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  • Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

    Macroeconomic Frameworks for Analysing the Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Finn Tarp ...
    This book reveals and examines the relevance of the macroeconomic theory and models behind recommendations for stabilization and structual adjustment. Alternaive analytical approaches are discusses. This is done on the basis of an up-to-date review of developments in sub-saharan Africa during the 1980's and within a common analytical framework. ... Read more

    Was $126.41 CAD Now $112.67 CAD

  • Mozambique at a Fork in the Road

    The Institutional Diagnostic Project

    Edited by António S. Cruz, Ines A. Ferreira, Johnny Flentø, Finn Tarp ...
    Few countries have experienced as many political and economic changes as Mozambique. A vast and diverse country, it faced a particularly difficult start after a long period of colonial dominance followed by a deadly war that formally ended only in 1992. However, despite impressive growth after multi-party elections, Mozambique's pattern of growth is fragmented, not sustainable and non-inclusive. ... Read more

    $130.39 CAD

  • South African Economy

    Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term

    by Peter Brixen, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    What are the macroeconomic prospects for South Africa until the new millennium? Two methods of macroeconomic modelling, associated with the World Bank and IMF, are used here to generate three scenarios, based on moderately optimistic projections. The methodology used can be applied to other developing countries. ... Read more

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  • Africa's Lions

    Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies

    Edited by Haroon Bhorat, Finn Tarp ...
    Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future.Africa’s Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa.Despite a growing body of research on African economies, very ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Foreign Aid and Development

    Lessons Learnt and Directions For The Future

    Edited by Finn Tarp ...
    Peter Hjertholm, Editorial Assistant Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. In this important new book, leading economists and political scientists, including experienced aid practitioners, re-examine foreign aid. The evolution of development doctrine over the past fifty years is critically investigated, and conven ... Read more

    $166.26 CAD

  • Industries without Smokestacks

    Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered

    Edited by Richard Newfarmer, John Page, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers of unskilled workers, that can raise productivity through innovation, and that can power growth through exports. Such structural ... Read more

    $98.39 CAD

  • Mining for Change

    Natural Resources and Industry in Africa

    Edited by John Page, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. Countries dependent on oil, gas, and mining have tended to have weaker long-run growth, higher rates of poverty, and greater income inequality than less resource-abundant economies. For these resource producing economies relative prices ... Read more

    $101.19 CAD

  • Inequality in the Developing World

    Edited by Murray Leibbrandt, Finn Tarp, Carlos Gradín ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human ... Read more

    $132.49 CAD

  • Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

    Edited by John Rand, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam provides a comprehensive analytic contribution to a crucial topic within development economics. Based on fifteen years of continued ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries

    Edited by Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Taxation in a Low-Income Economy

    The case of Mozambique

    Edited by Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This volume contains a stimulating collection of analytical studies focusing on taxation in Mozambique. It tells a compelling story about tax systems in a low income economy increasingly integrated into the world trading system, but very much dependent on foreign trade taxes and international development assistance.Key issues covered include:A better understanding of the historical background of ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • The Practice of Industrial Policy

    Government—Business Coordination in Africa and East Asia

    Edited by John Page, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Much of the information relevant to policy formulation for industrial development is held by the private sector, not by public officials. There is therefore fairly broad agreement in ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD