Derivatives and development: a political economy of global finance, farming, and poverty

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 thatderivatives leave much to be desired as development tools. Derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting someof the dangers of neoliberal globalization for the poor. INDICE: Chapter 1.Introduction .Chapter 2.Derivatives and Development: Contemporary Applications .Chapter 3.Coffee, Derivatives and Income Security: Theory and Practice.Chapter 4.Coffee, Derivatives and Poverty: A Global Commodity Chain Approach.Chapter 5.Derivatives and the Politics of Alternatives.Chapter 6.Conclusions.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-33892-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 27/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido