Islam and the Everyday World

Public Policy Dilemmas

Edited by Sohrab Behdad, Farhad Nomani

This is a new examination of how Shari’a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas,...

Published May 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

The Development Economics Reader

Edited by Giorgio Secondi

This book draws together the most authoritative articles on development economics published in the past few years, is aimed at undergraduate level and is suitable...

Published May 1st 2008 by Routledge.

Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism

By Martin C. Spechler

This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without some...

Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Cristóbal Kay, Edward Lahiff

Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant...

Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.

The World Bank and Social Transformation in International Politics

Liberalism, Governance and Sovereignty

By David Williams

In the 1990s the World Bank changed its policy to take the position that the problems of poverty and governance are inextricably linked, and improving...

Published April 18th 2008 by Routledge.

Big Business and Economic Development

Conglomerates and Economic Groups in Developing Countries and Transition Economies under Globalisation

Edited by Alex E. Fernández Jilberto, Barbara Hogenboom

Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of experts, this is the first comprehensive volume to analyze conglomerates and economic groups in developing countries and...

Published April 11th 2008 by Routledge.

Political guilt, wasted money

By Anne Le More

Why has the West disbursed vertiginous sums of money to the Palestinians after Oslo? What have been donors’ motivations and above all the political consequences...

Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge.

A historical view

By Maria Brouwer

"This provocative book applies law and finance theory to a wide range of issues bearing on corporate governance and business history. Brouwer's analysis should hold...

Published March 10th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Manuel Agosin, David Bloom, George Chapelier, Jagdish Saigal

In the past two decades many developing countries have embraced the challenge of globalization by rushing to dismantle trade barriers and to promote increasingly liberal market-oriented policies....

Published March 1st 2008 by Routledge.

By Christopher May

The first edition of The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) established itself as one of the leading books to provide a political economy...

Published February 15th 2008 by Routledge.