Breger Bush argues that derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal globalization for the poor.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Derivatives and Development: Contemporary Applications -- 3 Coffee, Derivatives, and Income Security: Theory and Practice -- 4 Coffee, Derivatives, and Poverty: A Global Commodity Chain Approach -- 5...

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