Suchergebnisse

Collective values, behavioural norms and rules: building institutions for economic growth and poverty reduction / Ke-young Chu -- Institutional capital and poverty: a transition perspective / Syed Ahsan -- Why is so little spent on educating the poor? / Tony Addison and Aminur Rahman -- The fragility of empirical links between inequality, trade liberalization, growth and poverty / Jennifer Mbabazi, Oliver Morrissey and Chris Milner -- Convergence clubs in cross-country life expectancy dynamics / David Mayer-Foulkes -- Reaching the poor: fine-tuning poverty targeting using a poverty map of Mozambique / Orlando San Martin -- Poverty, growth and redistribution: a case-study of Iran / Ahmad Assadzadeh and Satya Paul -- How economic growth reduces poverty: a general equilibrium analysis for Indonesia / George Fane and Peter Warr -- Poverty, inequality and growth in Zambia during the 1990s / Neil McCulloch, Bob Baulch and Milasoa Cherel-Robson -- Gender and education as determinants of household poverty in Nigeria / Christiana Okojie.

The Financial Crisis and Developing Countries discusses and analyses regional and country specific impacts of the financial crisis in emerging markets and developing countries, covering all continents. Using heterodox and mainstream methodologies, the book develops a multidisciplinary perspective on the crisis phenomenon as it examines how the crisis changes concepts of development, critically discusses the mainstream approach, analyses (global) governance issues (including the G20) and shows the actual impact for the poor and crisis vulnerable

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I DEBT CRISIS IN THE THIRD WORLD -- Chapter 1 The Outlook for Development -- Chapter 2 External Shocks, Adjustment, and Income Distribution -- Chapter 3 Losers Pay Reparations, Or How the Third World Lost the Lending War -- PART II THE DEBT CRISIS AND COMMERCIAL BANKS -- Chapter 4 Background to the Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment in the Financial Markets -- Chapter 5 Safe Passage Through Dire Straits: Managing an Orderly Exit from the Debt Crisis -- PART III STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: SOLUTION OR PART OF THE PROBLEM -- Chapter 6 World Bank-Supported Adjustment Programs -- Chapter 7 Assessing Structural Adjustment Programs: A Summary of Country Experience -- Chapter 8 Undervaluation, Adjustment, and Growth -- Chapter 9 Old Wine in New Bottles: Policy-Based Lending in the 1980s -- PART IV STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: IMPACT IN THE THIRD WORLD -- Chapter 10 Social Costs of Adjustment in Latin America -- Chapter 11 Political Change and Economic Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in 1988 -- Chapter 12 The Demise of the Labor Aristocracy in Africa: Structural Adjustment in Tanzania -- PART V SEEKING A SOLUTION -- Chapter 13 Facing the Realities of the Debt Crisis -- Chapter 14 From Adjustment with Recession to Adjustment with Growth -- Chapter 15 From Adjustment and Restructuring to Development -- Chapter 16 Is to Forgive the Debt Divine? -- Chapter 17 Foreign Lending at the Brink -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor