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Ethnic Business: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia

Product Description: The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development in the region has been hotly debated. This book examines the key features attributed to Chinese business: business-government relations, the family firm, trust and networks, and supposed Asian values...read more

By Brian C. Folk and K. S. Jomo

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9780415310116 | Routledge, October 1, 2003, cover price $180.00

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9781138811072 | Routledge, June 19, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development in the region has been hotly debated.

Miscellaneous:

9780203412312 | Routledge, June 1, 2002, cover price $39.95

Islamic Economic Alternatives: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9781349122899 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $99.00

Is Good Governance Good for Development?

Product Description: Whilst good governance is a worthy goal by itself, this book argues that it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development. Challenging the conventional good governance paradigm favoured by the donor community, this book exposes the methodological shortcomings of the commonly-used governance indicators developed within the World Bank...read more

By Anis Chowdhury (editor) and K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9781780932217 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 2, 2012, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: While good governance is a worthy goal, this book argues that it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development.

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9781780932224 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 2013, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Whilst good governance is a worthy goal by itself, this book argues that it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development.

Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies

Product Description: Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This collection argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy prescriptions...read more

By Anis Chowdhury (editor) and K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9781849664172 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 21, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world.

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9781849666183 | United Nations Pubns, May 2, 2011, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies.

Reforming the International Financial System for Development

Product Description: The 1944 Bretton Woods conference created new institutions for international economic governance. Though flawed, the system led to a golden age in postwar reconstruction, sustained economic growth, job creation, and postcolonial development...read more

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9780231157643 | Columbia Univ Pr, January 15, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The 1944 Bretton Woods conference created new institutions for international economic governance.

Outlines & Highlights for Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality by Jomo K.s.

By K. S. Jomo

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9781617443824 | Academic Internet Pub Inc, December 20, 2010, cover price $31.95

Economic Liberalisation and Development in Africa

Product Description: In this endnote address delivered at the 11th General Assembly of CODESRIA, held in Maputo in 2005, Sundaram notes that over three decades of economic stagnation, contraction and increased poverty have taken a huge toll on Africa's economic, social and political fabric; and pro-active efforts are urgently required in order to build new capacities and capabilities for development...read more

By K. S. Jomo

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9782869782570 | Conseil Pour Le Developement De LA, December 30, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this endnote address delivered at the 11th General Assembly of CODESRIA, held in Maputo in 2005, Sundaram notes that over three decades of economic stagnation, contraction and increased poverty have taken a huge toll on Africa's economic, social and political fabric; and pro-active efforts are urgently required in order to build new capacities and capabilities for development.

9782869782327 | Conseil Pour Le Developement De LA, January 30, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this endnote address delivered at the 11th General Assembly of CODESRIA, held in Maputo in 2005, Sundaram notes that over three decades of economic stagnation, contraction and increased poverty have taken a huge toll on Africa's economic, social and political fabric; and pro-active efforts are urgently required in order to build new capacities and capabilities for development.

Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development

Product Description: This pioneering volume develops an institutionalist analysis of Malaysia's post-colonial economy by exploring the political economy of development and particularly the interface between economics and law. The book shows that economic policy initiatives in Malaysia have often been accompanied by corresponding legislative and regulatory reforms intended to create an appropriate legal environment, and that major legislative innovations have occurred in response to economic problems or crises arising from earlier policies...read more

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9789971693909 | 1 new edition (Singapore Univ Pr, July 31, 2008), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This pioneering volume develops an institutionalist analysis of Malaysia's post-colonial economy by exploring the political economy of development and particularly the interface between economics and law.

Towards Full and Decent Employment

Product Description: While the international community has made a commitment to achieving full employment and decent work for all, this goal seems ever more distant in view of recent trends. Revisiting some familiar terrain with new lenses, this book breaks new ground in seeking fresh solutions...read more

By K. S. Jomo (editor) and Jose Antonio Ocampo (editor)

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9781842778821 | Zed Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $144.00 | About this edition: While the international community has made a commitment to achieving full employment and decent work for all, this goal seems ever more distant in view of recent trends.

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9781842778838 | Zed Books, January 22, 2008, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: While the international community has made a commitment to achieve full employment and decent work for all, this goal seems ever more distant in view of recent trends such as growing unemployment and underemployment, the phenomenon of 'jobless growth', the increasing 'casualization' of employment relations, the promotion of labour flexibility at the expense of welfare security, de-industrialization and the continued decline of peasant agriculture.

Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences in Economic Performance

By K. S. Jomo (editor), Jose Antonio Ocampo (editor) and Rob Vos (editor)

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9781842778807 | Zed Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $144.95

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9781842778814 | Zed Books, January 22, 2008, cover price $40.95

Malaysian Industrual Policy

Product Description: 'Malaysian Indusstrial Policy' argues that selective government promotion efforts have been successful and crucial for Malaysia's industrialization despite some disastrous consequences associated with the Mahathir government's heavy industrialization program...read more

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9789971693404 | New edition (Singapore Univ Pr, October 31, 2007), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: 'Malaysian Indusstrial Policy' argues that selective government promotion efforts have been successful and crucial for Malaysia's industrialization despite some disastrous consequences associated with the Mahathir government's heavy industrialization program.

Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality

Product Description: Flat World, Big Gaps critically considers the impact of economic liberalization and globalization on inequality and poverty. The first half surveys the major analytical issues in the recent study of global inequalities. The second half of the volume surveys recent inequality trends in various parts of the world including the OECD, the USA, Eastern Europe and the CIS economies, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, India, East Asia and China...read more

By Jacques Baudot (editor) and K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9781842778333 | Zed Books, May 27, 2008, cover price $126.00 | About this edition: Flat World, Big Gaps critically considers the impact of economic liberalization and globalization on inequality and poverty.

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9781842778340 | Zed Books, May 15, 2007, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Offers a contribution to the attempt to move Development Economics beyond the dominant neo-liberal paradigm.

The New Development Economics: After The Washington Consensus

Product Description: Much is currently being made of the World Bank's apparent retreat from the neoliberal market economics of the Washington Consensus. New concepts and priorities like social capital and governance have been taken on board alongside the continuing pressures on developing countries for deregulation, privatization, free trade and so on...read more

By Ben Fine (editor) and K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9781842776421 | Zed Books, November 29, 2005, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: Much is currently being made of the World Bank's apparent retreat from the neoliberal market economics of the Washington Consensus.

The Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Economic Thought Have Addressed Development

A history of the emergence of development economics as a distinct sub-discipline.

By K. S. Jomo (editor) and Erik S. Reinert (editor)

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9781842776469 | Zed Books, March 3, 2006, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: A history of the emergence of development economics as a distinct sub-discipline.

Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Economic Thought Addressed Development

Product Description: Historically much economic thought, especially until the 1960s, has been pre-occupied with the central concerns of development economics. It is thus contemporary mainstream economics -- dominated by those with a touching faith in the virtues and infallibility of the market -- that emerges as almost exceptional when viewed in longer term historical perspective...read more

By K. S. Jomo (editor) and Erik S. Reinert (editor)

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9781842776476 | Zed Books, March 3, 2006, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Historically much economic thought, especially until the 1960s, has been pre-occupied with the central concerns of development economics.

The Pioneers Of Development Economics: Great Economists On Development

Product Description: The history of modern economic thought associated with the emergence of industrial capitalism over two centuries ago was pre-occupied with the question of economic transformation or development. This volume surveys important contributions to the economics of development by various economists, including many not normally considered as pioneers of development economics...read more

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9781842776445 | Zed Books, December 2, 2005, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: The history of modern economic thought associated with the emergence of industrial capitalism over two centuries ago was pre-occupied with the question of economic transformation or development.

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9781842776452, titled "Pioneers of Development Economics: Great Economists on Development" | Zed Books, December 2, 2005, cover price $34.95

The New Development Economics: After the Wasington Consensus

This volume provides a critique of the post-Washington Concensus in neoliberal economics.

By Ben Fine (editor) and K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9781842776438 | Zed Books, November 29, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This volume provides a critique of the post-Washington Concensus in neoliberal economics.

The Great Divergence: Hegemony, Uneven Development, and Global Inequality

Product Description: The volume consists of historical surveys of North-South cross-border economic flows and their impact on the Third World. Each chapter discusses international trade, investment, finance, and labor from the late nineteenth century to the present.

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9780195673869 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 6, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The volume consists of historical surveys of North-South cross-border economic flows and their impact on the Third World.

Globalization Under Hegemony: The Changing World Economy

Product Description: The eight papers in this volume offer a rich historical insight into the different dimensions of economic developments in the 20th century as they affect globalization. They share a common over-arching concern the growing divergence between the North and the South...read more

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9780195673852 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 6, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The eight papers in this volume offer a rich historical insight into the different dimensions of economic developments in the 20th century as they affect globalization.

Malay Nationalism Before Umno: The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain

By K. S. Jomo (editor) and Insun Sony Mustapha (trans)

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9789676116987 | Singapore Univ Pr, July 15, 2005, cover price $30.00

Malaysian "Bail Outs"?: Capital Controls, Restructuring And Recovery

By Wong Sook Ching, Chin Kok Fay and K. S. Jomo

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9789971693190 | Singapore Univ Pr, April 15, 2005, cover price $28.00

After The Storm: Crisis, Recovery And Sustaining Development In Four Asian Economies

Product Description: After the Storm discusses restructuring and growth strategies adopted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and South Korea after the currency and financial crisis of 1997-98. These four Asian economies were the most adversely affected despite achieving rapid growth in the 1970s and 1980s, with low inflation and current account surpluses...read more

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9789971693077 | Singapore Univ Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: After the Storm discusses restructuring and growth strategies adopted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and South Korea after the currency and financial crisis of 1997-98.

After The Storm: Crisis, Recovery And Sustaining Development In Four Asian Economies

By K. S. Jomo (editor)

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9789971692865 | Singapore Univ Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $28.00

Southeast Asian Paper Tigers

Product Description: This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis. With chapters written by well-established international experts in Asian economics, this book constitutes a finely judged example of the varying opinions on the matter.

By K. S. Jomo

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9780415347068 | Routledge, November 11, 2004, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis.

Deforesting Malaysia: The Political Economy and Social Ecology of Agricultural Expansion and Commercial Logging

Product Description: This study of deforestation in Malaysia's three regions examines the different factors that shape them, the institutions and policies that determine forestry development, the ecological impact of deforestation, and sustainability...read more

By Lee Hwok Aun (contributor), K. S. Jomo, Khoo K. J., James Lochhead (contributor), Colin Nicholas (contributor), Henry Loh Kee Wey (contributor) and Chang Y. T.

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9781842774663 | Zed Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This study of deforestation in Malaysia's three regions examines the different factors that shape them, the institutions and policies that determine forestry development, the ecological impact of deforestation, and sustainability.

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