Development Policy: An Introduction to Objectives and Results

✍ Scribed by Joachim Betz

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Developing countries have made rapid but highly varied progress since the 1990s. So much so that the boundaries to the traditional industrialized countries have become partially blurred. On the other hand, there are a number of mostly fragile states that have not succeeded in doing so, or have only rudimentarily succeeded. Talk of one "Third World" and common development problems thus explains little. Instead, development has become a requirement for all states, which this textbook breaks down and assesses according to key development goals.

This book is a translation of the original German 1^st edition Entwicklungspolitik by Joachim Betz, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1: Introduction
1.1 Preliminary Remarks
1.2 Developing Countries and their Subgroups
1.3 What Does Development Mean?
1.4 The Sustainable Development Goals
1.5 Determination of Development Progress
Literature
2: Development and Growth Theories
2.1 What Promotes Development?
2.2 Foreign Trade, Direct Investment, Capital Movements and the Role of the State in Development
Literature
3: The Aftermath of Colonial Rule
3.1 A Heated Debate
3.2 What Can Be Proven?
Literature
4: The Developing Countries Today
4.1 Shift in Global Economic Focus?
4.2 Economic Dynamics by Sector
4.3 Is the Euphoria about the Development Successes Achieved So Far Exaggerated?
Literature
5: Poverty
5.1 Absolute Poverty Worldwide
5.2 Development of Poverty Indicators
5.3 Obstacles to Accelerating Poverty Reduction
5.4 How Can Poverty Reduction Be Achieved?
Literature
6: Inequality of Income and Wealth
6.1 Inequality and Development
6.2 Measuring Inequality
6.3 The Development of Inequality Worldwide and within Countries
6.4 Measures to Improve Distribution
Literature
7: Education
7.1 The Return on Education
7.2 Education Expenditure and its Distribution
7.3 The Quality of Education
7.4 Causes of Low Quality Education and Ways of Remedying It
Literature
8: Health
8.1 Health and Development
8.2 Disease Profile in Developing Countries
8.3 Deficits in the Health Care Systems of Developing Countries
8.4 Insurance against the Risk of Illness
8.5 Health and Nutrition
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9: Social Security
9.1 What Does Social Security Mean?
9.2 Typology of Social Security
9.3 Causes of Socio-Political Activity
9.4 The Empiricism of Social Policy Performance in the Global South
9.5 Special Case of Social Security
9.6 An Unconditional Basic Income in Developing Countries?
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10: Employment
10.1 Employment as a Development Goal
10.2 The Employment Situation in Developing Countries
10.3 Why Is Productive Employment Rising So Slowly in Many Developing Countries?
10.4 Employment Protection and Policy
Literature
11: Population
11.1 Different Positions on the Development Effects of Population Growth
11.2 Causes of the Growing Population Once and Now
11.3 Social Causes of Rising/Falling Birth Rates
11.4 Population Growth Globally and Regionally
11.5 What to Do?
Literature
12: Women and Development
12.1 The Developmental Significance of Gender Equality
12.2 Development and Equality
12.3 Where Does Discrimination Mainly Take Place?
12.4 What Can Change?
Literature
13: Democracy and Development
13.1 Does Development Need Democracy?
13.2 Triumph of Democracy in the Global South?
13.3 Development and Democratization
13.4 Higher Performance of Democratic Systems?
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14: Institutions, Governance and Development
14.1 The Steep Career of Institutional Approaches
14.2 What is Meant by Institutions/Good Governance?
14.3 The Relationship between Institutional Quality and Development
14.4 On the Empiricism of Institutional Quality
14.5 Underlying Causes of Poor Institutional Quality
14.6 The Knowledge Gain of the Institutional Approach
Literature
15: Corruption
15.1 Corruption as a Brake on Development
15.2 Measurement and Consequences of Corruption
15.3 Causes of Corruption and Approaches to Combating it
Literature
16: Wars and Development
16.1 The Global War Effort
16.2 Causes of War
16.3 Conflict Prevention and Containment
Literature
17: Defective Statehood
17.1 The Problem of Fragile/Defective Statehood
17.2 What Characterizes Fragile States?
Literature
18: Migration
18.1 Migration and Flight
18.2 Extent of Flight and Migration Globally
18.3 Causes of Flight and Migration
18.4 Consequences of Migration for Countries of Origin
18.5 Future of Migration
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19: Climate and Development
19.1 The Global Climate Problem
19.2 International Climate Policy
19.3 Difficulties of Climate-Friendly Collective Action
19.4 Justifications for Climate Policy Passivity
19.5 An Energy Transition in the Global South?
19.6 Causes of the Partial Change of Course
Literature
20: Development Cooperation
20.1 The Concept of Development Cooperation
20.2 Forms, Conditions and Vehicles of Development Cooperation
20.3 Volume and Distribution of DC
20.4 Motives and Objectives of DC
20.5 Problems and Deficits of Development Cooperation
20.5.1 Lack of Predictability of Grants
20.5.2 Absorption Problems of DC
20.5.3 Fragmentation on the Donor Side
20.5.4 The Effectiveness of DC
20.6 International Reform Efforts
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