Introduction -- Competition and innovation -- Designing competition policy -- Technological and trade competitiveness -- Why regulatory governance matters -- Regulatory policy transfer -- Regulating utilities in developing countries -- Problems of utility privatisation -- Regulating through...

This collection draws together contemporary articles on development economics. Ideal for students with little or no background in economics, it covers a range of themes including poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first...