Priorities for Development Economics

Vulnerable People, Vulnerable States

Redefining the Development Challenge

By Daniel Bromley, Glen Anderson

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

Over five decades of economic and technical assistance to the countries of Africa and the Middle East have failed to improve the life prospects for over 1.4 billion people who remain vulnerable. Billions of dollars have been spent on such assistance and yet little progress has been made....

Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge

Uniting on Food Assistance

The Case for Transatlantic Cooperation

Edited by Christopher Barrett, Julia Steets, Andrea Binder

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

This book chronicles the most essential causes and implications of these trends, which have expanded international food assistance well beyond the simple shipment of donated food aid commodities. We pay particular attention to how these trends shape and are shaped by European Union (EU) and United...

Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

Land Reform in Developing Countries

Property Rights and Property Wrongs

By Michael Lipton

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

Published April 25th 2011 by Routledge

The Social Economics of Poverty

Edited by Christopher B. Barrett

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

A unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behaviour in developing countries, this book calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, and shows how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread...

Published September 21st 2005 by Routledge

Food Aid After Fifty Years

Recasting its Role

By Christopher B. Barrett, Dan Maxwell

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a...

Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge

Poverty and Exclusion in North and South

Essays on Social Policy and Global Poverty Reduction

Edited by Elizabeth Dowler, Paul Mosley

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

Over the past decade there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North...

Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge

The IMF and the Future

By Graham Bird

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

The International Monetary Fund has been criticised from both the right and the left of the political spectrum with the right arguing that it is too interventionist and creates more problems than it solves and the left on occasion demanding that it be abolished altogether. What seems almost beyond...

Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge

Econometrics and Data Analysis for Developing Countries

By Chandan Mukherjee, Howard White, Marc Wuyts

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

Getting accurate data on less developed countries has created great problems for studying these areas. Yet until recently students of development economics have relied on standard econometrics texts, which assume a Western context. Econometrics and Data Analysis for Developing Countries solves this...

Published December 17th 1997 by Routledge

Adjustment and Poverty

Options and Choices

By Frances Stewart

Series: Priorities for Development Economics

The last decade has brought sharp adjustment and rising poverty for most of the developing world. Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices examines the major causes and results of this situation, including: *the relationship between structural adjustment and poverty; *the extent to which the...

Published September 13th 1995 by Routledge