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

Recent ILO global child labour estimates point to important progress in the fight against child labour across most regions. But these figures predate the current global financial crisis. There are fears that that the crisis could slow or even reverse progress in the hardest hit countries. This...

This study identifies five distinctive stages of the current global financial crisis: the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market; spillovers into broader credit market; the liquidity crisis epitomized by the fallout of Northern Rock, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers with counterparty risk...

This study argues that the severity of the current global financial crisis is strongly influenced by changeable allocations of the global savings. This process is named a wandering asset bubbleʺ. Since its original outbreak induced by the demise of the subprime mortgage market and the...