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Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Developing Countries
A Study Prepared for the International Labour Office within the Framework of the World Employment Programme
Inbunden, 2010
997 kr
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Initially published in 1983, in association with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), this book is about the meaning, relevance and process of agrarian reform in contemporary developing countries. It includes seven detailed case studies – one each on Ethiopia, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Iran, …
Food and Poverty
The Political Economy of Confrontation
Av Radha Sinha
Inbunden, 2010
764 kr
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First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution of world resources. The book deals with the issue of malnutrition in the Third World, which owes much …
Food Aid and the Developing World
Four African Case Studies
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects. Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid from the UK, …
Green Revolution Revisited
Critique and Alternatives
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture …
Economics of Aid
Av J. M. Healey
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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First published in 1971, this reissue considers the main aspects of foreign aid to developing countries in terms of economic concepts and principles. The author gives an economic definition of aid and considers the motives for giving aid and the principles on which it may be allocated. He looks at …
Does Aid Work in India?
A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have …
OPEC Fund for International Development
The Formative Years
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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The OPEC countries’ collective policy is to offer external development assistance free from political or commercial ties, with the purpose of expressing the solidarity of one group of developing countries with the rest. Since 1976, this policy has found vigorous practical expression in the …
Aid and Inequality in Kenya
British Development Assistance to Kenya
Av Gerald Holtham, Arthur Hazelwood
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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This reissue, first published in 1976, considers the rapid rate of economic growth in Kenya, combined with its apparent political stability, to determine whether or not this is indeed a case of ‘growth without development’ and, if so, where the responsibility for aid lies in this situation.The book …
Aid and Dependence
British Aid to Malawi
Inbunden, 2010
764 kr
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First published in 1975, in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, this study examines the case for and against aid for developing nations, taking the specific example of British aid to Malawi’s economic development since independence in 1964. Kathryn Morton suggests that without …
Politics of United States Foreign Aid
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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First published in 1987, this reissue explores contemporary United States foreign aid policies and thinking in the Reagan era. The author argues that aid policy is often confused as a result of bureaucratic decision-making processes. The book contrasts the experience of the many countries where …
African Debt Crisis
Av Trevor W. Parfitt, Stephen P. Riley
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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Assessing both the macro- and micro-economic levels of the contemporary African Debt Crisis, this book, first published in 1989, begins by looking at the origins of the world debt crisis, and then looks closely at the problem as it affects Sub-Saharan Africa. The effects of debt on Africa’s …
Images and Behaviour of Private Bank Lending to Developing Countries
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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The primary questions addressed by this study, first published in 1988, focus on how private bankers made decisions on the creditworthiness of developing countries during the 1970s and what the implications of these decision rules are for the developing countries today. Based on interviews with …
Development and the Debt Trap
Economic Planning and External Borrowing in Ghana
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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Ghana is one of the earliest and most serious examples of the build up of foreign debt by a developing country to support its policies for economic growth. This study, first published in 1974 in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, analyses Ghana’s economy over twenty years and …
Population and Development
High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and …
Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World
Av Richard Anker, Marya Buvinic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between women’s roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and …
Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel
Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities
Inbunden, 2010
3063 kr
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This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst …
Politics of Family Planning in the Third World
Av T. E. Smith
Inbunden, 2010
3155 kr
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First published in 1973, this book is an attempt to examine the political determinants (as opposed to the more usual emphasis upon consequences) of contemporary population policy formation and action in developing countries, with particular reference to policy relating to family limitation.
African Environments and Resources
Av L. A. Lewis, L. Berry
Inbunden, 2010
2132 kr
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First published in 1988, this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. Beginning with an overview of the geographical and environmental history of …
Development and the Environmental Crisis
Red or Green Alternatives
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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First published in 1984, Michael Redclift’s book makes the global environmental crisis a central concern of political economy and its structural causes a central concern of environmentalism.Michael Redclift argues that a close analysis of the environmental crisis in the South reveals the importance …
Learning From China?
Development and Environment in Third World Countries
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples’ Republic of China. It covers industrialisation, food production, energy use and landscape and settlement planning. The …
Factors in Economic Development
Inbunden, 2010
3063 kr
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First published in 1961, this work is a compendium of essays written by esteemed economist Sir Alexander Cairncross, pertaining to the theme of economic development. A wide cross-section of factors are taken into account in this extensive collection of articles, amongst which are the importance of …
Fiscal Policy in Underdeveloped Countries
With Special Reference to India
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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Originally published in 1960, with a second edition in 1969, this book is of special interest for having been the first systematic attempt to discuss problems of fiscal policy from the point of view of promoting economic growth in underdeveloped countries. It deals mainly with problems of tax …
Black Africa 1945-1980
Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid and sustained economic development in Africa for the most part disappointed? This title, originally …
Theories of Economic Development and Growth
Inbunden, 2010
1566 kr
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First published in 1966, this work summarises the theories of economic growth, both ancient and modern, and presents them in a form particularly suitable for university students, both in the developing world and elsewhere. The objective is to enable students to assess the major factors making for …
Economic Development in East Asia
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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First published in 1967, this influential study reviews the economic development of 15 countries from East Asia in the period between 1945 and 1965. It deals with a wide variety of factors influencing the development of the region, including the influence of foreign governments (both international …
Persistent Underdevelopment
Change and Economic Modernization in the West Indies
Av Jay Mandle
Inbunden, 2010
787 kr
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First published in 1996, this insightful and informative text examines the post-emancipation and recent economic history of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Jay R. Mandle offers an explanation of the region’s continuing underdevelopment. Through the use of an analytical framework derived from the works …
Patterns of Caribbean Development
An Interpretive Essay on Economic Change
Av Jay Mandle
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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First published in 1982, this study attempts to put contemporary Caribbean development into historical perspective. By first constructing a Marxist framework for the study of development , Jay Mandle assesses the reasons why the region emerged underdeveloped and evaluates post-world-war two efforts …
Theory and Experience of Economic Development
Essays in Honour of Sir Arthur Lewis
Av Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3155 kr
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This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis, 1979 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The authors, an international group of distinguished scholars, address a varied set of specific issues reflecting Professor Lewis’ …
Export-Oriented Industrialisation
The ASEAN Experience
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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First published in 1985, this study is a comparative examination of industrialisation and industrial policy from the early 1960s to the early 1980s in the five original member countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN): namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore …
Industrial Structure and Policy in Less Developed Countries
Av Colin Kirkpatrick, N. Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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First published in 1984, this textbook analyses, at both aggregate and micro economic levels, the contemporary industrial conditions in Third World countries and relates this to the process of economic growth and structural transformation.Drawing upon both industrial and development economics, the …
