50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of Washington’s “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills. Here, the author argues, the insights provided by anthropological fieldwork have a crucial role to play.
Описание: This report is the first comprehensive framework on how to facilitate SMEs and LIDCs access to and upgrading within global value chains. It identifies policy interventions at the global level needed to support domestic reforms.
Описание: This book explores the role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Автор: Taghdisi-Rad Название: The Political Economy of Aid in Palestine ISBN: 1138862983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138862982 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Despite for many years receiving the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any lasting developmental outcomes and suffer from major weaknesses which undermine their very survival. This book argues that the dominant, mainstream approach to the study of aid and aid effectiveness is theoretically and empirically inadequate for a comprehensive understanding and analysis of the workings of aid in developing countries, particularly those undergoing conflict. This book examines the nature of donor operations in Palestine, highlighting the political and ideological determinants of aid allocation and effectiveness, and focussing on the role of trade-related donor assistance in Palestine, more commonly known as Aid for Trade. It discusses how such trade-related assistance is only another instance of donors working ‘around’ the conflict, as opposed to taking it into account; and how aid to Palestine cannot bring about significant improvement as long as the Palestinian economy is fundamentally affected by Israeli occupation, settlements and blockade. It argues that unless restructured and more carefully targeted, aid can only act as a temporary relief mechanism. Furthermore, the book sheds light on critical areas within Palestinian territories that are in need of development and require significant and immediate attention at both national and international level.
Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in economic benefits. But the country provides a puzzle: Thailand faced major security threats from colonial powers in the nineteenth century and from communism in the twentieth century, yet only in the latter case did the government respond with pro-development tactics.
In Land and Loyalty, Tomas Larsson argues that institutional underdevelopment may prove, under certain circumstances, a strategic advantage rather than a weakness and that external threats play an important role in shaping the development of property regimes. Security concerns, he find, often guide economic policy. The domestic legacies, legal and socioeconomic, resulting from state responses to the outside world shape and limit the strategies available to politicians. While Larsson's extensive archival research findings are drawn from Thai sources, he situates the experiences of Thailand in comparative perspective by contrasting them with the trajectory of property rights in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines.
Название: Rise and fall of global microcredit ISBN: 1138714089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138714083 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shines a light on many of the problems surrounding microcredit and microfinance, in particular the short and long-term impacts of dramatically rising levels of microdebt. Lively and provocative, The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit is an accessible guide for students, academics, policy-makers and development professionals alike.
Название: Rise and fall of global microcredit ISBN: 1138714127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138714120 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shines a light on many of the problems surrounding microcredit and microfinance, in particular the short and long-term impacts of dramatically rising levels of microdebt. Lively and provocative, The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit is an accessible guide for students, academics, policy-makers and development professionals alike.
Employing a novel collaborative transnational methodology, this ground-breaking book presents the first comprehensive and systematic comparison of Mexico and South Africa. Although geographically, historically and diplomatically far apart, Mexico and South Africa are ambitious and influential powers in the Global South and also experience wide-ranging domestic transitions. A binational team of 26 researchers from the two countries, all specialists in their respective disciplines, probe the transitions that Mexico and South Africa are undergoing in areas such as socio-cultural diversity, domestic politics, economic development, labour dynamics, social and territorial inequality, food security, crime and violence, and foreign relations. The detailed country studies allow the authors to identify striking similarities but also profound differences between the two societies. In so doing, the book helps to explain Mexico and South Africa to each other but also to the world at large.
Автор: Toyoda T., Nishikawa J., Sato H. Kan Название: Economic and Policy Lessons from Japan to Developing Countries ISBN: 1349337498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349337491 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan`s economic development over the last 150 years, and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic and foreign policy for the coming decades.
50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of Washington’s “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills. Here, the author argues, the insights provided by anthropological fieldwork have a crucial role to play.
Автор: Le Название: Trade Liberalisation and Poverty ISBN: 1138886742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138886742 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study uses Alan Winters` framework of studying trade liberalization as a major potential contributor to economic growth and development to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. With a focus on the microeconomic (household) level, it aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all four channels of the trade poverty nexus.
Автор: Le Название: Trade Liberalisation and Poverty ISBN: 1138317004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138317000 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study uses Alan Winters` framework of studying trade liberalization as a major potential contributor to economic growth and development to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. With a focus on the microeconomic (household) level, it aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all four channels of the trade poverty nexus.
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