Arab economic integration

between hope and reality

Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Meeting these challenges requires ...

Practical microfinance

a training manual

Modern" or "new paradigm" microfinancial services are reaching perhaps as many as 20 million people worldwide. These services are being provided by existing banks which have added microfinance to their product portfolio, by specialized microfinance institutions (MFIs) and by non-governmental organization (NGOs) which offer microfinance ...

The welfare of food

rights and responsibilities in a changing world

Everyone needs reliable access to safe, appropriate and healthy food; yet despite regular public pronouncements and apparent commitments by states and institutions, the reality is very different for many consumers in both rich and poor countries. This book explains why, looking at the role of ...

New international poverty reduction strategies

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development policies. This book provides a critical analysis of the poverty reduction ...

International trade and developing countries

bargaining coalitions in GATT an WTO

This work provides a much-needed study of the bargaining coalitions of developing countries in the GATT and WTO. It traces, explains and theorises on the formation and achievements of coalitions from 1982 to the present day. Bargaining together in groups is common practice in international ...

Razones para la esperanza

en un futuro imperfecto

La revolución tecnológica y científica, el afianzamiento del sistema capitalista, dirigido al aumento del poder de los mercados en detrimento del de los estados, las guerras armadas y "frías" y el desmoronamiento de los regímenes comunistas, son los hechos que configuraron el siglo XX. Tras ...

¿Quién debe a quién?

deuda ecológica y deuda externa

La Deuda Externa no ha dejado de aumentar en los últimos años en el Sur, pero esta Deuda debe relacionarse de una vez por todas con la Deuda Ecológica. Este puede ser el gran debate del nuevo siglo. El peso del pago de la Deuda ...

Developement policy as public finance

How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost- benefit analysis as a ...

Development planning and poverty reduction

The aim of development is always poverty reduction but the devil is in the detail and planning impacts heavily on the results. This study examines and evaluates macroeconomic strategies and their effectiveness in truly reducing poverty

Between light and shadow

the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and International Human Rights Law

Much has been written on the human rights relevance and impacts of the policies and activities of the World Bank and IMF --or International Financial Institutions (IFIs). However while many of the human rights- based critiques of the Bank and Fund purport to link broadly ...

Globalisation, economic development and the role of the state

The role of the state continues to be a key debate in economics and development studies. Dr ha-Joon Chang has been one of the leading voices questioning the axiomatic wisdom of what is called the Washington Consensus "free market" view that the role of the ...

Bienes públicos globales, política económica y globalización

La política económica debe colaborar eficazmente a que la humanidad se sitúe y se mantenga en un ciclo continuado de crecimiento económico que no suponga sólo el bienestar de unos pocos. En este punto se pone de manifiesto el interés de contar con estudios claros ...

Unholy trinity

the IMF, World Bank and WTO

This work shows how the world's leading financial institutions - the IMF, World Bank and WTO - have been hijacked by the economic ideology of neoliberalism and the interest behind it, particularly from the 1980s onwards and in relation to their global financial, developmental and trade ...

Turismo

más allá del ocio y del negocio

En los últimos cien años el turismo se ha convertido en el negocio más importante del mundo, muy pocos países cuestionan que el sendero del desarrollo económico está asfaltado con los dólares del turismo. Se analiza por primera vez la estrecha relación entre el ámbito ...

Rural poverty, risk and development

Throughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failre and skill obsolescence. This volume investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development ...

Global markets and the developing economy

E.V.K. FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution. He suggests that a Keynesian approach is still relevant today when reformulated ...

The IMF and economic development

Why do governments turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with what effects? This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative on economic growth and income distribution. By bringing in the IMF ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Poverty and exclusion in North and South

essays on social policy and global poverty reduction

Since 1990 there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialized 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 ...

Effective domestic debt

management in developing countries

A compendium prepared by the Economic and Legal Advisory Services Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat