Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Content -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- Section One -- Introduction -- Introduction and Framing the Problem of the State in Africa -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Framing the Problem of the State in Africa -- Chapter Three: Historical...

This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups...

Covers the influence of international public goods and landmark developments and assesses how they have affected Asia's development through the 'Golden' and 'Silver Ages' of economic development. It also considers the challenges for the continuation of a new 'Platinum Age' of development driven...

Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that...

Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with...

Global growth is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2015, but is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in 2016-17. Growth in developing countries and some high-income countries is set to disappoint again this year. The prospect of rising borrowing costs will compound the challenges many developing...

There has been a lot of research and criticism into the nature of Chinese investment in African countries in the past ten years. This Special Issue brings together a set of papers which highlights not only some (fair) criticisms but also the developmental benefits that such FDI has had in some...

Poverty: Malaise of Development features papers from a conference held at the University of Chester exploring how poverty undermines development strategies. This volume engages with three broad thematic areas, theoretical discourses and policy implications, vulnerability and poverty and...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Foreign Direct Investment in Low-Wage, Low-Skill Activities -- Improving the Treatment of Workers at the Bottom by Providing a Path Up from Below -- Core Standards for the Treatment of Workers around the...