Economic Development in the Third World

✍ Scribed by Todaro Michael P.

• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 737
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Preface to First Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS
1 Development Economics and Third World Nations: A Global Perspective
2 Common Characteristics of Developing Nations
3 Alternative Theories and the Meaning of Development
4 Historic Growth and Contemporary Development: Lessons and Controversies
II PROBLEMS AND POLICIES: DOMESTIC
5 Growth, Poverty, and Income Distribution
6 The Population Debate
7 Economics of Population and Development
8 Unemployment: Issues, Dimensions, and Analyses
9 Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and Policy
10 Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development
11 Education and Development
III: PROBLEMS AND POLICIES: INTERNATIONAL
12 Trade Theory and Development Experience
13 The Balance of Payments, International Finance, and the Third World Debt Crisis
14 The Trade Policy Debate: Export Promotion, Import Substitution, and Economic Integration
15 Direct Foreign Investment and Foreign Aid: Controversies and Opportunities
IV POSSIBILITIES AND PROSPECTS
16 Development Planning: Theory and Practice
17 Monetary and Fiscal Policy: The Role and Limitations of the State
18 Global Economic Issues in the 1990s: Energy and Resource Balances, Africa's Downward Spiral, the Debt Crisis, and the Internatio
Glossary
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index