Routledge Studies in Development Economics
About the Book Series
The last decade has seen dramatic changes in the economic position of developing countries. A minority of middle-income countries, especially in Asia, have fared relatively well. This has led some economists and policy makers to argue that other developing countries need to adopt the same policies of export led growth. However the results of this have been disappointing and many of the world's poorest countries have seen their positions decline in both relative and absolute terms. This series presents accounts of the present position of, and future prospects for, the developing countries.
The Service Sector and Economic Development in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Evelyn Wamboye, Peter Nyaronga
September 30, 2020
The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations. Yet there has been little research uncovering its scope, potential and implications on sustained and inclusive economic growth. This is especially true ...
A History of Development Economics Thought: Challenges and Counter-challenges
1st Edition
By Shahrukh Rafi Khan
December 12, 2019
This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics. Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew inspiration from classical political economists, this book opens with a review of ...
African Industrial Development and European Union Co-operation: Prospects for a reengineered partnership
1st Edition
Edited
By Francis Matambalya
December 12, 2019
Of the 54African states, only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries. The economic activities in Africa are still dominated by the production and trade of agricultural and mineral commodities. This situation is ...
Capabilities, Innovation and Economic Growth: Policymaking for Freedom and Efficiency
1st Edition
By Michele Capriati
December 12, 2019
The question of whether we can foster growth and innovation while promoting individual freedoms poses a challenge for everyone studying and working on innovation and development policies. Whilst innovation literature is largely dominated by a focus on efficiency, development literature tends to ...
Development Management: Theory and practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain, Asad K. Ghalib, Christopher J. Rees, Aminu Mamman
December 12, 2019
Despite significant financial investments, the rate of development and pace of poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries has not always matched expectations. Development management typically involves complex interactions between governmental and non-governmental organisations, ...
Economic Complexity and Human Development: How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare
1st Edition
By Dominik Hartmann
December 12, 2019
This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development. While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex ...
Employment Policy in Emerging Economies: The Indian Case
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Hill, Amitendu Palit
December 12, 2019
Employment is a critical part of the macro-economy and a key driver of economic development. India’s employment policy over the past three decades provides an important case study for understanding how government attitudes to the labour market contribute to an emerging economy’s growth and ...
Employment and Inclusive Development
1st Edition
By Rizwanul Islam, Iyanatul Islam
December 12, 2019
Issues relating to employment and labour have once again come to the fore of global policy debates in the wake of the widespread unemployment that has accompanied the current financial crisis. In the developing world, there is a growing realization that productive employment promotion and social ...
Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt, Peter Knorringa
December 12, 2019
This edited collection examines the globally rising phenomenon of civic innovation. Combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, this book defines the dynamic and complex process of civic innovation as the multiple economic, political and social processes where peoples, organizations, ...
Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development: Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India
1st Edition
By Anant Kamath
December 12, 2019
This book offers an innovative examination of how ‘low–technology’ industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In doing ...
Inequality in Economics and Sociology: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Gilberto Antonelli, Boike Rehbein
December 12, 2019
Inequality remains one of the most intensely discussed topics on a global level. As well as figuring prominently in economics, it is possibly the most central topic of sociology. Despite this, there has been no book until now that unites approaches from economics and sociology.Organized ...
Institutional Innovation and Change in Value Chain Development: Negotiating tradition, power and fragility in Afghanistan
1st Edition
By Holly A. Ritchie
December 12, 2019
George Bernard Shaw once said that reasonable people adapt themselves to the world but unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves. In a sense, this book explores how these so-called ‘unreasonable people’ may interact to re-fashion the world around them in fragile economic development. ...