Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics

✍ Scribed by George Mavrotas, Anthony Shorrocks (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 830
• Series: Studies in Development Economics and Policy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950–2005....Pages 3-36
Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice....Pages 37-49
From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development....Pages 50-62
Inequality in Historical Perspective....Pages 63-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Health Improvements and Health Inequality during the Last 40 Years....Pages 77-99
Inequality and Corruption....Pages 100-122
Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security....Pages 123-134
Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence in Early Post-conflict Transitions and Its Implications for Development....Pages 135-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development? Evidence for 1975–2002....Pages 149-167
Investing in Health for Economic Development: The Case of Mexico....Pages 168-182
A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education....Pages 183-196
Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development?....Pages 197-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy....Pages 227-251
A Quest for Pro-poor Globalization....Pages 252-272
International Migration in an Era of Globalization: Has it Come Out of its Marginality?....Pages 273-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets....Pages 299-318
Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating IMF Responsibility....Pages 319-332
International Finance and the Developing World: The Next 20 Years....Pages 333-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Evidence....Pages 349-370
Decomposing Growth: Do Low-income and HIPCs Differ from High-income Countries?....Pages 371-399
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes: International Comparisons....Pages 400-415
Innovations, High-tech Trade and Industrial Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy....Pages 416-434
Manufacturing, Services and Premature Deindustrialization in Developing Countries: A Kaldorian Analysis....Pages 435-454
Front Matter....Pages 455-455
Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America?....Pages 457-475
Development in Chile 1990–2005: Lessons from a Positive Experience....Pages 476-492
Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from Successes and Failures....Pages 493-517
Development Strategy, Viability and Economic Institutions: The Case of China....Pages 518-530
Institutions, Policies and Economic Development....Pages 531-554
Patterns of Rent Extraction and Deployment in Developing Countries: Implications for Governance, Economic Policy and Performance....Pages 555-577
Credit Co-operatives in Locally Financed Economic Development: Using Energy Efficiency as a Lever....Pages 578-589
Front Matter....Pages 591-591
Development through Globalization?....Pages 593-613
Do We Need a New ‘Great Transformation’? Is One Likely?....Pages 614-639
Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs....Pages 640-663
Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy....Pages 664-685
The Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the Twenty-first Century: Critical Trends and New Challenges....Pages 686-711
Development Questions for 25 Years....Pages 712-722
Back Matter....Pages 723-803

✦ Subjects

Economic Policy; Development Economics; Political Economy; International Economics