Development Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin

   The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia

   Edited by Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret, Gaël Raballand

   Series: Central Asia Research Forum

   The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006. This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

   Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity....

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. International Sports Events

   Impacts, Experiences and Identities

   Edited by Richard Shipway, Alan Fyall

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
4. Globalization, Labour Markets and Inequality in India

   By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. While the increased exposure to world markets (‘globalization’) and relaxation of domestic controls has undoubtedly given a spurt to the GDP growth rate,...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia

   Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism

   By Martin C. Spechler

   Series: Central Asia Research Forum

   This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without some of the neo-liberal reforms recommended by the "Washington Consensus" and with an authoritarian presidency, Uzbekistan, the largest of...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

   Whose Standards? Whose Development?

   Edited by Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, Ananya Reed

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Development on the Ground

   Clusters, Networks and Regions in Emerging Economies

   Edited by Allen J. Scott, Gioacchino Garofoli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Edited by two leading scholars who have been instrumental in the shaping of current thinking in the field of regional and industrial economics, this volume brings together a range of theoretical and empirical contributions that analyze and explain distinct patterns of regional development, and the...

   Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Macroeconomics and Markets in India

   Good Luck or Good Policy?

   Edited by Ashima Goyal

   India was one of the better performers after the global financial crisis, and has done well despite opening out in a period of great international volatility. This book asks if this was due to luck or to good management. How much did macroeconomic policy contribute and did it do as much as it could...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Environmental Scenario in India

   Successes and Predicaments

   Edited by Sacchidananda Mukherjee, Debashis Chakraborty

   India has moved along an impressive growth path over the last decade, marked with falling share of agriculture, stagnating manufacturing, expanding services segment, growing trade orientation, enhanced FDI inflows etc. The consequent growth implications are obvious as far as the numbers like GDP...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Carbon Markets or Climate Finance?

    Low Carbon and Adaptation Investment Choices for the Developing World

    Edited by Axel Michaelowa

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the challenges of climate finance in the context of the post-Copenhagen negotiations and provides a long-term outlook of how climate finance in...

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge