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Debating rural poverty in Latin America: towards a new strategy
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C. Kay
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2009
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Neither the state-driven development strategy of import-substitution industrialisation from the late 1940s to the 1970s nor the neoliberal market-driven strategy since the 1980s has been able to resol...
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How inclusive is ‘Inclusive Growth’?
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T. McKinely
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2008
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The interest of the international development community in ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ appears to be waning. This one-pager examines the pros and cons of adopting its most popular replacement, &lsqu...
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Global financial crisis and recession: what could happen to major emerging economies?
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T. McKinley;N. Khurasee
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2009
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Since late 2008, the financial crisis spawned in the U.S. has spread quickly across the globe, enveloping both developed and developing countries. Most of the major developed countries are now mired i...
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The role of developing-country reserve accumulation in the current financial crisis
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J. Painceira
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2008
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The epicentre of the current global financial crisis is the United States, where lending in the subprime mortgage market has triggered the alarming spread of financial instability. The roots of this c...
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Rural labour markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: a new view of poverty, power and policy
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C. Cramer;C. Oya;J. Sender
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2008
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Although working for wages is a central feature of poor people’s livelihoods in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little attempt has been made so far to increase the contribution of rural labour mark...
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Has policy-based lending by the IMF and World Bank been effective in the Arab world?
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J. Harrigan
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2008
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This article provides a brief assessment of the effects of policy based lending by the IMF and World Bank in four typical countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tuni...
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Greater Africa-China economic cooperation: will this widen ‘policy space’?
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C. Oya
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2008
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By the end of 2007, the Chinese Import-Export Bank had approved a total of US$ 23.9 bn in loans to Africa. Western donors have expressed significant concerns about China's growing influence Af...
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Inflation-targeting in sub-Saharan Africa: why now? Why at all?
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T. McKinley
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
2008
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As only the second central bank in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Bank of Ghana has adopted an inflation-targeting regime. This paper argues that this step is wrong and comes at a bad time as: ...
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The economics and political economy of conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
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C. Cramer
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
1999
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After briefly reviewing the spread of conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa and emphasising their diversity, this paper focuses chiefly on the literature on the costs of conflict and on the causes of confli...
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Have workers in Latin America gained from liberalisation and regional integration?
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J. Weeks
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Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS,
1999
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Looks at what has occurred in labour markets during the twin processes of economic liberalisation and regional integration.Conclusionworkers in Latin America have not shared in the b...
