Derivatives and Development - A Political Economy of Global Finance, Farming, and Poverty (Hardcover, New)

Derivatives and Development engages recent efforts to deploy derivatives as tools for economic development. Even as these complex financial instruments are indicted for their role in the global food and financial crises, they are elsewhere hailed as innovative solutions to poverty and insecurity in rural Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The critical analysis undertaken here reveals that derivatives leave much to be desired as development tools. Breger Bush argues that derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal globalization for the poor.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Sasha Breger Bush
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	244
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-33892-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International finance Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries
LSN:	0-230-33892-5
Barcode:	9780230338920

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