The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments,...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Structural transformation in developing countries -- Employment -- Productivity growth -- Urbanization -- Industrialization -- Poverty -- Role of the state and policy -- Index

Foreword -- Preface -- Child labour: definition, history and survey of existing literature and policies -- Derivation of supply functions of child labour from household behaviour -- Trade sanction and child labour -- Why do composite policies sometimes fail? -- Is reduction of poverty a...

Introduction to economic transformation for poverty reduction in Africa / Almas HESHMATI -- Part a: climate, energy and food security -- Impact of weather variations on cereal productivity and the influence of agro-ecological differences in ethiopian cereal production / Oumer BERISSO Metaksa --...

Introduction -- Fair trade and organic agriculture: a case from south India -- Fair trade, organic, and genetically modified organisms : a case from central India -- Plantation management and workers under certification : a case from Darjeeling, India -- Social movements and commercial...