Major Works: International Economics

New and Published Books

1. China and Globalization

   Edited by Linda Yueh

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   How China continues its integration with the global economy is one of today’s crucial questions, both for China’s own growth prospects and for the rest of the world contending with the still numerous developmental challenges of the world’s second-largest economy. In the first thirty years after it...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Economic Reform in Modern China

   Edited by Wei Zhang

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   It is more than three decades since China initiated its economic reform and open-door policies. During that period, China has successfully transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned economy to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. To the rest of the world, China has emerged from...

   Published May 26th 2011 by Routledge
3. Aid and Inequality in Kenya

   British Development Assistance to Kenya

   By Gerald Holtham, Arthur Hazelwood

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   This reissue, first published in 1976, considers the rapid rate of economic growth in Kenya, combined with its apparent political stability, to determine whether or not this is indeed a case of ‘growth without development’ and, if so, where the responsibility for aid lies in this situation. The...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
4. The OPEC Fund for International Development

   The Formative Years

   By Ibrahim F. I. Shihata

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   The OPEC countries’ collective policy is to offer external development assistance free from political or commercial ties, with the purpose of expressing the solidarity of one group of developing countries with the rest. Since 1976, this policy has found vigorous practical expression in the...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
5. The Economics of Aid

   By J. M. Healey

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1971, this reissue considers the main aspects of foreign aid to developing countries in terms of economic concepts and principles. The author gives an economic definition of aid and considers the motives for giving aid and the principles on which it may be allocated. He looks at...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
6. Does Aid Work in India?

   A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance

   By Michael Lipton, John Toye

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have emerged.....

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
7. Aid and Dependence

   British Aid to Malawi

   By Kathryn Morton

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1975, in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, this study examines the case for and against aid for developing nations, taking the specific example of British aid to Malawi’s economic development since independence in 1964. Kathryn Morton suggests that...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Politics of United States Foreign Aid

   By George M. Guess

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1987, this reissue explores contemporary United States foreign aid policies and thinking in the Reagan era. The author argues that aid policy is often confused as a result of bureaucratic decision-making processes. The book contrasts the experience of the many countries where...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. Development and the Debt Trap

   Economic Planning and External Borrowing in Ghana

   By Andrzej Krassowski

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   Ghana is one of the earliest and most serious examples of the build up of foreign debt by a developing country to support its policies for economic growth. This study, first published in 1974 in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, analyses Ghana’s economy over twenty years and...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
10. Images and Behaviour of Private Bank Lending to Developing Countries

    By Margee M. Ensign

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    The primary questions addressed by this study, first published in 1988, focus on how private bankers made decisions on the creditworthiness of developing countries during the 1970s and what the implications of these decision rules are for the developing countries today. Based on interviews with...

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge