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Author:   Machiko Nissanke ,  George Mavrotas
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.645kg
ISBN:  

9780230203341

ISBN 10:   0230203345
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   20 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword Preface and Introduction Current Contextual Setting for Development Finance PART I: COMMODITIES, TRADE AND GOVERNANCE: REFLECTIONS ON ALFRED MAIZELS' LIFE, WORK AND LEGACY Commodities, Co-operation, and World Economic Development: The Mission of Alfred Maizels, 1917-2006 Poverty, Power and Global Economic Governance  PART II: COMMODITIES AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY  Issues and Challenges for Commodity Markets in the Global Economy: An Overview Commodity Market Structures, Evolving Governance and Policy Issues Commodities still in Crisis? Asian Drivers, Commodity Prices and the Terms of Trade Uncertain prospects of commodity-dependent developing countries PART III: CASE STUDIES OF COTTON AND COPPER Crises in Cotton of Francophone Africa: Fatality or Challenge for Multi-dimension Cooperation?  Exchange Rate Management for Commodity Dependent Countries: A Zambian Case Study PART IV: FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE UNDER GLOBALIZATION A Role of Compensatory finance in the 21st century after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis The 'Bottom Billions': A Critique and Alternative View Global Rules and Markets: Constraints over Policy Autonomy in Developing Countries

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MACHIKO NISSANKE is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. She previously worked at Birkbeck College, University College London and the University of Oxford, and was also Research Fellow of Nuffield College and the Overseas Development Institute. She has published numerous books and journal articles in financial and international economics, and has served many international organizations as advisor and coordinator of research programmes.   GEORGE MAVROTAS is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network. Previously he was a fellow and project director at UNU-WIDER and on the economics faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. He has published extensively in journals and books on development economics and development finance, including Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (Oxford University Press), Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics, and Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead and Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction, all with Palgrave Macmillan.

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