Provides a unique treatment of world economic geography as a whole and examines the principle philosophies that have shaped our study of it, identifies the importance of the biophysical as well as cultural and political environments

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- 1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- Towards an international economy -- Colonialism -- Emigration and the export of capital -- Why did not all countries develop? -- Economic development between the wars -- A world order comes into being -- The...

The need for a pro-active more focused and more effective global mechanism to identify, control and mitigate the impact of economic and financial crisis has increasingly been felt over the last two decades. It got reinforced by not so effective IMF in terms of crisis control and mitigation as...