The world's trade regime is promoted by international agencies and most governments as the best way to lift the poor out of poverty and achieve sustainable development. But does it contribute to human development or not? This reassessment looks in detail at the way it has worked under the GATT...

Shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. This book focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis

This brand new collection of articles looks at both traditional concerns in economic development such as aid, debt and the role of the IMF, but also at gender, brain drain, military expenditure and postcolonial theory

Trade Policy in Developing Countries is aimed at academics, graduate students and professional, policy-oriented economists. It is the first work in the field to analyze trade policy in an integrated theoretical framework based on optimizing dynamic models that pay careful attention to the...

PREFACE -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- MAJOR FINDINGS -- U.S. Economic Assistance Overseas -- Public Knowledge and Attitudes About Global Demographic Trends -- Specific Issues -- Congressional Actions -- IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH COMMUNICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACRONYMS --...

The extensive reforms and liberalization of financial services in emerging markets worldwide call for cutting-edge strategies to capture the benefits of new investment opportunities. In Open Doors, a volume of papers from the third annual Financial Markets and Development conference,...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Part I Designing Policy for the Financial System -- Looking Back at the World BankÌs World Development Report 1989: Finance and Development -- From Good Bankers to Bad Bankers -- Impact of Early Financial Growth Strategies on Financial Structures...

Developing Countries, Agriculture and the WTO explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from a developing country perspective. The handbook is of particular interest for both developed and developing countries. Chapters cover market access, domestic support, export...

This collection of international case studies addresses the crucial issue of sustainable tourism development by asking what local communities can contribute to sustainable tourism, and what sustainability can offer communities in return