Understanding Small-Island Developing States (eBook, PDF)

Fragility and External Shocks
Redaktion: Santos-Paulino, Amelia; Naudé, Wim; McGillivray, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book analyses the development prospects of small island developing states (SIDS) in various regions of the world, exploring the sources and consequences of economic, social and political vulnerability.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317965633
• Artikelnr.: 58414753

Autorenporträt

Amelia U. Santos-Paulino is a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. She specializes in trade and development, with particular reference to developing and least developed countries, and her work has been published in several academic publications including the Economic Journal, and World Development. She has been a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for the World Bank, and for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Mark McGillivray is the Chief Economist of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and UNU-WIDER former Deputy Director. He is also an honorary Professor of Development Economics at the University of Glasgow, an External Fellow of the Centre for Economic Development and International Trade at the University of Nottingham, and an Inaugural Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. Wim Naudé is Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER. He has published widely on regional and local development, entrepreneurship and small business, and the development challenges facing African countries.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Vulnerability, Trade, Financial Flows and State Failure in Small Island
Developing States Mark McGillivray, Wim Naudé and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
2. Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States
and the Least Developed Countries Patrick Guillaumont 3. Terms of Trade
Shocks and the Current Account in Small Island Developing States Amelia U.
Santos-Paulino 4. The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to
Small States: An Agnostic Time Series Analysis Henrik Hansen and Derek
Headey 5. Aid and Growth in Small Island Developing States Simon Feeny and
Mark McGillivray 6. Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific and in Other
Small Island States David Fielding 7. Remittances in Small Island
Developing States Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo and Carlos
Vargas-Silva 8. Paradise Lost: The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific
Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler