Contemporary issues in development finance
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TextPublication details: London Routledge 2021 Description: xiii, 443 pISBN: 9781138324329Subject(s): Economic development--Finance | Sustainable development | International financeDDC classification: 332 Summary: Contemporary Issues in Development Finance provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of theoretical and policy issues in development finance from both the domestic and the external finance perspectives and emphasizes addressing the gaps in financial markets.
The chapters cover topical issues such as microfinance, private sector financing, aid, FDI, remittances, sovereign wealth, trade finance, and the sectoral financing of agricultural and infrastructural projects. Readers will acquire both breadth and depth of knowledge in critical and contemporary issues in development finance from a philosophical and yet pragmatic development impact approach. The text ensures this by carefully integrating the relevant theoretical underpinnings, empirical assessments, and practical policy issues into its analysis. The work is designed to be fully accessible to practitioners with only a limited theoretical economic background, allowing them to deeply engage with the book as useful reference material. Readers may find more advanced information and technical details provided in clear, concise boxes throughout the text. Finally, each chapter is fully supported by a set of review questions and by cases and examples from developing countries, particularly those in Africa.
This book is a valuable resource for both development finance researchers and students taking courses in development finance, development economics, international finance, financial development policy, and economic policy management. Practitioners will find the development impact, policy, and conceptual analysis dimensions insightful analysing and designing intervention strategies.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to contemporary issues in development finance
Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Charles Komla Delali Adjasi, and Robert Lensink
2. Finance, economic growth, and development
Lordina Amoah, Charles Komla Delali Adjasi, Issouf Soumare, Kofi Achampong Osei, Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Ebenezer Bugri Anarfo, Charles Amo-Yartey, and IsaacOtchere
3. Microfinance and development
Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink
4. Private capital flows and economic growth
Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor, Alfred Yawson, and Pieter Opperman
5. Remittances and development
Hanna Fromell, Tobias Grohmann, and Robert Lensink
6. Foreign aid and economic development
Matthew Kofi Ocran, Bernardin Senadza, and EricOsei-Assibey
7. Global financial architecture: emerging issues and agenda for reforms
Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Angela Azumah Alu, David Mathuva, and Joe Nellis
8. Sovereign wealth management
Mbako Mbo and Charles Komla Delali Adjasi
9. Sovereign debt management
Amin Karimu, Vera Fiador, and Imhotep Paul Alagidede
10. Financial inclusion and economic growth
Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Haruna Issahaku, Mohammed Amidu, and Victor Murinde
11. Financing agriculture for inclusive development
Haruna Issahaku, Edward Asiedu, Paul Kwame Nkegbe, and Robert Osei
12. Financing sustainable development: new insights for the present and the future
Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, PatrickO. Assuming, Patience Aseweh Abor, and Jabir Ibrahim Mohammed
13. International trade, finance, and development
Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk
14. Infrastructure financing and economic development
Saint Kuttu, shenafi Fanta, ichael Graham, and Joshua Yindenaba Abor
15. Finance and economic development: the role of the private sector
Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor, Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Haruna Issahaku, and Charles Komla Delali Adjasi
Contemporary Issues in Development Finance provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of theoretical and policy issues in development finance from both the domestic and the external finance perspectives and emphasizes addressing the gaps in financial markets.
The chapters cover topical issues such as microfinance, private sector financing, aid, FDI, remittances, sovereign wealth, trade finance, and the sectoral financing of agricultural and infrastructural projects. Readers will acquire both breadth and depth of knowledge in critical and contemporary issues in development finance from a philosophical and yet pragmatic development impact approach. The text ensures this by carefully integrating the relevant theoretical underpinnings, empirical assessments, and practical policy issues into its analysis. The work is designed to be fully accessible to practitioners with only a limited theoretical economic background, allowing them to deeply engage with the book as useful reference material. Readers may find more advanced information and technical details provided in clear, concise boxes throughout the text. Finally, each chapter is fully supported by a set of review questions and by cases and examples from developing countries, particularly those in Africa.
This book is a valuable resource for both development finance researchers and students taking courses in development finance, development economics, international finance, financial development policy, and economic policy management. Practitioners will find the development impact, policy, and conceptual analysis dimensions insightful analysing and designing intervention strategies.
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