The Elgar Companion to the World Bank

The Elgar Companion to the World Bank

Author: Antje Vetterlein

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-09-06

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1802204784

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The Elgar Companion to The World Bank provides a comprehensive review of the past 80 years for this powerful development institution. Using different theoretical approaches from an expert group of scholars as well as practitioners, it presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the World Bank and the wider field of International Relations.


The Elgar Companion to Development Studies

The Elgar Companion to Development Studies

Author: David Clark

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 757

ISBN-13: 1847202861

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If handbooks can be inspiring, this is it! Like a true companion, it takes in its stride conversations both big and small. Its entries do not just present an international and multidisciplinary mix, but true to life they work on several different scales. And, importantly, the book makes its authority evident. For it is like an extended website, but with all the added advantages of an encyclopaedia that actually tells you about the authors and the sources on which they have drawn. The resulting compilation is highly intelligent, thoughtful and above all usable. Dame Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge, UK The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is a major production in the development studies field, authored by a star-studded cast of contributors. With 136 entries covering a vast range of topics, it should quickly establish itself as a leading work of reference. We should all feel indebted to David Clark, who has successfully brought this substantial publishing project to completion. John Toye, University of Oxford, UK This is a most comprehensive handbook on development studies. It brings together a wide, varied array of carefully crafted summaries of 136 key topics in development by an international cast of well-respected academics and other experts in respective areas of study. The handbook is heavily interdisciplinary, organically combining economic, political, historical, social, cultural, institutional, ethical, and human aspects of development. While the wide range of entries might appear as a simple glossary listing or an encyclopedic collection, each of the 136 entries offers more depth and discussion than the average handbook. . . . Viewed in this light, this companion is highly likely to become known as a leading reference work on the topic. Highly recommended. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, Choice The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers. While the Companion is organised along the lines of an encyclopaedia, each of its 136 entries provide more depth and discussion than the average reference book. Its entries are also extremely diverse: they draw on different social science disciplines, incorporate various mixes of theoretical and applied work, embrace a variety of methodologies and represent different views of the world. The Elgar Companion to Development Studies will therefore appeal to students, scholars, researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the filed of development as well as the interested layman.


The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization

The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization

Author: Julien Chaisse

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 951

ISBN-13: 1800882866

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This comprehensive Companion provides an extensive guide to understanding the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its impact on the global economy. Addressing the challenges facing the WTO amidst a rapidly evolving landscape, the book delves into the diverse trade policies of countries and regions, providing rare insights into their impact on the global trade governance frameworks.


Monetarism Under Thatcher

Monetarism Under Thatcher

Author: Gordon T. Pepper

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781781950982

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This authoritative book analyses the recent problems associated with the UK's monetary system and suggests a long-term solution to control bank lending in the future. It draws on extensive historical material, discussions with former senior officials and politicians, and the perceptive insights of Gordon Pepper, an advisor to Margaret Thatcher when the foundations of monetary control were being laid, to revisit and re-examine the monetarist experiment of the 1980s.


The Elgar Companion to Decentralized Finance, Digital Assets, and Blockchain Technologies

The Elgar Companion to Decentralized Finance, Digital Assets, and Blockchain Technologies

Author: Henrik Cronqvist

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-06-05

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1035307766

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This timely Companion offers keen insights into the challenges of valuing digital versus traditional assets, exploring how behavioural and social traits, states and actions can cause biased perspectives in over- or underestimating the value of digital assets. Innovative and comprehensive, the Companion first provides an overview of how decentralization can impact existing financial systems before delving into exploring decentralized lending and predicting the role of digital assets in future payments.


Institutions and Development

Institutions and Development

Author: M. M. Shirley

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1848443994

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Both economic research and the history of foreign aid suggest that the largest barriers to development arise from a society's institutions - its norms and rules. This book explains how institutions drive economic development. It provides numerous examples to illustrate the complex, interlocking, and persistent nature of real world rules and norms.


The Elgar Companion to the Asian Development Bank

The Elgar Companion to the Asian Development Bank

Author: M. G. Quibria

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-02-12

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1800882963

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Providing an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this comprehensive Companion offers a detailed examination of the ADB’s objectives, policies, development outcomes, strengths and weaknesses, areas for reform, and challenges going forward.


The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes

The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes

Author: Robert W. Dimand

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 1788118561

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The most influential and controversial economist of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes was the leading founder of modern macroeconomics, and was also an important historical figure as a critic of the Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I and an architect of the Bretton Woods international monetary system after World War II. This comprehensive Companion elucidates his contributions, his significance, his historical context and his continuing legacy.


The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals

The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals

Author: Nicola Piper

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-04-12

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1802204512

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This dynamic Companion explores the connections - and disconnections - between migration and sustainable development as articulated by the UN’s Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Providing a critical appraisal of Agenda 2030, it examines the extent to which the SDGs encompass migration and migrant-related experiences within the context of the pledge to ‘leave no-one behind’.


The Limits of Regulation

The Limits of Regulation

Author: Stavros Mavroudeas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0857938649

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'Whilst the regulation approach has gone beyond its peak of influence and has been diluted of much of its radical content, this outstanding critical appreciation of its strengths and weaknesses will prove an invaluable point of reference for all those engaged in the political economy of the national within the global economy.' – Ben Fine, University of London, UK This unique and original book offers a critical survey of the regulation approach, an influential theoretical school born in the 1970s and belonging to the neo-Marxist and radical political economy traditions. The author's persuasive argument is that regulation, in order to explain capitalist development, resorts to historicism and institutionalism and thereby adopts a 'middle-range' methodology. He contends that both its theoretical and methodological perspectives are currently unfit for this purpose. This novel critique of regulation will prove a challenging and stimulating read for academics, researchers and graduate students with an interest in heterodox economics, the history of economic thought, political economy, regional development and labour process theory.