Economic Growth and Development

✍ Scribed by Matthew McCartney

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 353
Edition: 2015
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This wide-ranging text introduces the causes of economic growth and stagnation across countries. It combines consideration of proximate causes as well as systemic factors, and provides the historical context and theoretical background to aid understanding of international disparities.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrative Material
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I The Proximate Sources of Growth in the Modern World Economy since 1950
1 Thinking about Growth
2 Growth in the Modern World Economy since 1950
3 Domestic and Foreign Direct Investment
4 Population and Economic Growth/Development
5 Technology and Economic Growth
6 Education and Health
Part II Patterns of Long-term Economic Growth and the Deeper Determinants of Economic Growth
7 The Great Divergence since 1750
8 Economic Growth and Economic Structure since 1750
9 Colonialism
10 Institutions
11 Geography and Economic Resources
12 Culture
13 International Trade, Openness and Integration
Conclusion: Eight Principles for Policy-Makers
Bibliography
Index

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