Development economics Books

Book SynopsisChoice Experiments in Developing Countries is an invaluable one-stop presentation of the best-practice case studies implementing the choice experiment method in developing countries. It highlights the theoretical and practical issues that should be taken into consideration when applying this method in a developing country context.The expert contributors gather recent state-of-the-art choice experiment studies undertaken in several developing countries, in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. These focus on a variety of environmental and agricultural issues, underlining the versatility of this method in valuing a wide array of interventions (for example policies, public and private services, new technologies) and emphasizing the value of the method in informing efficient, effective and equitable policies for sustainable economic development.This work will be of great interest to academics and researchers of environmental economics, agricultural and resource economics, development, environmental management and planning, as well as national and international development agencies and NGOs. Civil servants and policymakers in developing countries will find the work and recommendations within this book engaging and inspirational.Trade Review‘Overall, this book is a wide-ranging compilation of choice experiment studies in developing countries. . . we hope that the applications of choice modelling techniques in this volume help convince researchers that asking poor respondents in developing countries complex questions about their preferences is feasible and encourages researchers to tackle more complex research protocols deigned to improve the accuracy and reliability of respondents answers to questions in choice experiments.’ -- From the foreword by W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz and D. WhittingtonTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction: The Roles and Significance of Choice Experiments in Developing Country Contexts Jeff Bennett and Ekin Birol PART I: USING CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO INVESTIGATE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRADE-OFFS 2. A Choice Experiment of Human–Elephant Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka Roy Brouwer, Wolfgang Haider, Lokugam Gunaratne and Ben Beardmore 3. Using Choice Experiments to Estimate Wetland Values in Viet Nam: Implementation and Practical Issues Thang Nam Do and Jeff Bennett 4. Fishing Permit Price and Wetland Conservation: A Choice Experiment on the Value of Improved Environmental Quality of Lake Awassa, Ethiopia Girma G. Selassie and Yiannis Kountouris 5. Researcher-Selected versus Respondent-Selected Attributes: Improved Coastal Water Quality in Tobago Nesha Beharry-Borg and Riccardo Scarpa PART II: USING CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO INVESTIGATE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRADE-OFFS: THE CASE OF CHINA’S SLOPING LAND CONVERSION PROGRAMME 6. Estimating the Non-market Environmental Benefits of Land Use Change in China Xuehong Wang, Jeff Bennett, Chen Xie and Zhitao Zhang 7. Assessing the Sustainability of the Sloping Land Conversion Programme: A Choice Experiment Approach Pauline Grosjean, Andreas Kontoleon and Shiqiu Zhang PART III: USING CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO ESTIMATE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES’ VALUATION OF UNIQUE ECOSYSTEMS 8. Non-use Values of Ecosystems Dependent on the Indus River, Pakistan: A Spatially Explicit, Multi-ecosystem Choice Experiment Ali Dehlavi, Ben Groom, Babar Naseem Khan and Amna Shahab 9. Ecosystem Service Valuation of Ruil (Nothofagus Alessandrii) Forests in Central Chile: An Application of the Choice Experiment Method Pablo Villalobos and Carlos Huenchuleo PART IV: USING CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO INFORM EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT PROVISION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOODS AND SERVICES 10. Informing Efficient Solid Waste Management to Improve Local Environmental Quality and Public Health in West Bengal, India Sukanya Das, Ekin Birol and Rabindra N. Bhattacharya 11. Farmers’ Choice between Public Goods and Agricultural Extension Packages in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Analysis Alemu Mekonnen, Mahmud Yesuf, Fredrik Carlsson and Gunnar Köhlin 12. Valuing Preferences for Ecotourism in the Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia Ou Ratanak and Mitsuyasu Yabe PART V: USING CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO INFORM THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND FOOD INDUSTRY 13. Farmer Preferences for Bt Maize, Seed Information and Credit in the Philippines Jose Yorobe Jr, Ekin Birol and Melinda Smale 14. Using Choice Experiments to Investigate Preferences for Cattle Traits in Kenya Eric Ruto and Riccardo Scarpa 15. Developing Country Consumers’ Demand for Food Safety and Quality: Is Mumbai Ready for Certified and Organic Fruits? Devesh Roy, Ekin Birol, Katharina Deffner and Bhushana Karandikar 16. Rural Consumers’ Preferences for Banana Attributes in Uganda: Is There a Market for GM Staples? Enoch Kikulwe, Ekin Birol, José Falck-Zepeda and Justus Wesseler 17. Concluding Remarks and Recommendations for Implementing Choice Experiments in Developing Countries Ekin Birol and Jeff Bennett Index

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Book SynopsisThis title brings together the most significant modern contributions to the literature on globalization and inequality. The editor's selection, set in context by an authoritative introduction, uses broad analyses and important case studies to illustrate the impact on levels of inequality of previous periods of globalization and of the current era of globalization. The research review further focuses on the issues of openness and inequality, and concludes with several benchmark papers that examine global levels of inequality. This timely book will be an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with this vital relationship, including teachers, doctoral students and researchers.Trade Review‘This outstanding book maps the debates about globalization and inequality: how globalization impacts national inequality and how an open global economy shapes inequality within and across the borders of states. Branko Milanovic’s collection will become the authoritative source on these complex issues.’ -- David Held, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Branko Milanovic PART I PAST GLOBALIZATION(S) AND INEQUALITY 1. François Bourguignon and Christian Morrisson (2002), ‘Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820–1992’ 2. Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2003), ‘Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?’, and Lant Pritchett, ‘Comment’ 3. Jeffrey G. Williamson (1997), ‘Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present’ 4. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez (2006), ‘The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective’ PART II NATIONAL INEQUALITIES IN THE CURRENT ERA OF GLOBALIZATION 5. Martin Ravallion (2003), ‘Inequality Convergence’ 6. Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Tony Addison and Sampsa Kiiski (2004), ‘Income Distribution Changes and Their Impact in the Post-Second World War Period’ 7. Andrea Brandolini and Timothy M. Smeeding (2006), ‘Patterns of Economic Inequality in Western Democracies: Some Facts on Levels and Trends’ 8. Sebastian Leitner and Mario Holzner (2008), ‘Economic Inequality in Central, East and Southeast Europe’ 9. Leonardo Gasparini, Guillermo Cruces and Leopoldo Tornarolli (2011), ‘Recent Trends in Income Inequality in Latin America’ 10. Angus Deaton and Jean Dreze (2002), ‘Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination’ 11. Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang (2005), ‘Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: a Journey Through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness’ PART III OPENNESS AND INEQUALITY 12. Matthew Higgins and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2002), ‘Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, and Openness’ 13. Antonio Spilimbergo, Juan Luis Londoño and Miguel Székely (1999), ‘Income Distribution, Factor Endowments, and Trade Openness’ 14. Steve Dowrick and Jane Golley (2004), ‘Trade Openness and Growth: Who Benefits?’ 15. Branko Milanovic (2005), ‘Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Budget Surveys’ 16. Julien Gourdon, Nicolas Maystre and Jaime de Melo (2008), ‘Openness, Inequality and Poverty: Endowments Matter’ PART IV GLOBAL INEQUALITY 17. Branko Milanovic (2006), ‘Global Income Inequality: A Review’ 18. Branko Milanovic (2002), ‘True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculation Based on Household Surveys Alone’ 19. Xavier Sala-i-Martin (2006), ‘The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and …Convergence, Period’ 20. Bob Sutcliffe (2004), ‘World Inequality and Globalization’ 21. Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini (2010), ‘On Analyzing the World Distribution of Income’ 22. Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal (2008), ‘What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality?’

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Book Synopsis`The region-specific nature of economic success matters in urban and rural regions alike, as this volume illustrates with a wide-ranging set of theoretical perspectives and empirical studies. The authors in this collection provide fresh ideas and new insights into a concept "endogenous development" that remains central to understading regional development.'---Ed Malecki, The Ohio State University, USAIncreasingly, endogenous factors and processes are being emphasized as drivers in regional economic development and growth. This 15 chapter book is unique in that it commences by presenting five disciplinary takes on endogenous development from the perspectives of economics, geography, sociology, planning and organizational management.Several chapters demonstrate how researchers have developed operational models to investigate the roles played by endogenous factors in regional ecocnomic development, including the role of entrepreneurial rents. Further chapters provide empirical investigations of endogenous factors in regional development at various levesl of spatial scale - from the supra-region to the nation, city and small town - and in a variety of situational settings, including the European Union, Asia and Australia.The book is an invaluable up-to-date resources for researchers and students in regional science, and regional economic development and planning.Trade Review‘The region-specific nature of economic success matters in urban and rural regions alike, as this volume illustrates with a wide-ranging set of theoretical perspectives and empirical studies. The authors in this collection provide fresh ideas and new insights into a concept “endogenous development” that remains central to understanding regional development.’ -- Ed Malecki, The Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Robert Stimson, Roger Stough and Peter Nijkamp 1. Endogenous Regional Development Robert Stimson, Roger Stough and Peter Nijkamp 2. The Economist’s Perspective on Regional Endogenous Development Kenneth Button 3. Endogenous Regional Theory: A Geographer’s Perspective and Interpretation Michael Taylor and Paul Plummer 4. Endogenous Rural Development from a Sociological Perspective Frank Vanclay 5. Rural, Urban or Regional Endogenous Development as the Core Concept in the Planning Profession Edward Blakely 6. Diversity and Endogeny in Regional Development: Applying Appreciative Intelligence Tojo Thatchenkery and Jessica Heineman-Pieper 7. An Exploratory Approach to Model Determinants of Endogenous Regional Growth Performance Robert Stimson and Roger Stough 8. A Theory of Entrepreneurial Rents in Endogenous Growth: Implications for Regional Innovation Policies Zoltan Acs and Mark Sanders 9. Foreign Direct Investment, Knowledge Assets and the Economic Geography of Growth in the Asian BRIICS Countries Tomokazu Arita, Chie Iguchi and Philip McCann 10. Implications of European Union Structural Assistance to New Member States on Regional Disparities: The Question of Absorption Capacity Daniela Constantin, Zizi Goschin and Gabriela Dragan 11. Macroeconomic and Territorial Policies for Regional Competitiveness: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the EU Roberto Camagni and Roberta Capello 12. Endogenous Employment Growth and Decline in Australian Capital City Statistical Divisions Alistair Robson 13. A Case Study Approach to Investigating Local Development Initiatives in Rural Small Towns in Victoria John Martin 14. Economic Development Incentives and the Measurement of Local Endogenous Growth: Is There a Need for Modeling Adjustment? Terry Clower 15. Regional Growth and Development Theories Revisited Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp Index

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Book SynopsisTrade as an engine of growth has played a catalyst role in East Asian development; through vigorous study of performances in past decades, East Asian trade and industrialization experiences may offer some lessons for other developing countries. This book covers trade and industrial structures for ten countries and regions including Japan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. The author addresses the comparative advantages and trade similarity indices of Asian economies from regional and global perspectives. He also analyzes the impacts of regional trade agreements from both member and non-member countries' perspectives. After a vigorous examination of the sources of export growth by the methodology of the constant market share analysis, the book examines the trade-investment nexus, the development of fragmentation of manufacturing production, and trade in parts and components as the dominant trade flows after the mid-1980s. It then studies the trade complementarity index among countries to further pursue the analysis of natural trading partners, and looks at the Krugman-Baldwin hub-spoke thesis by empirically identifying the 'degree of hub-ness' in three major markets in China, Japan, and the USA. Various scenarios of economic integration in East Asia are assessed and an open regionalism is proposed for East Asian economic integration and sustainable development in the conclusion of the book. Students and researchers of international trade, economic development, and Asian Studies will find the data and analyses in the volume invaluable in understanding the economic development of the Asia Pacific.Trade Review‘Chow’s book provides a comprehensive description of trade and foreign direct investment in East Asian economies by using a wide variety of trade-related indexes and regression analysis. Such detailed analysis is also complemented with an interesting narrative of institutional building for economic integration in East Asia. Thus, the book offers an invaluable reference and insights not only for those who are interested in the success of East Asian economies but also for those who plan to conduct an economic analysis on the East Asian model of economic development.’ -- Kiyoyasu Tanaka, The Developing Economies‘. . . this volume will be of interest to researchers interested in applying the standard tools of quantitative international economics to East Asian development experiences.’ -- Hal Hill, Economic RecordTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. East Asian Models of Development 2. Catching up or Falling Behind Hypothesis I: Trade Competitiveness between the Leader and Followers on All Manufactured Exports 3. Catching up or Falling Behind Hypothesis II: Trade Competitiveness on Exports by Technology Levels between the Leader and Followers 4. Trade Similarity Index and the Level of Development 5. The Dynamics of Changing Trade Structures: Export Sophisticated Index 6. Sources of Export Growth: A Constant Market Share Analysis 7. Trade–Investment Nexus and Intra-Industry Trade 8. Is East Asia a “Natural Trade Bloc”? The Trade Complementarity Index, the Intensity Index, and the Bias Index 9. East Asian Economic Integration and its Impacts on Regional and Global Economies 10. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThe Financial Crisis and Developing Countries is an invaluable discussion and analysis of the regional and country specific impacts of the financial crisis in both emerging markets and developing countries. Using heterodox and mainstream methodologies, the book develops a multidisciplinary perspective on the crisis, showing empirical impacts on the poor and vulnerable. It examines how the crisis continues to change our concepts of development, critically discusses mainstream approaches, and analyses (global) governance responses including of the G20. The contributors critically assess the measures taken to deal with the crisis, and reveal that many elements that have led to crisis (inequality, inappropriate international financial architecture, structural imbalances) have not been dealt sufficiently, and as a result new crises will continue to emerge. Exploring a global and inter-disciplinary view, this timely book provides accessible information on the impact of the crisis that will prove relevant for students of development studies and international economics. Researchers and policymakers including in foreign and economic affairs, development cooperation, and international institutions interested in understanding the impact of the global economy will also find much to learn from this important book. Contributors: F. Cheru, H. Clemens, A. de Haan, A.M. Fischer, J. Ghosh, S. Gong, D. Green, K. Jansen, A. Kapoor, R. King, R. Marconi, M. Messkoub, S.M. Murshed, F.B. Schiphorst, K.A. Siegmann, M. Spoor, P.A.G. van Bergeijk, R. van der Hoeven, I. van Staveren, R. Vos, B. WhiteTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Crisis? What Crisis? For Whom? Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Arjan de Haan and Rolph van der Hoeven PART I: THE CRISIS AND CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT 2. Re-orienting Development in Uncertain Times Jayati Ghosh 3. How Have Poor Women and Men Experienced the Global Economic Crisis: What Have We Learned? Duncan Green and Richard King 4. After the Gold Rush: Prospects for Africa, Economic Recovery and Long-term Growth Fantu Cheru 5. A Historical Ethnography of Recessions: Crises in Yogyakarta Ben White PART II: HETERODOX (POLITICAL) ECONOMIC INTERPRETATIONS 6. Chinese Savings Gluts or Northern Financialisation? The Ideological Expediency of Crisis Narratives Andrew Martin Fischer 7. Short- and Long-run Macroeconomic Effects of Keynesian Trade Policies in the Presence of Debt Servicing Syed Mansoob Murshed 8. FDI Volatility and Development Irene van Staveren 9. Financial Globalization, Current Crisis and Labour in Developing Countries Rolph van der Hoeven PART III: REGIONAL AND COUNTRY EXPERIENCES 10. Impact of the Global Crises (Financial, Economic and Food): The Case of Microfinance in Latin America Reynaldo Marconi and Harry Clemens 11. Crisis, Employment and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa Mahmood Messkoub 12. Crisis and Exclusionary Growth in Europe’s ‘East’ Max Spoor 13. The Crisis in South Asia: From Jobless Growth to Jobless Slump? Karin Astrid Siegmann 14. Diamonds are for Never: The Economic Crisis and the Diamond Polishing Industry in India Astha Kapoor 15. Defending Vulnerable Workers in South Africa after the Crisis: What Role for COSATU? Freek B. Schiphorst 16. How China Managed the Impact of the Financial Crisis: Globalization and Public Policy Responses in an Emerging Economy Arjan de Haan and Sen Gong 17. Thailand From Crisis to Crisis: Do We Ever Learn? Karel Jansen PART IV: PREPARING FOR THE NEXT CRISIS? 18. The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Globalization Rob Vos References Index

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Book Synopsis`Some think that decentralization has not gone "far enough" to be considered successful; others argue that it has already "failed". As the studies of decentralization in 15 developing countries in this volume clearly show, every case is different, and persuasive generalizations are hard to find. Fortunately, the introductory chapter usefully pulls this diverse reality together to highlight some key obstacles to successful decentralization and to suggest some approaches that might - provided that those in power are sufficiently supportive - lead to better outcomes in the future.' - Richard M. Bird, University of Toronto, Canada This insightful study examines the decentralization experiences from 15 countries in different regions of the world. All of these countries have actively attempted to decentralize, or continue to do so, and have faced obstacles serious enough to either derail or significantly delay their decentralization objectives. Decentralization in Developing Countries evaluates the main obstacles to the decentralization process. The contributors expertly discuss the flaws in the decentralization design, resistance from those holding traditional or central power and, uniquely, weak central governments. They then extract lessons for policymakers, regarding what may be done and what should ideally be avoided. This important book focuses on how to implement decentralization plans as whole complete processes, rather than examining individual aspects of decentralization. It will therefore prove invaluable for academics and researchers of development economics, public finance and in particular decentralization. Employees of various bodies, including DFID, UNDP, the World Bank, as well as other development banks and bilateral aid organizations, will also find it an informative resource.Trade Review‘Some think that decentralization has not gone “far enough” to be considered successful; others argue that it has already “failed”. As the studies of decentralization in 15 developing countries in this volume clearly show, every case is different, and persuasive generalizations are hard to find. Fortunately, the introductory chapter usefully pulls this diverse reality together to highlight some key obstacles to successful decentralization and to suggest some approaches that might – provided that those in power are sufficiently supportive – lead to better outcomes in the future.’ -- Richard M. Bird, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. An Overview of the Main Obstacles to Decentralization Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and François Vaillancourt 2. Conceptual Problems in the Assignment of Functions in SEE: The Case of Albania Bernard Dafflon 3. Decentralization in the Post-Conflict African Environment: Sierra Leone and Southern Sudan Bob Searle 4. Challenge to Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Pakistan: The Revenue Assignment Dimension Roy Bahl, Musharraf Cyan and Sally Wallace 5. Constraints to Effective Fiscal Decentralization in Peru Ehtisham Ahmad and Mercedes García-Escribano 6. Reining in Provincial Fiscal ‘Owners’: Decentralization in Lao PDR Juan Luis Gomez, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepúlveda 7. Decentralization in Bangladesh: Change has been Elusive William F. Fox and Balakrishna Menon 8. The Political-Economy of Decentralization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Kai Kaiser, Jean Mabi Mulumba and Tony Verheijen 9. Decentralization in Burkina Faso: The Slow March Towards Devolution Eric Champagne and Ben Mamadou Ouegraogo 10. Decentralization in Cambodia: Consolidating Central Power or Building Accountability from Below? Paul Smoke and Joanne Morrison 11. Decentralization in Madagascar: A String of Unfinished Races François Vaillancourt 12. Decentralizing Egypt: Not Just Another Economic Reform Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev 13. Obstacles to Decentralization in Ethiopia: Political Controls versus Discretion and Accountability Serdar Yilmaz and Varsha Venugopal 14. Tanzania’s Fiscal Arrangements: Obstacles to Fiscal Decentralization or Structures of Union-Preserving Federalism? Luc Noiset and Mark Rider 15. The Difficult Road to Local Autonomy in Yemen: Decentralization Reforms between Political Rationale and Bureaucratic Resistances in a Multi-party Democracy of the Arabian Peninsula Leonardo G. Romeo and Mohamed El Mensi 16. Sharing Petroleum Resources in Iraq: Obstacle or Foundation to Decentralization Grant Bishop and Anwar Shah Index

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Book Synopsis'In this timely book, Professor Gordon Rausser explores the changing landscape of university-industry relations, informed by his unusual background as a pioneer in Public Private Research Partnerships (PPRPs) while serving as Dean of the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley. Scholars, administrators, and industry executives who are interested in industry/university partnerships will find a treasure of information and insights in this beautifully written book.'- Steve P. Briggs, University of California, San Diego'As public/private partnerships have become increasingly important to the funding of academic research, it is essential not only to learn from past institutional experience of such partnerships, but to create templates that optimize their structure for both partners. In his important book, Structuring Public-Private Research Partnerships for Success, Gordon Rausser has set himself to both tasks. All those who think about such partnerships will learn from this book.'- Carol Christ, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity research has played an essential role in economic growth by generating public good outputs that have not readily lent themselves to private market development. As funding for universities and governmental research units has declined, these institutions have turned to the private sector to augment their research and development budgets. This book presents a framework for structuring public-private research partnerships that protect both these institutions' academic freedom and the private firm's corporate interests. The authors present a four-stage framework that recognizes the critical role of 'control rights' and reveals how these rights can be effectively identified, valued, and allocated between research partners. The book provides a number of template designs for a variety of research partnerships, including tactics and strategies for implementing successful public-private research partnerships. It further provides case studies with examples of both successful and unsuccessful research partnerships. The book demonstrates that universities are empowered when they pursue private partners actively and when contracts preserve academic freedom, address confidentiality, specify intellectual property rights, define access to proprietary data, clarify the conflict resolution process, and address potential publication delays.This book is an essential and illuminating resource for academic researchers in economics and public policy departments, technology transfer offices, as well as others involved in university and public administration.Trade Review'The landscape for financing research has changed, and continues to change. Universities and other public enterprises are increasingly reliant on support from the private sector through grants, contracts, agreements, and other forms of public-private partnerships, many of which involve some shared interest in the outcome. Navigating this evolving landscape is challenging for participants in the private and public sector alike. Economists and others have written on various aspects, but piecemeal. Structuring Public-Private Research Partnerships for Success is the first comprehensive analysis of the incentive issues that arise in the formation and management of public-private research partnerships (PPRPs). It presents a framework for analyzing the structure of contracts for PPRPs and devising appropriately designed research agreements, supported by in-depth analytical treatment of many of the real-world challenges that arise in this context. This book is an invaluable reference for economists and others who are grappling with how to design research funding institutions that will succeed and enable public research enterprises to continue to flourish and achieve their public purposes in an era of ever-tighter government purse-strings.' --Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis'Professor Rausser's book is unique in its focus on university efforts to negotiate research funding from the private sector, a crucial concern in this era of vanishing federal funding for basic research. It is especially noteworthy for its rigorous but accessible analyses of the tradeoff between basic and applied research in universities, and the process of bargaining between universities and businesses over research focus and funding. The lessons learned from the case studies analyzed are important to, and should be required reading for, all university administrators concerned about funding research.' --Richard Jensen, University of Notre Dame'Over the last 50 years, we have seen the emergence of an educational-industrial complex where university innovation and knowledge provide the foundation for cutting-edge industrial development. This new book is a must-read to understand the most exciting and controversial chapter in the evolution of the educational-industrial complex, namely, university/industry partnerships. The book provides an insightful conceptual framework for the design of such partnerships and analyzes the implications of actual contracts. The sound use of economic principles in institutional design will help to identify the pitfalls of bad design. The highlights of the book are the fascinating case studies of such arrangements, in particular, the Berkeley/Novartis arrangement. Since university/industry partnerships are likely to proliferate, this book provides essential reading for properly designing these partnerships. The book will be of much interest to both applied and theoretical economists and to practitioners and scholars of research and development and institutional design.' --David Zilberman, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Public Research Enterprises: The Changing Landscape 2. The Scientific Research Process 3. Public Good Versus Private Good Research: The Empirical Evidence 4. Crowding-in Versus Crowding-out of Public Good Research 5. Knowledge Creation and the Research and Development Process 6. PPRPs: The Benefits and Risks of the Bargain 7. Governance Structures and Collective Decision Making 8. Incomplete Contracts and Control Premiums 9. Impure Goods and the Structure of Contracts 10. The Structural Setting: The Stages of Research and Development 11. Lessons and Recommendations Index

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Book SynopsisThrough a combination of global data analysis and focused country level analysis, this timely book provides answers to the most pertinent country and industry specific questions defining the current relationship between technology, natural resources and economic growth. Shunsuke Managi takes a distinctive approach by focusing on the design and implementation of environmental regulations that encourage technological progress and, in doing so, looks at ways to ensure productivity improvements in the face of increasingly stringent environmental regulations and natural resource depletion. The findings in this important book demonstrate how successful environmental policies can contribute to efficiency by encouraging, rather than inhibiting, technological innovation. Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth will provide a valuable resource for a wide readership including postgraduate students, researchers, academics and policy makers working in the fields of environmental and ecological economics.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Global Analysis 1. Economic Growth and the Environment 2. Energy Substitution and Carbon Dioxide Emissions 3. Pollution, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth 4. Trade Openness and Environmental Quality 5. Environmental Productivity 6. Energy Price-induced Technological Change 7. Trade-induced Technological Change 8. Regional Economic Integration Part II: Country-Level Analysis 9. Emissions Trading in the United States 10. Increasing Returns to Pollution Abatement in the United States 11. Policy-induced Competitiveness in the United States 12. Trade Liberalization, Technology, and the Environment 13. Policy Implementation and its Effectiveness in China 14. Clean Technological Inventions in Japan 15. Intervention of Economic Policy and its Nonlinear Effects in Japan 16. The Next Emerging Giants: India and Africa 17. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisAllying and expanding the diverse fields of entrepreneurship and sustainable development research is a modern day imperative. The Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Research cuts through the different approaches and perspectives of the two fields to point the way ahead for research on sustainable entrepreneurship, outlining the motivation, intentions and impact of ecopreneurs in a local, national and global context.This Handbook paints an illuminating picture of the historic and current understanding of the bond between entrepreneurship and sustainable development. The authors explore the basic contradictions between the two fields and outline the transformative role entrepreneurship can play in achieving sustainable development. 45 expert researchers and their research communities from 16 countries across Europe, Africa, Australia and North America provide original and informative contributions on a variety of issues, from women s empowerment to climate change and organic farmers to ecotourism.With current and authoritative contributions spanning the globe, this Handbook will inspire researchers, teachers and policy-makers to compose their own understanding and contribution on the fast expanding field of entrepreneurship and sustainable development.Contributors: S. Avdeitchikova, F.-M. Belz, K. Berglund, J. Binder, T. Bjerregaard, O. Branzei, B. Cannatelli, T. Ceranic, L. Coenen, M. Dejardin, S. Delgado Calderon, J. Delgado-Ceballos, S. Farny, R. Feola, L.M. Ferri, V. Ferrón-Vílchez, S. Gómez-Haro, F. Gribaa, B. Johannisson, A.W. Johansson, G. Keremane, R. Klapper, P. Kyrö, J. Lauring, J. McKay, K. Messeghem, M. Molteni, I. Montiel, J. Nizet, R. Parente, M. Pedrini, K. Poldner, T. Roolaht, E. Rosell, B. Schwartz, M. Sciarelli, E. Sundin, R. Stenberg, M. Tani, M. Tillmar, J.M.de la Toree-Ruiz, A. Tounés, P. Upham, D. Van Dam, Z. WuTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Holger Patzelt Acknowledgements Introduction: Expanding the Field of Research on Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Paula Kyrö PART I: HISTORICAL ROOTS AND CURRENT CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES FOR THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. To Grow or not to Grow? Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Paula Kyrö 2. Sustainable Entrepreneurship: What It Is Julia Katharina Binder and Frank-Martin Belz PART II: THE TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY 3. Socially Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Case of Entrepreneurial Practice in Social Change and Stability Toke Bjerregaard and Jakob Lauring 4. Entrepreneurship the Missing Link for Democratization and Development in Fragile Nations? Steffen Farny and Santiago Delgado Calderon 5. Organizing Societal Entrepreneurship – A Cross Sector Challenge Bengt Johannisson, Anders W. Johansson, Elisabeth Sundin, Karin Berglund, Erik Rosell, Birgitta Schwartz, Rebecca Stenberg and Malin Tillmar 6. Public Servants as Sustainability Policy Entrepreneurs in Australia - The Issues and Outcomes Ganesh Keremane, Jennifer McKay and Zhifang Wu PART III MOTIVATIONAL AND INTENTIONAL APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 7. Recognizing First-person Opportunities for Sustainable Development Benedetto Cannatelli, Laura Maria Ferri, Matteo Pedrini and Mario Molteni 8. Cooking up Solutions for Climate Change: The Role of Sustainable Entrepreneurs Ivan Montiel and Tara Ceranic 9. An Exploratory Model of the Environmental Intention of SME Directors in Tunisia Azzedine Tounés, Fafani Gribaa and Karim Messeghem 10. What Motivates Hotel Managers to Become Ecopreneurs: A Case Study on Spanish Tourism Sector Samuel Gómez-Haro, Vera Ferrón-Vílchez, José Manuel de la Torre-Ruiz and Javier Delgado-Ceballos 11. The Impact of Micro Firm Every-day Practices on Sustainable Development in Local Communities Rita Klapper and Paul Upham PART IV INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY ORIENTED APPROACHES TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 12. The Renewable Energy Industry: Competitive Landscapes and Entrepreneurial Roles Roberto Parente and Rosangela Feola 13. Commercializing Clean Technology Innovations – The Emergence of New Business in an Agency-Structure Perspective Sofia Avdeitchikova and Lars Coenen 14. David versus Goliath: How Eco-entrepreneurs Transform Global Eco-systems Kim Poldner and Oana Branzei 15. Market-Driven Capabilities and Sustainability of Alliances by Agricultural Small and Medium Enterprises Mauro Sciarelli and Mario Tani 16. Entrepreneurial Functions by Organic Farmers Marcus Dejardin, Jean Nizet and Denise Van Dam 17. The Entrepreneurial Contribution of Foreign-owned Companies to the Sustainable Development of Small Developing Host Economy Tõnu Roolaht Index

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Book SynopsisGovernments around the globe are promoting co-production and community social enterprise as policy strategies to address the need for local, 21st century service provision - but can small communities engage spontaneously in social enterprise and what is the true potential for citizens to produce services? This book addresses a clutch of contemporary societal challenges including: aging demography and the consequent need for extended care in communities; public service provision in an era of retrenching welfare and global financial crises; service provision to rural communities that are increasingly 'hollowed out' through lack of working age people; and, how best to engender the development of community social enterprise organizations capable of providing high quality, accessible services. It is packed with information and evidence garnered from research into the environment for developing community social enterprise and co-producing services; how communities react to being asked to co-produce; what to expect in terms of the social enterprises they can produce; and, how to make them happen. This book is an antidote to the rhetoric of optimistic governments that pronounce co-production as a panacea to the challenges of providing local services and by drawing on the evidence from a 'real-life' international study will make policy makers more savvy about their aspirations for co-production, give service professionals practical strategies for working with communities, fill a gap in the academic evidence about community, as opposed to individual, social enterprise and reassure community members that they can deliver services through community social enterprise if the right partnerships and strategies are in place. Community Co-Production will appeal to students and scholars over a broad range of disciplines including development, entrepreneurship, public and social policy, economics and regional studies. Contributors: S. Bradley, J. Farmer, C. Hill, S.-A. Munoz, K. Radford, S. Shortall, S. Skerratt, A. Steinerowski, K. Stephen, S. WhitelawTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Introduction Jane Farmer, Carol Hill and Sarah-Anne Muñoz 1. The Signs All Point to Community Social Enterprise – Don’t They? Carol Hill 2. Developing Rural Social Enterprise: The Relevance of Context Sarah Skerratt 3. Socially Entrepreneurial Skills and Capabilities in a Rural Community Context Sarah-Anne Muñoz and Artur Steinerowski 4. Organisational Processes and the Policy–Practice Gap Jane Farmer and Kate Stephen 5. Socially Enterprising Communities: Their Dynamics and Readiness for Service Innovation Katy Radford and Sally Shortall 6. Sustaining Social Organisations in Rural Areas Sandy Whitelaw 7. Measuring the Value of Social Organisations as Rural Service Providers Jane Farmer and Sara Bradley Conclusion Carol Hill, Jane Farmer and Sarah-Anne Muñoz Index

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Book SynopsisThe Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the authors have created an index that offers a measure of the quality of the business formation process in 79 of the most important countries in the world. Zoltan J. Acs and Laszlo Szerb expertly capture the contextual feature of entrepreneurship by focusing on entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial aspirations. The data and their contribution to the business formation process are supported by three decades of research into entrepreneurship across a host of countries. The unique index construction of individual and institutional measures integrates 31 variables from various data sources into 14 pillars, three sub-indexes and a 'super index'. The relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development appears to be more or less mildly S-shaped. The findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to development. The model has important implications for development policy. This unique book will be invaluable for researchers, policy makers and entrepreneurs themselves keen to expand their understanding of entrepreneurship and development. Contents: Foreword: Entrepreneurship and Global Growth (Jack Goldstone) Preface Introduction to the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (with Erkko Autio) 1. The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2. Entrepreneurship and Economic Development 3. Methodology and Data Description 4. Country StandingsTrade ReviewThe Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index... focuses on high-growth companies. It tries to measure the ambition of entrepreneurs as well as the prevalence of start-ups. It presents its results in ways that are designed to capture the attention of policymakers. It produces a ranking of 71 countries (for all their faults, nothing makes a politician jump like a league table). It also identifies bottlenecks that prevent countries from doing better. The index concludes that development and enterprise are correlated. - The Economist --The EconomistTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: Entrepreneurship and Global Growth by Jack Goldstone Preface Introduction to the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index with Erkko Autio 1. The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2. Entrepreneurship and Economic Development 3. Methodology and Data Description 4. Country Standings

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Book SynopsisRealizing institutions and regulations that foster economic growth is an essential asset for contemporary economies. This book investigates practices and options for steering individual and firm behaviour that prevents unacceptable externalities and boosts public interests. These multi-dimensional interactions are investigated in three areas; innovativeness, especially in terms of IP rights; food safety requirements and the impact on EU-competitiveness; and economic stability, particularly within the banking industry. The book provides complementary views and offers clear and relevant conclusions. Students and researchers of regulatory affairs, IPR, industrial organization and political impact studies will find this book comprehensive and essential to their studies.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Do Rules and Regulations Bind or Boost Economic Growth? Emiel F.M.Wubben PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 2. IPR Regulations in Need of Revision Piet Schalkwijk 3. Breeder’s Rights and Patents: Competing IPR Systems that Mean to Stimulate Innovation Niels P. Louwaars and Hans J.M. Dons 4. The Role and Contribution of Intellectual Property Rights in the Process of Spillover of Knowledge, Knowledge Valorization and Regional Economic Development P.H. van Dongen PART II: GENERAL FOOD LAW 5. Food Legislation and Competitiveness in the EU Food Industry Jo H.M. Wijnands, Harry J. Bremmers, Bernd M.J. van der Meulen and Krijn J. Poppe 6. The EU Precautionary Principle Impacts Both Food Safety and Market Entry and Competitiveness Miguel Ángel Recuerda Girela 7. Public Mandatory and Private Voluntary Standards: Challenge or Opportunity for Small-scale Farmers’ Participation in Global Supply Chains? Margret Will PART III: BANKING 8. How to Reconcile Public Risks and Private Interests in the Banking Industry Marco van Hengel and Klaas Knot 9. The Use of Capital Requirements to Reconcile Social and Private Interests in the Banking Industry Maarten Gelderman 10. The Macroeconomics of the Credit Crisis: In Search of Externalities for Macro Prudential Supervision Frank A.G. den Butter Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributors expertly provide a comparative perspective on regional integration in different regions of the world while at the same time analyzing the various facets of integration, relating to trade, FDI, finance and monetary policies. They provide a comprehensive treatment of the subject and offer new perspectives on the potential developmental effects of regional integration and the implications of regional integration for global economic governance. While highlighting and illustrating the potential benefits deriving from regional economic integration, the book also stresses the problems and challenges regional integration processes are usually confronted with. This informative book will be of interest to academic researchers, students, policy makers and professional economists working on matters of regional economic cooperation and integration, international economics and development economics. While applying state of the art economic tools, it is written in a clear and accessible style, intended for a wide readership among professionals and general readers interested in these fields.Contributors: R. Baumann, R.U. Das, P. Draper, T. Hartzenberg, Y. Huang, J. Kubny, R. Kumar, D. Malungisa, J. McKay, F. Molders, L. Muhlich, V. Nitsch, P. Nunnenkamp, J.A. Ocampo, E. Ogawa, M. Pomerleano, M. Qobo, J.J. Reade, J.J. Schott, U. Volz, R. Wolfinger, Y. ZhangTrade ReviewIf you are interested in finding out more about regionalism's potential to reshape globalization and global governance, turn to this excellent and thoroughly researched volume. While the authors focus on international trade and finance, their stimulating analyses are of much broader relevance. They point to an emerging new phase of globalization made more open and participatory 'flatter' by enhanced regionalism. Inge Kaul, Hertie School of Governance, GermanyIt is the distinctive contribution of this book to explore the complex relationship between the reality of regionalisation and the objective of achieving global economic cooperation and integration. - Michele Fratianni, University of Ancona, Italy This book explores a central issue of the world economy today: the role of regional integration for economic development and global governance. The importance of this issue comes from the fact that the globalisation process that we have been experiencing in recent decades is also a process of open regionalism. [ - ] To what extent does this process contribute to development? The reader will find many interesting answers to this question in the book, [which] is an outstanding contribution to this debate. I welcome its publication and look forward to its influence on global debates on the relations between regional integration, development and global governance. --- From the foreword by Jose Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword José Antonio Ocampo Introduction Ulrich Volz PART I: INTEGRATION EXPERIENCES IN DIFFERENT REGIONS 1. SAARC: Changing Realities, Opportunities and Challenges Rajiv Kumar 2. East Asian Economic Integration and its Impact on the Chinese Economy Yanghua Huang and Yongsheng Zhang 3. Regional Integration in Southern Africa: Key Issues and Challenges Trudi Hartzenberg and Davie Malungisa 4. Integration in Latin America – Trends and Challenges Renato Baumann PART II: REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND THE MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEM 5. The Future of the Multilateral Trading System in a Multi-polar World Jeffrey J. Schott 6. Rabbits Caught in the Headlights? Africa and the ‘Multilateralizing Regionalism’ Paradigm Peter Draper and Mzukisi Qobo PART III: REGIONAL TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT 7. Regional Trade-FDI-Poverty Alleviation Linkages – Some Analytical and Empirical Explorations Ram Upendra Das 8. Regional Integration and FDI in Emerging Markets Julia Kubny, Florian Mölders and Peter Nunnenkamp PART IV: REGIONAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION 9. Developing Regional Financial Markets – the Case of East Asia Michael Pomerleano 10. Regional Financing Arrangements and the IMF Julie McKay, Ulrich Volz and Regine Wölfinger PART V: TOPICS IN MONETARY INTEGRATION 11. Monetary Integration and Trade: What do we Know? Volker Nitsch 12. When You Got Nothing, You Got Nothing to Lose – Regional Monetary Integration and Policy Independence J. James Reade and Ulrich Volz 13. South–South Regional Monetary Cooperation: Potential Gains for Developing Countries and Emerging Markets Laurissa Mühlich 14. Currency Baskets for East Asia Eiji Ogawa Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a convenient and comprehensive collection of seminal papers on the costs of economic growth. The papers are grouped in 6 sections covering: the origins of the debate, the limits to growth, measurement, international and global dimensions, developing countries, and looking ahead. The original introduction, written by the editor, draws out the main themes that run through this extensive and thought provoking literature. This timely collection is is intended for academics, students, researchers and anyone interested in this controversial topic.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Peter A. Victor PART I THE DEBATE BEGINS 1. John Stuart Mill ([1848] 1868), ‘Of the Stationary State’ 2. John Maynard Keynes ([1931] 1951), ‘Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930)’ 3. K. William Kapp (1950), ‘The Nature and Significance of Social Costs’ 4. Leopold Kohr (1978), ‘Size and Living Standards’ 5. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), ‘The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth’ 6. E.J. Mishan (1967), ‘Foreword’ 7. E.J. Mishan (1967), ‘Growthmania’ 8. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1975), ‘Energy and Economic Myths’ 9. Simon Kuznets (1973), ‘Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections’ 10. Luís Francisco Carvalho and João Rodrigues (2006), ‘On Markets and Morality: Revisiting Fred Hirsch’ 11. Gideon Rosenbluth (1976), ‘Economists and the Growth Controversy’ PART II LIMITS TO GROWTH 12. Donella H. Meadows (2007), ‘The History and Conclusions of The Limits to Growth’ 13. Wilfred Beckerman (1992), ‘Economic Growth and the Environment: Whose Growth? Whose Environment?’ 14. Paul Ekins (1993), ‘“Limits to Growth” and “Sustainable Development”: Grappling with Ecological Realities’ 15. Giovanni Dosi and Marco Grazzi (2009), ‘Energy, Development and the Environment: An Appraisal Three Decades After the “Limits to Growth” Debate’ 16. Graham M. Turner (2008), ‘A Comparison of The Limits of Growth with 30 Years of Reality’ PART III MEASUREMENT 17. Christian Leipert (1986), ‘Social Costs of Economic Growth’ 18. Peter Bartelmus (2009), ‘The Cost of Natural Capital Consumption: Accounting for a Sustainable World Economy’ 19. Manfred Max-Neef (1995), ‘Economic Growth and Quality of Life: A Threshold Hypothesis’ 20. Clive Hamilton (1999), ‘The Genuine Progress Indicator Methodological Developments and Results from Australia’ 21. Mathis Wackernagel, Niels B. Schulz, Diana Deumling, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Martin Jenkins, Valerie Kapos, Chad Monfreda, Jonathan Loh, Norman Myers, Richard Norgaard and Jørgen Randers (2002), ‘Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy’ 22. William E. Rees (1992), ‘Ecological Footprints and Appropriated Carrying Capacity: What Urban Economics Leaves Out’ 23. Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb and Fridolin Krausmann (2007), ‘Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP)’ 24. Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger (1995), ‘Economic Growth and the Environment’ 25. Soumyananda Dinda (2004), ‘Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: A Survey’ 26. Richard T. Carson (2009), ‘The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Seeking Empirical Regularity and Theoretical Structure’ 27. Aurélien Boutaud, Natacha Gondran and Christian Brodhag (2006), ‘(Local) Environmental Quality Versus (Global) Ecological Carrying Capacity: What Might Alternative Aggregated Indicators Bring to the Debates About Environmental Kuznets Curves and Sustainable Development?’ 28. Marian R. Chertow (2000), ‘The IPAT Equation and Its Variants: Changing Views of Technology and Environmental Impact’ 29. Fridolin Krausmann, Simone Gingrich, Nina Eisenmenger, Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl and Marina Fischer-Kowalski (2009), ‘Growth in Global Materials Use, GDP and Population During the 20th Century’ 30. Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart III Chapin, Eric Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W. Corell, Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen and Jonathan Foley (2009), ‘Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity’ PART IV INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL DIMENSIONS 31. John Asafu-Adjaye (2003), ‘Biodiversity Loss and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis’ 32. Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke (2010), ‘The End of Economic Growth? A Contracting Threshold Hypothesis’ 33. Brian R. Copeland and M. Scott Taylor (2004), ‘Trade, Growth, and the Environment’ 34. Anna Kukla-Gryz (2009), ‘Economic Growth, International Trade and Air Pollution: A Decomposition Analysis’ 35. Clive L. Spash (2007), ‘The Economics of Climate Change Impacts à la Stern: Novel and Nuanced or Rhetorically Restricted?’ 36. Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton, Chris Hope and Stephane Alberth (2009), ‘Did the Stern Review Underestimate US and Global Climate Damages?’ 37. Martin L. Weitzman (2009), ‘On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change’ 38. Charles R. Boehmer (2010), ‘Economic Growth and Violent International Conflict: 1875–1999’ PART V DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 39. Bédia F. Aka (2008), ‘Effects of Trade and Growth on Air Pollution in the Aggregated Sub-Saharan Africa’ 40. Joysri Acharyya (2009), ‘FDI, Growth and the Environment: Evidence from India on CO2: Emission During the Last Two Decades’ 41. Zongguo Wen and Jining Chen (2008), ‘A Cost–Benefit Analysis for the Economic Growth in China’ 42. Sheng Zhao, Changwen Wu, Huasheng Hong and Luoping Zhang (2009), ‘Linking the Concept of Ecological Footprint and Valuation of Ecosystem Services - A Case Study of Economic Growth and Natural Carrying Capacity’ 43. Arthur P.J. Mol (2011), ‘China’s Ascent and Africa’s Environment’ 44. Matthew A. Cole, Robert J.R. Elliott and Jing Zhang (2011), ‘Growth, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Environment: Evidence from Chinese Cities’ PART VI LOOKING AHEAD 45. Herman E. Daly (2001), ‘Beyond Growth: Avoiding Uneconomic Growth’ 46. Roefie Hueting (2010), ‘Why Environmental Sustainability Can Most Probably Not be Attained with Growing Production’ 47. Sardar M.N. Islam, Mohan Munasinghe and Matthew Clarke (2003), ‘Making Long-Term Economic Growth More Sustainable: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits’ 48. A. Antoci, S. Borghesi and P. Russu (2005), ‘Environmental Defensive Expenditures, Expectations and Growth’ 49. Stefano Bartolini (2007), ‘Why are People So Unhappy? Why do they Strive so Hard for Money? Competing Explanations of the Broken Promises of Economic Growth’ 50. Tim Jackson (2008), ‘Where is the “Wellbeing Dividend”? Nature, Structure and Consumption Inequalities’ 51. Siak Smulders (1995), ‘Entropy, Environment, and Endogenous Economic Growth’ 52. Roelof Boumans, Robert Costanza, Joshua Farley, Matthew A. Wilson, Rosimeiry Portela, Jan Rotmans, Ferdinando Villa and Monica Grasso (2002), ‘Modeling the Dynamics of the Integrated Earth System and the Value of Global Ecosystem Services Using the GUMBO Model’ 53. Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Peter Nijkamp (1994), ‘Dynamic Macro Modelling and Materials Balance’ 54. Graham M. Turner and Timothy Baynes (2010), ‘Soft-Coupling of National Biophysical and Economic Models for Improved Understanding of Feedbacks’ 55. Robert U. Ayres (2008), ‘Sustainability Economics: Where do we Stand?’ 56. Peter A. Victor (2010), ‘Ecological Economics and Economic Growth’ 57. Juliet B. Schor (2005), ‘Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction’ 58. Petter Naess and Karl Georg Høyer (2009), ‘The Emperor’s Green Clothes: Growth, Decoupling, and Capitalism’ 59. Myron J. Gordon (2005), ‘Growth, Uncertainty and the Third World in the Rise and Fall of Capitalism’ 60. Joan Martínez-Alier, Unai Pascual, Franck-Dominique Vivien and Edwin Zaccai (2010), ‘Sustainable De-Growth: Mapping the Context, Criticisms and Future Prospects of an Emergent Paradigm’

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Book SynopsisRegional economic development has experienced considerable dynamism over recent years. Perhaps the most notable cases were the rise of China and India to emergent country status by the turn of the millennium. With time now for hindsight, this book identifies some of the key forces behind these development successes, namely agglomeration, clusters and entrepreneurship.The expert contributors explore these three forces, which form the basis of much scholarly work in new economic geography and endogenous growth theory and policy. Here, academics from across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia consider the role of agglomeration, clusters and entrepreneurship in regional economic development within a global market context.The book presents solid conceptual and methodological contributions to the growing body of knowledge that extends these theoretical concepts, and prescribes policy and practical applications. Relevant case studies underpin the detailed empirical analyses.Academics, students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of entrepreneurship, regional development and regional science will find this book to be an enlightening read.Contributors: L. Achtenhagen, J. Bastesen, I. Bernhard, N. Carbonara, T.L. Clower, G.A.S. Cook, I. Giannoccaro, L. Iandoli, H. Jeong, B. Johannson, C. Karlsson, K. Kobayashi, S. Koster, A. Manduchi, E. Marchione, M. Markantoni, L. Naldi, K. Nyström, M. Onishi, N.R. Pandit, R. Picard, C. Ponsiglione, T.-K. Shyy, C. Song, R.J. Stimson, R.R. Stough, D. Strijker, E. Vatne, B.L. Weinstein, E. Wihlborg, G. ZolloTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: ENDOGENOUS REGIONAL GROWTH AND RELATED PROCESSES 1. Endogenous Regional Growth and Development: Clusters, Agglomeration and Entrepreneurship Roger R. Stough, Charlie Karlsson and Borje Johannson 2. Differentials in Endogenous Regional Employment Growth in US Metropolitan Areas: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Other Leadership and Institutional Factors Robert J. Stimson, Roger R. Stough, Tung-Kai Shyy and Chunpu Song 3. Agglomeration and Flows of Outward Direct Investment: An Analysis of Financial Services in the United Kingdom Gary A.S. Cook and Naresh R. Pandit 4. Knowledge Sharing and Network Emergence in Small Firm Clusters: An Agent-Based Model of Industrial Districts Luca Iandoli, Elio Marchione, Cristina Ponsiglione and Giuseppe Zollo 5. Determinants of MNC Location Choice in Industrial Districts: An Empirical Analysis in Italy Nunzia Carbonara and Ilaria Giannoccaro 6. Entrepreneur Urban Policies and Regional Learning Governance Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Masamitsu Onishi and Hayeong Jeong 7. Side Activity Entrepreneur: Lifestyle or Economically Oriented? Mariana Markantoni, Sierdjan Koster and Dirk Strijker PART II: CASE STUDIES 8. The Geography of Rapid-Growth Firms: Exploring the Role and Location of Entrepreneurial Ventures Jarle Bastesen and Eirik Vatne 9. Regional E-Governance: Promoting Entrepreneurial Behavior in Public Administration Iréne Bernhard and Elin Wihlborg 10. Challenges and Success Factors in Media Cluster Development: A Review of Contemporary Knowledge Leona Achtenhagen and Robert Picard 11. Clusters and Conglomerates in the Media Industry Agostino Manduchi and Lucia Naldi 12. The Moving Media Industry as a Catalyst for Technological Change and Economic Development: Texas as a Case Study Bernard L. Weinstein and Terry L. Clower 13. Business Regulation and Red Tape in the Entrepreneurial Economy Kristina Nyström

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Book SynopsisThis book compares the successes and failures of the development and growth processes of Argentina and Brazil. It provides important insights into the different performances of these economies through a series of comparative essays written by Argentinian and Brazilian economists. In the last 60 years Argentina and Brazil have both undergone a dramatic process of urbanization and industrialization. While there are similarities between the two, each country has dealt with the side effects in a different manner. In this insightful book, Argentinean and Brazilian economists expertly analyze their country's experiences with processes of industrialization, the performance of the agricultural and service sectors, the impact of foreign investments, the distribution of income, the roles of the state and the privatization experience, and inflationary and stabilization experiences. The contrast of the two emerging countries addressing these challenges will offer students, economists and other social scientists significant new insights into the economic development process. Many of the articles will also appeal to individuals in multinational corporations and banks that have to deal with emerging market economies. Contributors include: H. Aguirre, E. Amann, D.G. Arce, C.R. Azzoni, C.J. Caetano Bacha, W. Baer, A.R. Barros, R. Bebczuk, C. Ciappa, D. Coes, A. Elizagaray, A. Figueroa, D.I. Fleischer, M.A.R. da Fonseca, A. Gallo, E.M. Greco, J.J.M Guilhoto, G. Hewings, D. Heymann, R. Hoffmann, A. Horowitz, B. Kosacoff, A. Lopez, J.L. Love, S. Petralia, D. Petrecolla, A.C. Pinheiro, A. Porto, A. Ramos, C.A. Romero, S.D. Silber, W. Sosa-Escudero, A. VillelaTrade Review‘. . . an excellent reference resource on this history and current status of the two countries’ economies.’ -- K.P. Jameson, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Werner Baer and David Fleischer PART I: INDUSTRIALIZATION 1. Industrial Development in Argentina Bernardo Kosacoff 2. A Bird’s Eye View of Brazilian Industrialization André Villela 3. Comments on Part I Joseph L. Love PART II: AGRICULTURE 4. The Agricultural Sector in Argentina César Ciappa and Andrés Gallo 5. The Evolution of Brazilian Agriculture from 1987 to 2009 Carlos José Caetano Bacha 6. Comments on Part II Andrew W. Horowitz PART III: THE SERVICE SECTOR: FORMAL AND INFORMAL 7. General Facts About the Service Sector in Argentina Ricardo Bebczuk 8. Size and Importance of Tertiary Activities in Brazil Carlos R. Azzoni and Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto 9. Comments on Part III Edmund Amann PART IV: INCOME DISTRIBUTION 10. Anatomy of Distributive Changes in Argentina Walter Sosa-Escudero and Sergio Petralia 11. The Evolution of Income Distribution in Brazil Rodolfo Hoffmann 12. Comments on Part IV Adolfo Figueroa PART V: THE STATE AND THE PRIVATIZATION EXPERIENCE 13. Argentina’s Gas and Electricity Reform Esteban Manuel Greco, Diego Petrecolla and Carlos Adrián Romero 14. Two Decades of Privatization in Brazil Armando Castelar Pinheiro 15. Comments on Part V Werner Baer PART VI: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 16. Regional Development, Regional Disparities and Public Policies in Argentina: A Long-run View Alberto Porto and Atilio Elizagaray 17. The Regional Question in Brazil: Nature, Causes and Policies Alexandre Rands Barros 18. Comments on Part VI Geoffrey J.D. Hewings PART VII: INFLATION AND STABILIZATION POLICIES 19. Inflation and Macroeconomic Policies in Post-convertibility Argentina Daniel Heymann, Adrián Ramos and Horacio Aguirre 20. Inflation and Stabilization in Brazil Manuel A.R. da Fonseca 21. Comments on Part VII Daniel G. Arce M. PART VIII: FOREIGN TRADE AND INVESTMENT: PAST AND PRESENT 22. Trade and Foreign Investment in Argentina: From the Agro-export Model to the Present Andrés López 23. Foreign Trade and Foreign Investments: The Brazilian Experience in the Last Two Decades Simão Davi Silber 24. Comments on Part VIII Donald N. Coes Index

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Book SynopsisThis major book makes a significant contribution to the development of economic principles and practice for natural resource management in Third World countries.The 1980s witnessed the second environmental revolution: its theme is 'sustainable development'. This book offers a definition of sustainable development in terms of the non-depletion of natural environments. It investigates the economic implications of sustainability, with special reference to the practice of cost-benefit analysis and problems of accounting for the interests of future generations. The major part of the book is devoted to an analysis of environmental problems in the developing world. The essential ingredients of policy measures aimed at sustainable development are discussed.Trade Review'. . . the book is an essential reference work for students and practitioners of environmental economics.' -- Adrian W. Mukhebi, Agricultural Systems'This impressive and coherent little book successfully presents the green face of economics.' -- David Collard, The Times Higher Education Supplement'Sustainable Development has appeal for both theoreticians and policy makers alike, offering a cogent formulation of resource-management principles and practical methods of implementing them in the developing world.' -- Michael Duckworth, Journal of International Affairs

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a quantitative foundation for evaluating the conflicting aims of security and equality. Professor Tinbergen presents a number of econometric models which overturn many long-held beliefs about the relationship between military policy and development co-operation. His findings demonstrate that in order to achieve reasonable targets of welfare and security, military expenditure should be considerably reduced with development assistance being increased by amounts of the same order.Trade Review'. . . a very neat illustration of the skilful use of small, manageable, world models to consider pressing policy questions of great current relevance.' -- Ron Smith, The Economic Journal'Jan Tinbergen, in this book as in his earlier work, has the courage to address central issues.' -- Dietrich Fisher, Journal of Economic Literature'. . . here is an important, thought provoking, but technical work which should achieve at least one of its principal aims, to stimulate further research into the whole topic.' -- K. Jackson, Kyklos

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Book SynopsisThis key textbook provides a fresh introduction to macroeconomics in developing countries.It presents the main elements of 20th century macroeconomics and shows how the models produced for industrialised societies need to be modified for various groups of less developed countries. It is designed for those who start with little or no economics but need to understand the issues involved in the stabilizing of national income and the price level, and in keeping a sustainable balance of payments. It focuses on a number of measures designed to create stability including fiscal policy, the exchange rate, wages and interest rates. There are several case studies of policy experiments conducted since the mid 1970s.The book will be essential reading for graduate students from developing countries and all students taking courses on development economics.Table of ContentsPart 1 Purposes and concepts: meaning and purposes of economic stabilization; national income, product and expenditure; money and the balance of payments; exchange rates and international money. Part 2 Standard models for stabilization: Keynesian and monetarist approaches; managing the external balance. Part 3 Models for developing countries: relevant differences among types of economy; structuralism - model or attitude of mind?. Part 4 International approaches to stabilization: commodity-price stabilization; earnings compensation and insurance; debt and borrowing. Part 5 Domestic instruments of stabilization: stabilization targets and instruments; fiscal rules; choosing exchange-rate regimes and policies; wage policies; interest-rate policies; adjusting from gross imbalance. Part 6 Case-studies and conclusions: some recent experiments and experiences; concluding lessons.

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Book SynopsisThis important new book critically examines the argument that structural asymmetries between the rich, industrialised countries of the global 'north' or 'centre' and the poor, largely primary-producing countries of the 'south' or 'periphery' could be responsible for an unequal division of the gains from international trade and investment. It explores this view by developing a model of Centre-Periphery relations using building blocks provided by Sraffa, Leontief, Pasinetti, Goodwin and others.Trade Review'All in all, this is an excellent work on trade, growth and especially international investment with a unified theme.' -- S.M. Murshed, The Economic Journal'This book is an impressive contribution to the literature on North-South models of international economic relations, and their implications for development.' -- Scott MacDonald, The World Economy'The challenge of providing a simple yet illuminating and integrated analysis of trade, development and international capital flows is, clearly, a daunting one. Lynn Mainwaring has nevertheless met that challenge well in this impressive book.' -- Ian Steedman, University of Manchester, UK

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the principle issues surrounding the effective participation of the developing countries in the new, more interdependent global economy. It is up-to-date and offers a fresh and critical assessment of traditional approaches in the sphere of international financial and trading policies. Particular emphasis is placed upon what is not known and requires further research. Among the major issues addressed are the impact of the global exchange rate system on developing countries, the efficacy of growth-oriented structural adjustment lending, the future role of foreign direct investment, the relevance of the 'new' trade theories to the developing countries, primary commodity market problems, poverty alleviation in adjustment programmes and the role of information systems.Trade Review'. . . the book bears witness of thorough research, and its lay-out complements the contents. It can be recommended without any hesitation, particularly for teaching and research purposes.'

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Book SynopsisThis landmark book provides an up-to-date assessment and evaluation of industrial reform in 14 countries. Topics covered in detail include the changing role of the industrial enterprise, the state and private sectors, privatization, pricing, foreign trade and direct foreign investment. Emphasis is placed on events since 1989, the year of 'revolution' in Eastern Europe.Few of the countries are now traditionally 'socialist'. Cuba and North Korea can be so described, economically and politically. China and Vietnam grapple with market-orientated economic reforms while in the firm grip of the Communist Party. Other countries are now at various distances along the road to democracy and the market. These 'emerging democracies' or 'emerging market economies' face new and formidable challenges in making the transition from predominantly state-owned, planned economies to market economies based on private property. East Germany has been reunited with the Federal Republic, but the former industrial sector has been badly hit. The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, on the other hand, are disintegrating. Their emerging, independent states face daunting tasks; one critical question is whether they can form voluntary and sustainable economic unions.This book provides authoritative up-to-date studies of industrial reform in socialist countries and will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the transition to market economies in post-Communist societies.Trade Review'. . . the book contains a wealth of information on the current process of industrial restructuring and transformation in the former Centrally Planned Economies (CPEs). The editor is to be congratulated on putting together a highly readable set of essays on these very important problems. It should become required reading for students of the political economy of transformation as well as for the specialists and practitioners dealing with the problems of restructuring in the former CPEs.' -- Igor Filatochev, The World EconomyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Industrial Reform in Historical Perspective (I. Jeffries) 2. Albania: the Purge of Stalinist Ideology (A. Schnytzer) 3. Innovation with an Unchanging Core: No Path to the Market in Bulgaria? (R.J. McIntyre) 4. Industrial Reform in China (R.C. Hsu) 5. Industrial Reform and the Cuban Economy (A. Zimbalist) 6. Industrial Reform in Czechoslovakia (L. Rychetnik) 7. East Germany (I. Jeffries) 8. Hungary (P. Hare) 9. Mongolia (M. Kaser) 10. North Korea (I. Jeffries) 11. Poland (G. Blazyca) 12. The Romanian Enterprise (A.H. Smith) 13. The Soviet Industrial Enterprise in the 1980s (G.E. Schroeder) 14. Industrial Reform in Vietnam (M. Beresford) 15. Reform in Yugoslavia: the Retreat from Self-Management (S. Estrin and L. Takla)

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an important body of new essays on key economic problems and challenges of the 1990s. The essays provide new perspectives on key issues including economic development, East Europe, 1992, the US trade deficit, protectionism, the unification of Germany, privatization and many other topical issues. The papers included in the volume were presented at a conference organized by Paul Davidson and Jan Kregel and organized around three basic areas: problems of economic development, debt and the international payments system; integration and reconstruction of Western and Eastern Europe; and problems facing the US economy. The contributors represent an international group of distinguished economists. Economic Problems of the 1990s is an essential reference point for all economists concerned with economic problems and prospects in the late 20th century. It provides readers with an understanding of the problems facing the international economy and with innovative suggestions for solutions.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Economic Development, Debt and International Finance 1. The Terms of Trade of Primary Commodities, Debt and Development (A.P. Thirlwall) 2. Banking on Capital Flight (W. Darity, Jr) 3. Hyperinflation and Stabilization in Brazil: The First Collor Plan (L.C.B. Periera and Y. Nakano) 4. A Post-Keynesian Approach to Inflation, High Inflation and Hyperinflation (F.J. Cardim de Carvalho) 5. What International Payments Scheme Would Keynes Have Recommended for the 21st Century? (P. Davidson) 6. A German Perspective on the European Single Market and E.M.U (S. Frowen) 7. Alternative Economic Analyses of German Monetary and Economic Unification: Monetarist and Post-Keynesian (J.A. Kregel) 8. Should There be a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe? (I. Adelman) 9. Low Saving Rates and the ‘Twin Deficits’: Confusing the Symptoms and Causes of Economic Decline (R.A. Blecker) 10. Efficiency, Rent-seeking and Privatization: Ten Propositions (J.D. Donahue) 11. Public and Private Sector Relationships in the Age of Privatizations (R.C. Moe)

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Book SynopsisThe decade of the 1980s represented a notable deviation from the widespread and significant development advances of the previous 30 years. This was reflected in an extensive re-examination of the theoretical and empirical bases of development economics.This major new book - written by a group of distinguished economists - provides the new directions needed for confronting the continuing challenge of development. Lance Taylor, Joseph Stiglitz and Amitava Dutt focus primarily on recent theoretical developments and highlight significant advances in several areas especially in new structuralist and new neoclassical approaches. Ajit Singh, Keith Griffin and Kenneth Jameson present a refreshing perspective on the recent experience of developing countries and the prospects of development in coming decades.The main thesis of the book is that the 1980s represented a clear break in the development processes, but the 1990s and beyond hold the possibility of a viable re-direction of development and development economics.Trade Review'The quality of the work is significantly higher than in the average conference volume. It should be noted, however, that the present book aims to be more than yet another contribution to that species. As the editor argues in his Introduction, which is actually a manifesto, the book is intended to give birth to a new paradigm or, in somewhat less grandiloquent terms, a new direction in economics: analytical political economy.'Table of ContentsTwo issues in the state of development economics, Amitava Krishna Dutt; structuralist and competing approaches to development economics, Lance Taylor; alternative tactics and strategies for economic development, Joseph E. Stiglitz; the actual crisis of economic development in the 1980s - an alternative perspective for the future, Ajit Singh; grassroots development in the 1990s - can the development conundrum be resolved? Kenneth P. Jameson; suggestions for an international development strategy for the 1990s, Keith Griffin.

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Book SynopsisThe International Political Economy and the Developing Countries surveys the major post-war debates on the place of the Third World in the world economy. Beginning with the initial contributions to development economics by such pioneers as W. Arthur Lewis, Paul Prebisch and Hans Singer, the collection surveys the neostructuralist, dependency and world systems approaches that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, and the neoclassical revival that gained ground in the 1970s.Trade Review'A valuable reference collection of major works in this area . . .'

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Book SynopsisEconomic Progress and Prospects in the Third World combines an elegant and persuasive summary of development progress over the last 40 years with detailed case studies of two major developing countries, Nigeria and India.Beginning with an overview of changes in development theory and practice since 1945, the book distinguishes three main phases: the 'Golden Age' of the 1950s and 1960s, the illusory debt-led growth of the 1970s, and the 'Lost Decade' of the 1980s. It explains how successes in some of the earlier phases led to difficulties later on. The authors then describe the specific ways in which these changes have affected two nations: Nigeria, a relatively open economy, India, a relatively closed economy. In conclusion, they draw on the lessons of global and domestic development for a discussion of prospects in the 1990s.This important study will prove invaluable to policymakers and economists who seek to use the experience of the past to solve the problems of the future.Trade Review'Even with its avowed interventionist bias, the book throughout sustains a remarkable objectivity in evaluating the competing paradigms of development economics. Singer, co-author of this little gem of a book, is certainly one of the early pioneers of development economics. . . . The nontechnical, clean, and clear presentation of the pith of the competing theories of economic growth and development will be extremely helpful to initiate undergraduates, to refresh graduate students, and to guide civil servants in the LDCs.' -- Choice'These two distinguished authors combine their expertise to provide an overview of development progress since Bretton Woods. . . . This book provides an excellent summary of development thinking and strategy over the past 40 years. The balance of theory and case-studies is very helpful, and makes the argument extremely persuasive. The book is highly recommended for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in development studies generally, international political economy, international relations generally and area studies.' -- Caroline Thomas, International Affairs'This is an important book. It analyzes forty years of world development scenarios in a comprehensive and competent manner.' -- Rati Ram, Kyklos'It is impossible in a short review to do real justice to Roy's impressive collection of data . . . . his case studies will certainly become an important reference source for economists. . .' -- Hans Ulrich Esslinger, Review of Political Economy'The book provides a forceful critique of 50 years of development thinking and the international institutional largely responsible for implementing it. It offers important insights into the workings of the international political economy and the resulting marginalization of a large part of the population of the world.' -- Jerker Carlsson, Journal of Developing AreasTable of ContentsPart 1 Lessons of overall post-war development experience 1945-1989. Part 2 Economic progress and development - the domestic level: case outline; Nigeria - the case of an open economy; India - the case of a closed economy; development in open and closed economies - insights from India and Nigeria. Part 3 The 1990s - on to fortune or bound in miseries.

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Book SynopsisIn Institutions, Inflation and Unemployment, Edward J. Amadeo investigates the relationship between inflation and distributive conflict among social groups in an environment of pervasive uncertainty. Professor Amadeo considers theoretical, institutional and empirical aspects of a problem, chronic and very high inflation, which has been at the heart of the economic crisis in Brazil during the last 15 years. After analysing economic models of wage and price determination in regimes of high inflation, the author examines institutional approaches to the organization of unions and the structure of wage bargains - with emphasis on the centralization of bargains - and concludes with a discussion and empirical assessment of the relation between wage bargaining and inflation in Brazil.Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with a rigorous study of Brazil’s recent period of rampant inflation, Professor Amadeo offers both theoretical and applied economists a series of informed and significant insights into the phenomenon of inflation.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Inflation and Real Wages 3. Wage Determination in Economics with High Inflation 4. A Macroeconomic Analysis of Inflation and Stabilization 5. Union Attitudes, Social Structures and Wage Restrain 6. The Institutional Basis of Wage Bargaining in Brazil 7. Macroeconomic Crisis, the Labour Market and Distribution in Brazil

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Book SynopsisMeghnad Desai's work presents a significant challenge to economics as currently practised. Poverty, Famine and Economic Development brings together essays which reflect his long-standing interest in economic development. Issues discussed include econometric testing of the disguised unemployment hypothesis, theoretical and applied approaches to famine, poverty in rich as well as poor countries, poverty in Latin America and state involvement in economic development. The volume also includes a discussion of the essay by Lenin which was the basis of the 'New Economic Policy', the first attempt at Market Socialism in the Soviet Union.The volume also includes a substantial autobiographical preface, in which Lord Desai explains how he became an economist and the influences behind the development of his thought, as well as a specific introduction explaining how he came to produce the papers included in this volume.Trade Review'. . . a useful reference for those involved in teaching and researching poverty and famine.' -- J. G. Copestake, Economic JournalTable of ContentsA test of the hypothesis of disguised unemployment; an econometric approach to the measurement of poverty; the role of exchange and market relationships in the economics of the transition period - Lenin on the tax in kind; economic alternatives for labour; the economics of famine; drawing the line - on defining the poverty threshold; storytelling and formalism in economics - the instance of famine; rice and fish - assymetric preferences and entitlement failures in food growing economics with non-food producers; homilies of a Victorian sage - a review article on Peter Bauer; is state control necessary for economic development in the third world; a generla theory of poverty? - a review article; consumption and pollution; poverty and capability - towards an empirically implementable measure; methodological problems in the measurement of poverty in Latin America.

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Book SynopsisWith the increasingly evident and widespread impact of economic activity on the environment, there is a growing concern in all parts of the world for environmental considerations to be more fully reflected in economic decision-making. The Polluter-Pays, User-Pays and Precautionary principles are increasingly being used as guidelines for environmental policy, and yet their developmental implications have barely been explored.Fair Principles for Sustainable Development is one of the first books to study the developmental implications of these basic tenets of environmental policy. Having assessed the merits, drawbacks and technical feasibility for developing countries of applying the Polluter-Pays and User-Pays principles, the contributors then examine the Precautionary principle from the same perspective. This is followed by discussion of Subsidiarity, which offers guidance on the application of these principles and aims to ensure that local interests are articulated and incorporated in the decision-making process. Finally an overview by the editor draws the material together to support the application of these principles, particularly in international trade and global environmental agreements, to serve the sustainable development in the Third World.As an important early contribution to the debate on the application of Polluter-Pays, User-Pays and Precautionary principles in development policy, as well as one of the first books to discuss the application of the subsidiarity principle to environmental policy, Fair Principles for Sustainable Development will be welcomed by researchers, students and policymakers attempting to come to terms with a new, important, but little understood, area.Trade Review'. . . useful study .' -- Paul Horsnell, Journal of Energy Literature

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Book SynopsisMarkets and the state are usually seen as opposed to each other as instruments of economic development. This important new book attempts to go beyond the state-market debate, which it sees as largely the intellectual legacy of neoclassical economics, and the related pendulum swings of opinion favouring one against the other. Arguing that development can be hindered and fostered by both the state and markets, the contributing authors suggest that the real challenge is not to choose between them but to find ways in which their virtues can be utilized jointly to further the goals of development. The first part provides some general perspectives which critically analyse mainstream neoclassical views on states and markets while also providing some alternative approaches. The contributors to the second part examine state-market interaction in Latin America, South Korea and India.Trade Review'Overall this volume is extremely interesting, well referenced and an excellent read for students and specialists in the area of economics and politics.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. The State, Markets and Development (The Editors) 2. International Competitiveness: the State and the Market (I.U. Haque) 3. State Intervention and the ‘Market-Friendly’ Approach to Development: a Critical Analysis of the World Bank Theses (A. Singh) 4. Public Enterprises, Private Enterprises and the State: Prospects under Post-Socialism (L. Taylor) 5. Sisyphus among the Neoliberals: on Privatization and Rolling back the Latin American State (D. Felix) 6. Market Reform and the Changing Role of the State in Mexico: a Historical Perspective (J.C. Moreno and J. Ros) 7. The Public–Private Interface: Brazil’s Business–Government Relations in Historical Perspective, 1950–90 (H. Shapiro) 8. Market Miracle and State Stagnation? The Development Experience of South Korea and India Compared (A.K. Dutt and K.S. Kim)

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Book SynopsisDebt, Deficits and Exchange Rates presents recent work by Helmut Reisen on current international monetary problems in East Asia and Latin America. Written over the last four years, these papers are readily accessible and of immediate policy relevance. The first part is concerned with the debt problems of developing countries, including the growth of domestic public debt, means of hedging a country's debt portfolio against key currency fluctuations, evidence on the debt overhang hypothesis, an evaluation of the Brady Plan, and how to attract foreign direct investment. This is followed by essays on financial opening which discuss the impact of alternative exchange rate regimes during financial integration, the degree of financial openness in Korea and Taiwan, an appropriate strategy for the liberalization of capital flows, and the relationship between financial opening and capital flows. The final part underlines the need for exchange rate management. Issues considered include New Zealand's experience with a pure float, the use of the theory of optimal currency areas to assess whether Asian countries should peg to the Yen, institutional features of macroeconomic management in Asia, and how Latin America should respond to heavy capital flows.Bringing together under one cover a wealth of analysis, comment and argument by a leading international scholar, this volume will be welcomed by students, teachers and policymakers as an important contribution to understanding international monetary problems in the developing world.Trade Review'The collection of essays would provide an excellent supplement to course texts by emphasising the practical applications of theoretical ideas to contemporary international issues.' -- Nick Snowden, The Economic Journal'. . . this volume provides an interesting collection of papers for those seeking a better understanding of the financial aspects of LDEs' relations with the rest of the world and, in particular, for those wishing to explore the vastly different experience with foreign borrowing of East Asia, on the one hand, and Latin America, on the other.' -- Ross McLeod, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature

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Book SynopsisJohn Bristow's wide-ranging review, based on primary sources, traces economic developments since the fall of Zhivkov in late 1989. The progress of the macroeconomy, sectoral developments, international relations, reform of the banking and fiscal systems, and privatization are all extensively examined by Professor Bristow. While focusing on policy and the failure of the Bulgarian political system to provide sufficient momentum for effective economic reform, this important book acknowledges the successes and recognizes the problems of framing policy in times of severe economic dysfunction.Accessible and up-to-date, The Bulgarian Economy in Transition will be welcomed by scholars, researchers and policy makers concerned with the problems of transition from planned to market economies.Trade Review'The author provides a good and detailed report on the challenges, weaknesses and dilemmas of the Bulgarian transition, focusing on the period through late 1994. This book is recommended to scholars of economics, politics and government, and regional studies. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Communist Era 2. Liberalization and Stabilization Policy: the Early Stages 3. Recent Macroeconomic Developments 4. Aspects of Industry and Agriculture 5. International Economic Relations 6. Reform of Financial Institutions 7. Fiscal Reform 8. Privatization 9. Some Reflections Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNew technologies will have an increasing effect on prospects for development and growth in the world economy. Technology and Innovation in the International Economy contains extensive and detailed assessments of two key areas of technological innovation which present both a threat and an opportunity for developing countries: microelectronics and biotechnology.The two major review essays - Jeffrey James on microelectronic technology and Martin Fransman on biotechnology - assess the impact of these new technologies on production, trade, employment and welfare in developing countries. The introduction by Charles Cooper deals with recent advances in the economics of innovation and diffusion of new technologies, and attempts to build a bridge between the study of technology in the industrial sectors of developed countries and the type of technology policy needed in the developing countries.Policymakers, researchers and students will welcome the clarity and breadth of this important volume which contains much original analysis and detailed information on a major issue confronting developing and developed nations alike.Trade Review’This book provides a valuable discussion of the existing literature on technology and innovation, both theoretical and empirical, drawing lines for its relevance to the Third World and about future research agenda in these areas.’Table of ContentsForeward - Charles Cooper. 1. Relevance of innovation studies to developing countries - Charles Cooper. 1. I Introduction. 1.2 Innovation and technological change. 1.3 Implications for developing countries. 1.4 Concluding remarks. Acknowledgements. Notes. References. 2. Biotechnology: Generation, diffusion, and policy - Martin Fransman. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 The generation of biotechnology: invention and innovation. 2.3 Economic effects of biotechnology 2.4 Implications for the third world. 2.5 Recent additions to the literature. 2.6 Towards a general research agenda. Acknowledgements. Notes. References. Annotated bibliography. For further reading. 3. Microelectronics and the Third World - Jeffrey James. 3. 1 Introduction. 3.2 Patterns of adoption and diffusion in the Third World 3.3 Impacts of microelectronics. 3.4 Policy implications and future research directions. Acknowledgements. Notes. References. For further reading.

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Book SynopsisDynamics and Income Distribution brings together Irma Adelman’s pioneering applications of econometrics, as well as papers on the poverty and income distribution implications of growth and development. The volume combines some early papers on business cycles and long swings with other pieces focusing on just economic development.With a firm emphasis on the dynamics of income inequality, this volume includes empirical study of how inequality changes with economic development and the conceptual development of dynamic indices of income inequality. Professor Adelman’s papers draw on quantitative simulation models and the experience of specific countries to discuss policies to alleviate poverty and reduce inequality. The author argues that trickle-down processes are not likely to reduce poverty sufficiently rapidly. Land reform and the equal access to education need to be focused in order to generate the initial conditions for equalizing economic development. Economic development and poverty reduction, she suggests, require an emphasis on education, on institutions determining access to jobs and resources, and on labour-intensive types of economic growth. With its companion volume, Institutions and Development Strategies, this collection of selected essays makes a significant contribution by improving access to Irma Adelman’s pioneering work on the economics and policy of development.Trade Review’The book should be compulsory reading for any researchers in economics and development studies. The rigour, depth, and profound historical knowledge of the author, along with her sympathetic humanistic approach, reminds us that economics is not just a sterile mathematical game but a study of the problems of human welfare.’- Dipak Basu, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsDynamics; poverty and income distribution.

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Book SynopsisToday the gap between rich and poor nations is larger than it has ever been in recorded history. Yet the economic hegemony of Europe was unanticipated in the fifteenth century when Europeans seemed no more advanced than their eastern counterparts.This distinguished collection of papers places present development problems in historical perspective, drawing on European experience to show what characterized the growth of the world's first industrialized continent. Topics discussed in this volume include the influence of late fertility on economic development, the roots of Latin American backwardness, economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe since 1870, macroeconomic populism and economic failure in Africa since 1960, trade and exchange rate liberalization, and the impact of technology and capital market development in a divided world.Rich Nations - Poor Nations offers a broad perspective on the development process in which authors relate historical work to the current problems of the Third World. While these papers are not anchored solely in the European past, they recognize that some positive things can be gleaned from Europe's historical experience which will be of value to developing nations.Trade Review'This book is a good example of bourgeois comparative economic history. It addresses the question of why inequality between "the west and the rest" has been increasing dramatically rather than falling as most orthodox development economists would want. The book includes some fine and useful papers, especially on the economic development of Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, and on the Schumpeterian analysis of technical progress.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. Rich Nations - Poor Nations: The Penalty of Lateness 2. The Reserve Army of the Unmarried in World Economic History: Flexible Fertility Regimes and the Wealth of Nations 3. The Roots of Latin America’s Backwardness 4. Economic Growth in Europe’s Third World: Central and Eastern Europe, 1870-1989 5. Macroeconomic Populism and Economic Failure in Africa Since 1960 6. Asian Stagnation: Real or Relative? 7. Trade and Exchange Rate Liberalization: The Experience of Turkey, Malaysia and India 8. The Role of Technology in the Creation of Rich and Poor Nations: Underdevelopment in a Schumpterian System 9. Capital Markets in a Divided World Index

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Book SynopsisMichael P. Todaro’s pioneering work on economic development has been noted for its openness to new forms of analysis, fresh methods of perceiving economic behaviour and the consideration of the complex array of ‘non-economic’ variables that assume such significance in the economic life of developing nations.Reflections on Economic Development brings together a collection of Professor Todaro’s most significant essays focused on a wide range of topics in economic development including rural - urban migration, international legal and illegal migration, population growth, technological change, education, the environment and ethics. Insightful, informative and stimulating, this collection will be welcomed by all those interested in the broad contribution made by this leading development economist.Table of ContentsPart 1 Urbanization and migration - internal and international: urbanization, rural-urban migration and urban unemployment; international migration - legal and illegal. Part 2 Education, technology and development: education and development; technology and development. Part 3 Population growth, the environment and development: population growth; environment and development. Part 4 Ethics and the meaning of development.

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Book SynopsisIn Explaining Economic Growth David Lim presents a new analytical framework for explaining the different growth performances of developing countries.Drawing on the growth experience of the newly industrializing economies of East Asia, the author begins his analysis by identifying the sources of output growth and the factors behind them. Recognizing that no one explanation of economic growth is entirely satisfactory, Professor Lim's analysis enables the strengths of existing explanations to be highlighted and used in the construction of more convincing hypothesis of economic growth. An operational framework for identifying the policies needed to produce greater economic growth is also developed.Explaining Economic Growth presents the large and often unstructured development literature within a systematic framework allowing for a series of policy-oriented conclusions. Accessible and yet rigorous, this major new book will be widely used by students, researchers and policy makers concerned with economic growth and development.Trade Review'Lim is an excellent analytic economist, rigorously examining the sources of growth and their implications for policy.' -- E.W. Nafziger, Kansas State University, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Development Performances of Developing Countries 2. Explanations of Different Growth Performances Part II: A New Analytical Framework 3. A New Framework of Analysis 4. Sources of Output Growth 5. Economic Policies for Capital Accumulation 6. Economic Policies for Human Resource Development 7. Economic Policies for Technical Progress 8. Social and Political Values for Development Part III: The Next Stage 9. A New Hypothesis? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal manufacturing has been altered by the emergence of a new approach to production which differs radically from the principles of mass production. This approach has been characterised by successful manufacturers in Asia and the West who have engaged in a continuous process to improve quality, process productivity and cost performance. The authors of Beyond Quality argue that many of the methods used by these new firms are equally suitable for manufacturers in developing countries and the transition economies of eastern and Central Europe.Using case study material from Latin America, Africa and Central Europe, the authors demonstrate that it is the skill and organization of people - rather than sophisticated equipment - which determines growth in productivity and product quality. These new forms of improvement are not dependent on economies of scale and so provide small producers with the flexibility to compete effectively against mass producers.Trade Review'Forty years ago W. Edward S. Deming helped to launch the world's first widespread application of quality control in Japan. The modern-day equivalents of those methods are now practised by successful firms and managers throughout the industrialised world. Beyond Quality will help the developing countries to do the same. It will be essential reading for those who hope to master methods of continuous improvemeitivity, upgrade methods of enterprise management and promote the goals of economic development.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Continuous Improvement in Changing Markets 2. Continuous Improvement Technologies for Developing Countries 3. Organizational Structures and Information Flows 4. Working Tools of Continuous Improvement 5. The Statistical Tools 6. Continuous Improvement in Action 7. Problems and Prospects Appendix: A Closer Look at the Statistical Tools

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Book SynopsisThe Economic Impact of New Firms in Post-Socialist Countries analyses the emergence and contribution of new entrepreneurs in the transforming economies of Eastern Europe.Small firms and new enterprises are widely assumed to play an important role in the process of economic development and transformation. The contributors to this volume investigate how far small and newly founded enterprises have compensated for losses in employment and contributed to economic recovery in Eastern Europe. With analysis based on new empirical data, this extensive volume covers the situation in Russia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia as well as East Germany. Issues covered include attempts to stimulate entrepreneurship, guidelines for successful bottom-up transformation and the prospects for new and small firms in Eastern Europe.The Economic Impact of New Firms in Post-Socialist Countries will be welcomed for its detailed, empirically-founded discussion of entrepreneurship, micro-level studies of transition, small business economics and comparative economic systems.Trade Review'Summing up, this book is a great collection of reflections on transition in Eastern Europe. It leads to a number of conclusions and recommendations for economic policy.' -- Ryszard Lawniczak, Economic SystemsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction: The Scope for Bottom-up Transformation in Post-socialist Countries (H. Brezinski, M. Fritsch) 2. The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Systems: Developed Market and Post-socialist Economies (P.D. Reynolds) 3. A Dynamic Evolutionary Perspective on Transformation (M. Keren) 4. Entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe: A Critical View (S. Arzeni) 5. Small Businesses in Russia (A. Chepurenko and A.V. Vilensky) 6. The Development of Science Parks and New Technology-Based Firms in Russia (S. Batstone and P. Westhead) 7. Big Problems of Small Businesses in Estonia (K. Haav) 8. Private Economy in an Etatist Environment: The Case of Romania (G. Hunya) 9. The Small Private Firms in Bulgaria and the Impact of the Economic Reform on their Growth and Future (T. Houbenova-Delissivkova and P. Puchev) 10. The Nature and Performance of Small Firms in Bulgaria (D.C. Jones) 11. Small Firms in South East Europe: The Importance of Initial Conditions (W. Bartlett, P. Hoggett) 12. Poland and the Czech Republic: Privatization from Above versus Privatization from Below or Mass Privatization versus Generic Private Enterprise Building (K.J. Ners) 13. The Entrepreneurial Sector and its Role in Industrial Transformation in East Germany and Poland (H.-P. Brunner) 14. Small Entrepreneurs in the Society of Employees (R. Ruzicka) 15. How to Become an Entrepreneur in East Germany: Conditions, Steps and Effects of the Constitution of New Entrepreneurs (M. Thomas) 16. Businesses Founded in East Germany: Economic Activity and Capital Investment (T. Hinz and R. Ziegler) 17. The Bottom-up Strategy to Transformation: Summary and Policy Conclusions (H. Brezinski, M. Fritsch)

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Book SynopsisHow can economic policies be designed - and redesigned - to increase growth and reduce unemployment in developing, developed and transitional economies? In The State and the Economic Process, a distinguished group of economists provides - through a comparison of postwar economic performance and policies - sound analytical support and historical evidence in favour of vigorous market guiding policies. These include targeting strategic industries, carefully managing both market collusion and competition, promoting environmentally sound technical change, and managing foreign trade and investment. The papers featured in this volume address such issues as widespread unemployment in the OECD, the deep and protracted contraction in the transitional economies, and the large variety in growth performance in developing countries. The authors go beyond the usual advocacy of the market as the solution to most economic problems, while avoiding the stale controversy over 'market failure' versus 'government failure'.Trade Review'. . . generally well-written and stimulating.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Preface Part I: The Developing Economies Part II: The OECD Economies Part III: Post-Communist Economies in Transition Part IV: A Sustainable World System

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative collection presents the key contributions on the economic history of Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the Second World War. It covers broad patterns of economic development and also focuses specifically on the zaibatsu and Japanese management techniques; technology transfer; banking and financial systems; labour, education and human capital; the economic role of Japanese women; and the economic dimensions of imperialism and war. This two-volume set brings together important texts around these themes, including less well-known work first published in Japan. It will be a valuable reference work for scholars and students of history, economics, political science and Asian studies.Trade Review’It is consequently important to conclude by praising Tolliday for his achievement, given the undoubted quality of what has been included. Moreover, he has also edited a two-volume set covering the period 1945-95, allowing those who teach this subject to provide reading lists that ought to be much more focused.’Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Introduction Steven Tolliday PART I THE PATTERN OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1. Kozo Yamamura (1973), ‘Towards a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600–1867’ 2. Susan B. Hanley (1983), ‘A High Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Fact or Fantasy?’ 3. Yasukichi Yasuba (1986), ‘Standard of Living in Japan Before Industrialization: From What Level Did Japan Begin? A Comment’ 4. Susan B. Hanley (1986), ‘Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Reply to Yasuba’ 5. Thomas C. Smith (1973), ‘Pre-Modern Economic Growth: Japan and the West’ 6. Kozo Yamamura (1974), ‘The Japanese Economy, 1911–1930: Concentration, Conflicts, and Crises’ 7. Kaoru Sugihara (1989), ‘Japan’s Industrial Recovery, 1931–6’ 8. Sugihara Kaoru (1990), ‘Japan as an Engine of the Asian International Economy, c. 1880–1936’ PART II LAND AND AGRICULTURE 9. Penelope Francks (1990), ‘Peasantry, Proletariat or Private Enterprise? – The Japanese Farmer in the Industrialisation Process’ 10. Osamu Saito (1986), ‘The Rural Economy: Commercial Agriculture, By-Employment, and Wage Work’ 11. Loren Brandt (1993), ‘Interwar Japanese Agriculture: Revisionist Views on the Impact of the Colonial Rice Policy and the Labor-Surplus Hypothesis’ 12. Ann Waswo (1974), ‘The Origins of Tenant Unrest’ PART III MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEM A General 13. Keiichiro Nakagawa (1993), ‘Business Management in Japan – A Comparative Historical Study’ 14. Hisashi Masaki (1986), ‘The Formation and Evolution of the Corporate Business System in Japan’ 15. Tsunehiko Yui (1988), ‘Development, Organization, and Business Strategy of Industrial Enterprises in Japan (1915–1935)’ B Zaibatsu 16. Kozo Yamamura (1967), ‘The Founding of Mitsubishi: A Case Study in Japanese Business History’ 17. Seiichiro Yonekura (1985), ‘The Emergence of the Prototype of Enterprise Group Capitalism: The Case of Mitsui’ 18. Hisashi Masaki (1978), ‘The Financial Characteristics of the Zaibatsu in Japan: The Old Zaibatsu and Their Closed Finance’ 19. Kozo Yamamura (1976), ‘General Trading Companies in Japan: Their Origins and Growth’ C Non-Zaibatsu Business Development 20. Tessa Morris-Suzuki (1992), ‘Sericulture and the Origins of Japanese Industrialization’ 21. Steven J. Ericson (1989), ‘Private Railways in the Meiji Era: Forerunners of Modern Japanese Management?’ 22. Tetsuji Okazaki (1987), ‘The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1929–33, and the Establishment of the Nippon Steel Co.’ 23. W. Miles Fletcher III (1996), ‘The Japan Spinners Association: Creating Industrial Policy in Meiji Japan’ 24. William Mass and Hideaki Miyajima (1993), ‘The Organization of the Developmental State: Fostering Private Capabilities and the Roots of the Japanese "Miracle"’ PART IV MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 25. Tetsuro Nakaoka (1991), ‘The Transfer of Cotton Manufacturing Technology from Britain to Japan’ 26. Kozo Yamamura (1986), ‘Japan’s Deus ex Machina: Western Technology in the 1920s’ 27. Mark Mason (1990), ‘With Reservations: Prewar Japan as Host to Western Electric and ITT’ Name Index Volume II: Acknowledgements Introduction Steven Tolliday PART I BANKING AND FINANCE 1. Hugh T. Patrick (1967), ‘Japan, 1868–1914’ 2. Kozo Yamamura (1972), ‘Japan 1868–1930: A Revised View’ 3. Kanji Ishii (1991), ‘Japan’ 4. W. Miles Fletcher III (1991), ‘Japanese Banks and National Economic Policy, 1920–1936’ PART II EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL 5. R.P. Dore (1964), ‘Education: Japan’ 6. Koji Taira (1971), ‘Education and Literacy in Meiji Japan: An Interpretation’ 7. James R. Bartholomew (1978), ‘Japanese Modernization and the Imperial Universities, 1876–1920’ PART III LABOUR 8. Akiko Chimoto (1986), ‘Employment in the Meiji Period: From "Tradition" to "Modernity"’ 9. Thomas C. Smith (1984), ‘The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890–1920’ 10. E. Patricia Tsurumi (1984), ‘Female Textile Workers and the Failure of Early Trade Unionism in Japan’ 11. Andrew Gordon (1989), ‘Business and the Corporate State: The Business Lobby and Bureaucrats on Labor, 1911–41’ 12. Ron Napier (1982), ‘The Transformation of the Japanese Labor Market, 1894–1937’ 13. Yasukichi Yasuba (1976), ‘The Evolution of Dualistic Wage Structure’ 14. Andrew Gordon (1990), ‘Japanese Labor Relations During the Twentieth Century’ PART IV WOMEN 15. Sharon H. Nolte and Sally Ann Hastings (1991), ‘The Meiji State’s Policy Towards Women, 1890–1910’ 16. Janet Hunter (1990), ‘Women’s Labour Force Participation in Interwar Japan’ 17. Kathleen Uno (1993), ‘One Day at a Time: Work and Domestic Activities of Urban Lower-Class Women in Early Twentieth-Century Japan’ 18. Robert J. Smith (1983), ‘Making Village Women into "Good Wives and Wise Mothers" in Prewar Japan’ PART V IMPERIALISM AND WAR 19. K. Yamamura (1977), ‘Success Illgotten? The Role of Meiji Militarism in Japan’s Technological Progress’ 20. Kaoru Sugihara (1997), ‘The Economic Motivations Behind Japanese Aggression in the Late 1930s: Perspectives of Freda Utley and Nawa Toichi’ 21. Peter Duus (1989), ‘Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895–1937’ 22. Masaru Udagawa (1990), ‘The Move into Manchuria of the Nissan Combine’ 23. Richard Rice (1979), ‘Economic Mobilization in Wartime Japan: Business, Bureaucracy, and the Military in Conflict’ 24. Takao Shiba (1994), ‘Business Activities of Japanese Manufacturing Industries During World War II’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on one of the major challenges facing countries in Eastern Europe, namely the creation and maintenance of jobs in the agricultural sector. It argues that future employment will critically depend upon the completion of the privatization process, as well as improved efficiency and market opportunity. Privatization in Rural Eastern Europe prescribes radical restructuring of the East European countryside and examines the future prospects for restitution and privatization from both national and regional perspectives. The economic and political history of rural Eastern Europe is examined in the context of the transition process. The discussion then develops with the extensive use of detailed country case studies which analyse the growth of private economic activity in Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia in a clear and systematic way. The book offers careful consideration of the future of the rural economy and emphasizes the importance of rural diversification and the development of the service sector to create new employment opportunities in rural areas.This book will prove invaluable to academics with an interest in agricultural and transitional economics as well as to businessmen interested in East European agriculture, food processing and farm machinery.Trade Review'The present volume . . . should be warmly welcomed as an important addition to the limited literature on rural and agricultural transition. . . . the book provides authoritative country case studies and comprehensive lists of references. It can and should be used as an important source of relevant information on the behavior of the rural sector during transition in the nine countries of east central Europe. It faithfully captures and presents the main changes and trends faced by the rural population at large, without restricting the discussion exclusively to agriculture and farming. . . . The range of topics is such that the volume will be useful to scholars of a broad profile, including economists, sociologists, and political scientists. The level of presentation makes the book suitable both for advanced researchers and for graduate students. Researchers with empirical leanings will find much useful raw data in the country studies. Theoreticians will find descriptions of general trends and processes that may provide useful insights to begin developing a theory of rural transition. In summary, this work is an important addition to the empirical literature on agricultural and rural transition.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Albania 3. Bulgaria 4. Czech Republic 5. East Germany 6. Hungary 7. Poland 8. Romania 9. Slovakia 10. Slovenia 11. Aspects of Farm Diversification 12. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis important volume brings together seventeen major essays written by A.P. Thirlwall over the last twenty five years in the field of growth and development.Many of these papers make pioneering contributions, such as the author's formalization of Kaldor's two-sector growth model, his models of growth constrained by the balance of payments, his testing of the IMF's supply side approach to devaluation, and his development of models of inflation, population and economic growth.Other essays are more reflective and eclectic, such as papers on Keynes and economic development, on the terms of trade and international debt, as well as an essay in praise of development economics. The volume also includes an extensive introductory essay in which Professor Thirlwall explains how he became a development economist.The Economics of Growth and Development will be welcomed by economists and policy makers for presenting an authoritative volume of Professor Thirlwall's most important essays and papers in development economics, some of which are in foreign journals and not readily available in many university libraries.Trade Review'A useful reference volume, bringing together some of the author's most important work for the first time.' -- Aslib Book Guide'The Economics of Growth and Development serves as a useful reminder of the author's contribution to the discipline - this is a stimulating (and occasionally provocative) collection which should be of interest to more advanced students of the subject.' -- The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. In Praise of Development Economics 2. Keynes, Economic Development and the Developing Countries 3. A General Model of Growth and Development on Kaldorian Lines 4. Foreign Trade Elasticities in Centre-Periphery Models of Growth and Development 5. The Balance of Payments Constraint, Capital Flows and Growth Rate Differences Between Developing Countries 6. Dual Gap Analysis for the Sudan 7. The IMF Supply Side Approach to Devaluation: An Assessment with Reference to the Sudan 8. Inflation and the Savings Ratio Across Countries 9. Population Growth and Economic Development 10. A Cross Section Study of Population Growth and the Growth of Output and Pwr Capital Income in a Production Function Framework 11. Reconciling the Conflict Between Employment and Savings and Employment and Output in the Choice of Techniques in Developing Countries 12. The Terms of Trade, Debt and Development: With Particular Reference to Africa 13. Trends, Cycles and Asymmetries in the Terms of Trade of Primary Commodities from Developed and Less Developed Countries 14. When is Trade More Valuable than Aid? 15. Foreign Debt and Economic Development 16. An International Comparison of the Causes of Changes in the Debt Service Ratio 1980–85 17. An Analysis of Changes in the Debt Service Ratio for 96 Countries 1986–90 Index

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Book SynopsisIn Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries, Trevor Sikorski challenges conventional financial liberalization theory by using a more complete view of the money creation process in developing countries. This book seeks to develop a theoretical framework for successful analysis of monetary and financial policy in developing countries.By emphasizing the inter-relationships and institutional structures which characterize the monetary transmission mechanism, Dr Sikorski shows how a policy of full financial liberalization is largely unsustainable in a developing economy. Assuming an endogenous money supply, this analysis is able to take greater account of adjustment costs from financial liberalization. Case studies are presented for South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, in order to assess the experiences of these countries in an endogenous money framework.Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries will be welcomed for offering a coherent and unified theoretical framework capable of explaining the way monetary policy works in repressed and liberalized financial regimes.Trade Review'Those interested in development economics will welcome this book for its coherent explanation of the ways in which monetary policy works in both repressed and liberalized financial regimes.' -- CIB News'An excellent work which also provides case studies for South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to assess their experiences in an endogenous money framework.'– ASLIB Book GuideTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Endogeneity vs Exogeneity – A Monetary Debate 3. Financial Repression and Liberalization 4. The New Structuralists and Beyond 5. An Alternative: An Application of Post-Keynesian Economics 6. Short-Run Macroeconomics: Adjustment to Financial Liberalization 7. Experiences of Financial Liberalization in the Pacific Basin 8. Conclusions and Policy Directions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe strategic management of socio-economic systems is becoming increasingly difficult with traditional economic models which are unable to handle environmental and technological factors. In Evolutionary Dynamics and Sustainable Development, Norman Clark, Francisco Perez-Trejo and Peter Allen offer a new approach which emphasizes the evolutionary nature of socio-economic systems. This major book begins with a critical evaluation of conventional economic approaches to development planning and then explores how modern general systems theory can show economic development as a process of structural change. The discussion includes the use of decision tools which can simultaneously handle spatial and temporal evolution. The authors develop a model which they explore through case studies of both Senegal and Crete. The model is combined with risk analysis to show how it can be used in computer-based scenarios, before its properties as an aid to decision making are summarized in the last chapter.Defining development as a process of structural change in economic systems rather than in terms of economic output, this volume will be welcomed for its advocacy of non-linear models as decision tools and for its special reference to issues of economic development and environmental stability in Third World countries.Trade Review’The discussions in the book do an excellent job of explaining the type of interactive model that will be needed for sustainable development policy.’ -- R.V. O’Neill, Ecological Economics’This book provides a clear and insightful discussion of these issues and is important reading to those concerned with the complexity of cities.’– M. Batty, Environment and PlanningTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Modelling Sustainable Development 2. The Nature of Systems 3. Economic Systems 4. Spatial Modelling 5. The Model as a Decision Tool (A Crete Case Study) 6. An Agenda for the Future Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisAuthoritative and contemporary research on the economic expansion of Southern China is collected in this major new volume which explores models and patterns of development in Guangdong, with particular emphasis on the differences across this economically vibrant region. Economic and Social Development in South China brings together research by a pioneering team of academic researchers and includes statistical data on the Pearl River Delta as well as analysis of the metropolitan development in Guangzhou municipal city, civil service reform and social policy in Shenzhen, Guangzhou's municipal leadership and the basic level elections in the region since 1979. Other issues discussed include foreign outward direct investment from Guangdong, the creation of effective environmental law, foreign investment in Guangdong and the emergence of private education in the Pearl River Delta.Southern China's creative approaches to the difficulties and problems encountered since reforms began in the 1970s is rigorously analysed and explored by scholars with exceptional access to local sources and data. Economic and Social Development in South China shows how the use of competing models of economic development encouraged by the authorities will influence and shape the future of the country as a whole.Trade Review'. . . the volume remains a useful addition to the burgeoning literature on Chinese development which will be of interest to all scholars in this field.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface (J.Y.S.Cheng) 1. Measuring Economic and Social Development: Statistical Data on the Pearl River Delta (S. MacPherson, K.-Y. Lau) 2. Structures and Functions of Town and Township Governments in Guangdong (J.Y.S. Cheng) 3. Civil Service Reform in Shenzhen: Expectations and Problems (A.B.L. Cheung) 4. The Basic-Level Elections in Guangzhou Since 1979 (K.-K. Leung) 5. Guangzhou’s Municipal Leadership and Development Strategy in the 1990s (P. Cheung) 6. Strategy and Motivation for PRC Outward Direct Investments with Particular Reference to Enterprises from the Pearl River Delta (C.-S. Tseng, S.K.M. Mak) 7. Foreign Investments as an Engine of Economic Growth: the case of Guangdong (X. Zhang, W.-S. Hung 8. Individual Economy in the Pearl River Delta Region: A Study on Dongguan, Guangzhou, Zongshan and Nanhai (W.-N. Ho) 9. Welfare in a Stratified Immigrant Society – Shenzhen’s Social Policy Challenge (L. Wong, G. Lee) 10. Social Status of Occupations in Guangzhou (C.C.H. Chiu, H. Cai) 11. The Emergence of Private Education in the Pearl River Delta: Implications for Social Development (K.-H. Mok, D. Chan) 12. Ecology and Economic Reform: Towards an Effective Environmental Law in Southern China? (B. Bachner) 13. Reforms of Metropolitan Development in Guangzhou Municipal City (R.C.K. Chan, C. Gu) Index

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Book SynopsisThe techniques and methods of project appraisal in developing countries have been considerably expanded and refined since they were first introduced in the late 1960s. This up-to-date and authoritative survey volume demonstrates the ways in which cost-benefit analysis has developed in response to changes in economic circumstances and conditions over the past three decades.An international group of academic and professional economists covers areas including problems in the practical application of cost-benefit techniques by international agencies, the treatment of income distribution, discounting, the effects method, the logical framework as a complement to project appraisal, aid tying, risk criteria in decision making, benefit valuation in the water sector, the appraisal of technical assistance projects, privatization in transition economies and shadow pricing in transition economies. Professor Kirkpatrick and Professor Weiss have prepared an insightful overview essay introducing the broad selection of work presented in this volume.Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Appraisal in Developing Countries will be welcomed by academic and professional economists working on project appraisal in the context of the economic problems of developing and transitional economies.Trade Review'For those wanting a succinct overview of a wide range of issues in project appraisal, not only cost-benefit analysis itself but also the Effects Method favoured in French-speaking countries, the logical framework, and Project-Cycle Management, this book is extremely useful.' -- Charles Harvey, Botswana Institute of Development Policy Analysis'. . . an enjoyable volume, with a high proportion of readable and useful papers, that should find favour with teachers and practitioners alike.'– Howard White, The Manchester SchoolTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction Part II: Perspectives on Cost–Benefit Analysis Part III: Cost–Benefit Analysis: Methodological Issues Part IV: Practical Applications Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, privatisation has been a key policy instrument in the move to more market-based economic systems in all parts of the developing world. Privatisation, however, has not necessarily been accompanied by an increase in market competition. In recent years, many public utilities have been privatised as monopolies and in addition regulatory systems have been developed to restrict their market power and protect the interests of consumers. These authoritative volumes bring together a collection of important papers that have shed new theoretical and empirical insights into privatisation and regulation and have provided new policy perspectives in relation to developing countries. Privatisation in Developing Countries will appeal to policymakers and researchers at the forefront of economic policy debates in developing countries.Trade Review’These volumes not only serve as essential reference works for students but also contain thought-provoking articles on the chosen themes.’Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction PART I PRIVATISATION AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 1. Nicholas Kaldor (1980), ‘Public or Private Enterprise – the Issues to be Considered’ 2. Leroy P. Jones and Edward S. Mason (1982), ‘Role of Economic Factors in Determining the Size and Structure of the Public-Enterprise Sector in Less-Developed Countries with Mixed Economies’ 3. World Bank (1983), ‘Managing State-Owned Enterprises’ 4. Mahmood A. Ayub and Sven O. Hegstad (1987), ‘Management of Public Industrial Enterprises’ 5. John F. Coburn and Lawrence H. Wortzel (1986), ‘The Problem of Public Enterprise in Developing Countries: Is Privatization the Solution?’ 6. Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (1988), ‘Privatisation in Less Developed Countries: An Overview’ 7. Nicolas Van De Walle (1989), ‘Privatization in Developing Countries: A Review of the Issues’ 8. William Glade (1989), ‘Privatization in Rent-Seeking Societies’ 9. Heidi Vernon-Wortzel and Lawrence H. Wortzel (1989), ‘Privatization: Not the Only Answer’ 10. David Heald (1990), ‘The Relevance of Privatization to Developing Economies’ 11. Jose Edgardo Campos and Hadi Salehi Esfahani (1996), ‘Why and When Do Governments Initiate Public Enterprise Reform?’ PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRIVATISATION 12. Yair Aharoni (1982), ‘State-Owned Enterprise: An Agent Without a Principal’ 13. John Vickers and George Yarrow (1988), ‘Ownership and Incentives’ 14. John Vickers and George Yarrow (1988), ‘Competitive Forces’ 15. Carl Shapiro and Robert D. Willig (1990), ‘Economic Rationales for the Scope of Privatization’ 16. Dieter Bös and Wolfgang Peters (1991), ‘A Principal-Agent Approach on Manager Effort and Control in Privatized and Public Firms’ 17. Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1996), ‘A Theory of Privatisation’ 18. Stephen Martin and David Parker (1997), ‘Privatisation: The Conceptual Framework’ 19. George Yarrow (1999), ‘A Theory of Privatization, or Why Bureaucrats are Still in Business’ PART III REGULATION THEORY AND POLICY 20. David E.M. Sappington and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1987), ‘Information and Regulation’ 21. Robert D. Willig (1993), ‘Public versus Regulated Private Enterprise’ 22. Leroy P. Jones (1993), ‘Appropriate Regulatory Technology: The Interplay of Economic and Institutional Conditions’ PART IV COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES 23. Robert Millward and David M. Parker (1983), ‘Public and Private Enterprise: Comparative Behaviour and Relative Efficiency’ 24. Yair Aharoni (1986), ‘Measuring the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises’ 25. Peter Nunnenkamp (1986), ‘State Enterprises in Developing Countries’ 26. Robert Millward (1988), ‘Measured Sources of Inefficiency in the Performance of Private and Public Enterprises in LDCs’ Name Index Volume II: Acknowledgements • An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in volume I PART I POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF PRIVATISATION 1. Henry Bienen and John Waterbury (1989), ‘The Political Economy of Privatization in Developing Countries’ 2. Paul Cook and Martin Minogue (1990), ‘Waiting for Privatization in Developing Countries: Towards the Integration of Economic and Non-Economic Explanations’ 3. Mary M. Shirley (1997), ‘The Economics and Politics of Government Ownership’ 4. Paul Cook (1997), ‘Privatization, Public Enterprise Reform and the World Bank: Has “Bureaucrats in Business” Got It Right?’ PART II EXPERIENCE WITH REGULATION 5. Brian Levy and Pablo T. Spiller (1993), ‘Regulation, Institutions, and Committment in Telecommunications: A Comparative Analysis of Five Country Studies’ 6. Björn Wellenius and Peter A. Stern (1994), ‘Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector: Background, Overview, and Lessons’ PART III RESULTS OF PRIVATISATION 7. Richard Hemming and Ali M. Mansoor (1988), ‘Privatization and Public Enterprises’ 8. Ali Mansoor (1988), ‘The Fiscal Impact of Privatisation’ 9. Ahmed Galal, Leroy Jones, Pankaj Tandon and Ingo Vogelsang (1994), ‘Divestiture: Questions and Answers’ 10. Christopher Adam (1994), ‘Privatization and Structural Adjustment in Africa’ 11. Frank Sader (1995), ‘Privatizing Public Enterprises and Foreign Investment in Developing Countries, 1988–93’ 12. Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (1995), ‘Privatisation Policy and Performance’ 13. Armando Castelar Pinheiro and Ben Ross Schneider (1995), ‘The Fiscal Impact of Privatisation in Latin America’ 14. V. Bhaskar and Mushtaq Khan (1995), ‘Privatization and Employment: A Study of the Jute Industry in Bangladesh’ 15. Patrick Plane (1997), ‘Privatization and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation from a Sample of Developing Market Economies’ 16. Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (1998), ‘Privatization, Employment and Social Protection in Developing Countries’ 17. Sunita Kikeri (1998), ‘Privatization and Labor: What Happens to Workers When Governments Divest?’ 18. Narjess Boubakri and Jean-Claude Cosset (1998), ‘The Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms: Evidence from Developing Countries’ 19. William L. Megginson, Robert C. Nash and Matthias Van Randenborgh (1994), ‘The Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms: An International Empirical Analysis’ PART IV LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE 20. Colin Kirkpatrick (1988), ‘The UK Privatisation Model: Is it Transferable to Developing Countries?’ 21. Sunita Kikeri, John Nellis and Mary Shirley (1994), ‘Privatization: Lessons from Market Economies’ 22. Paul Bennell (1997), ‘Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the 1990s’ 23. C.C. White and A. Bhatia (1998), ‘Assessing Privatization Programs in Africa’ Name Index

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