Development Economics
The Economic Development of Latin America Since Independence
Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place.
Development Economics
Law and Economics with Chinese Characteristics: Institutions for Promoting Development in the Twenty-First Century
Explores how the lessons of the Chinese market economy might help policymakers in other countries to achieve equitable and sustained development
Provides a critique of the prevailing law and economics doctrines that have been influential in shaping legal doctrines and institutions around the world.
Development Economics
Intellectual Property Rights
This volume, first, addresses from different angles the effects of IPR on the processes of innovation and innovation diffusion in general, and with respect to developing countries in particular.
Development Economics
Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa
This book explores the vital role that active government policies can play in transforming African economies.
Global Financial Regulation
Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis
Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt.
Development Economics
Good Growth and Governance in Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies
Why has the economic growth performance of Sub-Saharan Africa been disappointing on balance over the past 50 years? More importantly, what can be done to reverse that trend and to sustain and improve upon the accelerated growth experienced in recent years? What are the possibilities and policies for Africa to Read more…
Business & Society
Overcoming Developing Country Debt Crises
Developing country debt crises have been a recurrent phenomenon over the past two centuries. In recent times sovereign debt insolvency crises in developing and emerging economies peaked in the 1980s and, again, from the middle 1990s to the start of the new millennium. Despite the fact that several developing countries Read more…
Business & Society
Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis
The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, has spread to developing countries and has turned into a global financial meltdown. Governments and Central Banks—though taking many and costly measures—seem powerless to stop the crisis. In light of this major global crisis that is hurting economies across the Read more…
Development Economics
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach
Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy’s strength Read more…