Product Description: For the populations of the developing economies – the vast majority of humanity – the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation itself...read more

Product Description: This is a study of the changing rules and relationships within which natural, human and man-made resources were mobilized for production during the development of an agricultural export economy in Asante, a major West African kingdom which became, by 1945, the biggest regional contributor to Ghana's status as the world's largest cocoa producer...read more

Product Description: This study examines and compares the historical role of money-lenders and local and regional bankers in the modern economic history of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The book comprises eight regional case studies and an introductory survey and presents new research findings which challenge the conventional views that indigenous credit suppliers usually obstructed economic development in the Third World and that the supply of private credit for development purposes was virtually monopolized by Western metropolitan sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)