caribbean studies. This book is a useful contribution to this literature.

Looking at the way the nature of famine is changing in the face of globalization and shifting geo-political forces, this book includes analysis of food scarcity in North Korea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Malawi and less well known cases in Madagascar, Iraq and Bosnia. It is useful for those in the fields of development studies and political economics.

Challenging assumptions about the benefits of specific development practices, this book provides readers with an overview of how competing frameworks have developed and the ways that specific development practices reflect specific understandings of the main debates. It offers a historical overview of attempts to achieve economic development.

Examines the impact of international debt relief efforts since 1990. This book assesses whether the various debt relief modalities have enhanced economic growth in eight indebted countries in Latin America and Africa. It includes eight country studies, a literature survey, econometric study and a study of the debt relief policies.

Examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households in Bangladesh, this book provides a portrait of the everyday situations faced by the rural poor in Bangladesh, covering various aspects of household behaviour including health, nutrition, housing conditions, and household asset and liabilities.

Examining institutions, this book provides a survey of the inter-relationship between trade-induced economic growth and the environment and its impact on the global quest for sustainable development. It covers contemporary developments on both a global and regional level and examines the United Nation's approach to sustainable development.

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 new economy is characterized in the developing world by open capital markets and coordinated international regulation

A critical issue in law reform is why so many law reform projects in developing economies are regarded by their sponsors and recipients as unsuccessful. This book looks at law reform projects in post-socialist and post-authoritarian states in Asia, identifies common problems, and, proposes analytical frameworks for understanding these problems.

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.

Tackles the subjects of the Millennium Development Goals accepted by the UN in 2000, along with the targets set by the OECD in 1996.

This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary.

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

This book examines Thailand's fifty-five years of experience in macroeconomic management and provides valuable lessons for emerging economies on what can done to avoid economic instability. It examines how short-term complications can develop into perennial problems obstructing the process of economic development.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition in women and children in India. The linkages are cogently explored and connected to the Sustainable Development Goals.

This book presents a broad framework which could enable us to pursue the challenging goal of full, productive employment in developing countries. It revisits the conceptual foundations of full employment, and carefully examines the issue of suitable indicators for monitoring progress.

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.

Access to justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under a wide body of international, regional and domestic laws. This book brings together contributors to explore and analyze the issue of gendered access to justice, poverty and disempowerment across Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.

This book is an edited volume which contains empirical studies on determinants of poverty and its reduction in Africa. It looks at multidimensional measures of poverty, production and productivity related factors, policies influencing poverty and random, hazardous but preventive factors influencing poverty levels and their reduction.

This book is an edited volume which contains empirical studies on determinants of poverty and its reduction in Africa. It looks at multidimensional measures of poverty, production and productivity related factors, policies influencing poverty and random, hazardous but preventive factors influencing poverty levels and their reduction.

Written by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, this book gives an insight into the implications of new and emerging technologies in development evaluation.

This brand new collection of articles looks at both traditional concerns in economic development such as aid, debt and the role of the IMF, but also at gender, brain drain, military expenditure and postcolonial theory.

This essential reference work reflects topical trends of thought and identifies prevailing problems and solutions. The first half focuses on economic growth and the second examines the role of the state versus the market.

This book draws together a set of topical writings on the subject of microcredit that will be of relevance to the work of both researchers and practitioners in the field. In drawing on the experiences of authors from countries and regions throughout the globe, including Cambodia, Barbados and the Caribbean, Mexico, Pakistan, India and Africa, the book examines the subject of microcredit from various perspectives.