The paper considers various possible means, mooted as alternatives or supplements to a simple schedule of governmental contributions, of paying for global public goods and common purposes: use of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); the United Kingdom's International Finance Facility (IFF);...

Anthony Clunies-Ross argues that there are many possible ways of obtaining and safeguarding resources for social development, and the article considers some that are at risk of being overlooked but are potentially fair and efficient, with some chance of being politically acceptable. For some of...

How should governments manage their countries mineral and oil-gas resources? This book deals with the relationships between governments and mining companies; governments participation in mining enterprises; stabilization in the face of fluctuating mineral revenue; and possible forms for tax...

This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The difference in the economic trajectories of the two societies can be reduced to different...