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Explores the transformation in the availability and use of credit among the less prosperous strata of Southeast Asian societies. This book deals with the microfinance sector and looks at informal moneylending, rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), cooperatives, pawnshops, shopkeeper credit, and advance crop payments.

This edition provides an introduction to economic development, covering the major issues, including Third World debt, income distribution and environmental problems. Its issue-based approach makes it suitable for A Level and first-year undergraduate students.

China and India rank among the world's largest economies, moving towards the centre stage of the global economy. This book shows how, in this process, different priorities have been placed on economic reforms - with China taking a more outward strategy and India a more inward one. It provides insight for other developing economies.

The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 19602000 is by far the most ambitious and comprehensive assessment of Africas post-independence economic performance to date. Volume 1 examines the impact of resource wealth and geographical remoteness on Africas growth and develops a new dataset of governance regimes.

Containing theoretical chapters and six country case study chapters, this book sets out some of the principles that are critical to success in regional cooperation and the ways APEC can promote structural reform efforts in APEC economies.

Explores the important topic of fiscal decentralization in Asian countries, and focuses on how government finance and administration are being reformed to bring budgetary decisions closer to voters.

Offers readers with insights into the theoretical foundations of targeting as well as empirical methods, and also approaches for using the community-level analysis to affect policy directions. This book includes papers that present issues surrounding community economic development and clusters in industry and rural communities.

Policy Challenges Facing the Third Phase Government. Published for the prestigious Economic and Social Research Foundation, this review comes at a significant time in Tanzania's history. The death of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere (founding father of Tanzania and dominant political figure for four decades) marks the end of an era, just as the new century begins; the Third Phase Government completes its ..

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The authors defend the `basic needs' approach to economic development which has been the subject of controversy and suspicion among many groups.

Theatre can play a significant role in addressing issues of power in social, political and cultural relationships and acting as a catalyst for personal and societal change. Enacting Participation advocates the use of theatre in participatory development as a way for groups to discover their own goals and aspirations and aspirations and to develop strategies for improving their lives based on need

Presents an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty, independent from the conceptual origin, size and qualitative as well as quantitative nature of the primary indicators used to describe the poverty of an individual, household or socio-demographic entity.

Explores modern China and its fundamental contradictions, as a communist state where business is booming, as a nation that continues to support North Korea even as it develops its relationships with the West. This book gives an introduction to the country.

Advances our understanding of the relative importance of technology diffusion through trade and foreign direct investment.

Examines the opportunities and constraints of environmental leapfrogging in Asia by zooming in on several country cases: China, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan. The world has witnessed the profound transformation of China, Vietnam, Taiwan and Singapore from impoverished developing regions into strong and internationally competitive economies.

Examines the long-term economic growth that has raised the West's material living standards to levels undreamed of by counterparts. This book argues that this growth has been driven by periodic technological revolutions that have transformed the West's economic, social and political landscape over time.

This volume brings together a selection of papers that were prepared as background analyses for a collaborative research capacity-building project, focusing on the WTO negotiating agenda.