Format:
ca. 256 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780230338920
Content:
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.
Content:
An analysis of an increasingly popular set of policy proposals coming from international development organizations and non-profits which suggest that developing country farmers should be hedging their considerable exposure to price risk on derivatives markets thereby securing their incomes from the vagaries of global commodity markets
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Derivatives and Development: Contemporary Applications; 3 Coffee, Derivatives, and Income Security: Theory and Practice; 4 Coffee, Derivatives, and Poverty: A Global Commodity Chain Approach; 5 Derivatives and the Politics of Alternatives 151; 6 Conclusions; Notes; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137062659
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Derivatives and Development : A Political Economy of Global Finance, Farming, and Poverty
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/9781137062659
URN:
10.1057/9781137062659
URL:
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