Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction

This booke xplores country case studies and work that details the exact transmission mechanisms through which financial development can enhance pro-poor development in order to derive best practices in this field. This is an important companion for professionals and policymakers, and also a vital reference source for students.

BASUDEB GUHA-KHASNOBIS is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER. Previous appointments include IGIDR (Mumbai), the EXIM Bank of India (Bangalore) ICRIER (New Delhi), and as a research consultant for several international organizations. He is the editor of The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda and co-editor of Informal Labour Markets and Development and Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure.

GEORGE MAVROTAS is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network. Prior to that he worked for UNU-WIDER as a Fellow and Project Director and was on the Economics faculty of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. He has published extensively in development economics and development finance, including Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries, Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics,Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development and Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead.