Ebook: The global economic crisis and the developing world : implications and prospects for recovery and growth

Global economic crisis and the developing world : an introduction / Ashwini Deshpande and Keith Nurse -- Insights from history -- Trade liberalisation, industrialisation and development : the experience of recent decades / Mehdi Shafaeddin -- The slowing down of the engine of growth : was W.A. Lewis right about global economic crises and the impact on the periphery? / Keith Nurse -- Africa : dependency and crisis; the Great depression, and the 2008 recession / Bill Freund -- The finance and trade dimension -- Reassessing capital controls : theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence / Vanessa da Costa Val Munhoz and Gilberto Libanio -- Trade dimensions in the impact of the global financial crisis in developing countries : are the policy responses overlooking them? / Aldo Caliari -- Trade integration after the Great Recession : the case of Argentina / Leandro Serino -- The technology and innovation dimension -- Are renewables a solution? : ethanol and the environment : the missing point / Luiz Niemeyer -- Creative destruction and recovery in Latin America : an out-of-crisis roadmap centred on technology and industrial policies / Mario Cimoli, Elisa Calza, Annalisa Primi and Sebastián Rovira -- The gender and employment dimension -- Financial crises of turkey and gendered employment outcomes / Ozge Izdes -- Comparative regional gendered impact of the global economic crisis on international trade and production in the developing world / Jason Jackson -- The scenario for big developing states : the case of South Africa -- The impact of the global financial crisis on the South African economy / Seeraj Mohamed -- Inequality and unemployment in the growth and recovery process : a case study of South Africa / Fiona Tregenna -- The scenario for small developing states : the Caribbean -- Factors impacting on whether and how business responds to early warning signs of financial and economic turmoil : Jamaican firms in the global crisis / David Tennant 15. The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on remittances to the Caribbean / Jessica Jones