Debt, Deficits and Exchange Rates presents recent work by Helmut Reisen on current international monetary problems in East Asia and Latin America. Written over the last four years, these papers are readily accessible and of immediate policy relevance. The first part is concerned with the debt...

This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...

This book combines currency matters with competitiveness considerations, with a view to raising the understanding of exchange rate dynamics and to analysing the role of exchange rates in reinforcing economic competitiveness

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Gustav Cassel (1916), 'The Present Situation of The Foreign Exchanges', Economic Journal, XXVI (101), March, 62-5 -- Gustav Cassel (1920), 'Further Observations on the World's Monetary Problem', Economic Journal, XXX (117), March, 39-45 -- Yihui Lan...

Combining critical perspectives with a positive contribution to economic policy, both national and international, this book considers the causes and consequences of recent financial crises presenting cutting-edge material. The editors bring together a number of well-known scholars to offer their...

The importance of agricultural growth to poverty reduction is well known, but the specific channels through which the poor can take advantage of growth require further research. Beyond Food Production takes on this challenge, investigating four important channels: rural labor markets, farm...

1. Introduction -- 2. Decoupling of environmental pressure from industrial growth, 1990-2002 -- 3. Heuristic model of EST adoption -- 4. Brazil -- 5. China -- 6. India -- 7. Kenya -- 8. Thailand -- 9. Tunisia -- 10. Viet Nam -- 11. Zimbabwe -- 13. Eight-country assessment of factors influencing...

pt. 1. Conceptualizing the influence of information technology on globalization -- pt. 2. Pro-poor modes of technical integration into the global economy -- pt. 3. Technology policy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Lance Taylor is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent development economists in the world and is known for his work on development planning, macroeconomics of development, stabilization policy, and the global economy. He has also been the major force behind structuralist economics,...

The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of topics varying from the general problems of growth and conservation to specific applications such as; pollution costs, environmental taxation, deforestation and climate change. This volume also offers policymakers a comprehensive view of the...