1. Introduction / Penelope Simons -- 2. Talisman in Sudan / Audrey Macklin -- 3. The governance gap : multistakeholder and intergovernmental initiatives / Penelope Simons -- 4. The governance gap : domestic laws and other governance mechanisms / Penelope Simons -- 5. Extractive industries, human...

Wie eine Reihe anderer Veröffentlichungen zum Thema und auch das kürzlich breit empfohlene "Handbuch Welternährung" (ID-A 9/11) kommt auch der jüngste Lagebericht des renommierten Worldwatch Institute (vgl. zuletzt "Zur Lage der Welt 2010", BA 5/10) zu der Einschätzung, dass die Erde alle...

Economists and policymakers are still trying to understand the lessons recent financial crises in Asia and other emerging market countries hold for the future of the global financial system. In this timely and important volume, distinguished academics, officials in multilateral organizations,...

Some scholars argue that the free movement of capital across borders enhances welfare; others claim it represents a clear peril, especially for emerging nations. In Capital Controls and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies, an esteemed group of contributors examines both the advantages and the...

The 1990s witnessed several acute currency crises among developing nations that invariably spread to other nearby at-risk countries. These episodes—in Mexico, Thailand, South Korea, Russia, and Brazil—were all exacerbated by speculative foreign investments and high-volume movements of...

The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. The chronic poverty of many nations affects more than the citizens and economies of those nations; it threatens global stability as the pressures of immigration become unsustainable and...

Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that...

1. Faces of the poor -- 2. The Poverty Obliteration Paradigm (POP) -- 3. The potential double impact of tourism development and poverty reduction -- 4. The power of tourism in poverty alleviation : the empirical nexus tourism, growth, inequality and poverty -- 5. Tourism and poverty intensity --...