1. The European economy in the late eighteenth century -- 2. Population growth and migration -- 3. Technological change -- 4. The French revolution and the continental system -- 5. The economic development of France 1815-70 -- 6. The economic development of Germany 1815-70 -- 7. The economic...

1. Success factors of microcredit : what can we learn for international development? / Farhad Hossain, Christopher Rees and Tonya Knight Millar -- 2. A short history of the Grameen Bank : from subsidized microcredit to market-based microfinance / David Hulme -- 3. Microcredit as a...

How does China's new growth model affect sub-Saharan Africa? To address this question, this paper first looks at the growing ties between China and Africa; attempts to estimate more precisely the impact on growth through the trade channel; and finally draws some policy implications regarding...

This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting policies and...