Product Description: In the last two decades, the role of finance in the development process has become a major topic of research and debate. Although it is widely agreed that there is an important link between the two, there is much less consensus on the exact nature of the relationship...read more

Product Description: This handbook on international development policy and management covers a broad spectrum of contemporary topics across all the major areas of interest. With over 40 chapters, the book comprehensively explores the many themes and issues of significance for both policy and implementation, and provides easily accessible reference material on current practice and research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text focuses on the experience of the development of a dynamic private enterprise sector in developing countries and transitional economies. The discussion considers privatization, foreign investment and the ownership of small and medium-sized firms in different countries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This up-to-date survey demonstrates the ways in which cost benefit analysis has developed in response to changes in economic circumstances and conditions over the past three decades. It covers areas including discounting, the effects method and aid trying. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reorientation from economic controls to a market-based approach led to significant changes in the economic policy of developing countries in the 1980s. Yet, with governments continuing to exercise economic management to accelerate growth beyond that achieved by market forces, techniques and models of development planning are still an integral feature of development policy management. Development Policy and Planning provides a non-technical explanation of the main techniques and models used for economic policy formulation. Each technique is illustrated in application through practical examples.

Product Description: First published in 1984, this textbook analyses, at both aggregate and micro economic levels, the contemporary industrial conditions in Third World countries and relates this to the process of economic growth and structural transformation...read more