Poverty and Undernutrition

Peter Svedberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Almost 1 billion people suffer from undernutrition in developing countries. In this book, Professor Svedberg provides a detailed analytical study of u... Lees meer

Group Behaviour and Development

• Paperback | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency, and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why. It covers groups ... Lees meer

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Entrepreneurship and innovation are two of the most pervasive concepts of our times, yet there are still gaps in our understanding of the interactions... Lees meer

Dominating Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Investigating the ways development strategies have affected traditional cultural values and social practices, this scholarly and imaginative collectio... Lees meer

Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Redesigning access to land to increase efficiency and reduce poverty is back on the policy agenda. This book broadens the analysis of alternative opti... Lees meer

Fragile States

Wim Naude, Amelia U Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century. Many fragile states have turned into... Lees meer

New Sources of Development Finance

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• As their Millennium Development Goals, world leaders have pledged by 2015 to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger, to achie... Lees meer

The Role of the State in Economic Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• The role of the state has occupied center stage in the development of economics as an independent discipline and is one of the most contentious issues... Lees meer

Social Mobility in Developing Countries

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, ... Lees meer

Inequality, Growth, and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

• Paperback | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Based on an extensive review of relevant literature and an econometric analysis of inequality indexes, this volume provides the first systematic analy... Lees meer

Inequality and Growth in Modern China

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• This volume provides comprehensive updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Some of the methodologies developed herein are publishe... Lees meer

Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book co... Lees meer

Short-Term Capital Flows and Economic Crises

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• The currency crises that engulfed East Asian economies in 1997 and Mexico in 1994--and their high development costs--raise a serious concern about the... Lees meer

From Shock to Therapy

Grzegorz W Kolodko

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• This is the first comprehensive study of the economics and politics of postsocialism in thirty transition countries in Europe and Asia. The author, th... Lees meer

Linking the Formal and Informal Economy

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• more nolume brings together a significant new collection of studies on formality and informality in developing countries. Containing contributions fro... Lees meer

Development Success

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• What lessons can be learned from "developed" countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growt... Lees meer

From Conflict to Recovery in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• War has destroyed the hopes and lives of millions of Africans. How can we help Africa's communities to recover? How can we ensure that recovery from c... Lees meer

Linking the Formal and Informal Economy

• Paperback | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• The concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory and practice of development more than half a century after they were introduced into ... Lees meer

Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Many developing countries-Viet Nam included-continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process i... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Hunger

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered a... Lees meer

Inequality in the Developing World

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered a... Lees meer

The Role of Elites in Economic Development

• Paperback | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes. While a country's endowments constitute the deep determinates of growth, the trajectory... Lees meer

Mining for Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploit... Lees meer

Insurance Against Poverty

• Hardcover | Engels | Wider Studies in Development Economics
• Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insuranc... Lees meer