Growth and Development: with special reference to developing economies

✍ Scribed by A. P. Thirlwall (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 529
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The study of economic development....Pages 3-15
The development gap and the measurement of poverty....Pages 16-42
The characteristics of underdevelopment and structural change....Pages 43-81
Theories of economic growth: why growth rates differ between countries....Pages 82-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Land, labour and agriculture....Pages 127-157
Capital and technical progress....Pages 158-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Dualism, centre-periphery models and the process of cumulative causation....Pages 175-192
Population and development....Pages 193-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Resource allocation in developing countries: the market mechanism and the role of the state....Pages 219-249
Project appraisal, social cost-benefit analysis and shadow wages....Pages 250-267
Development and the environment....Pages 268-290
The choice of techniques....Pages 291-305
Input-output analysis....Pages 306-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Financing development from domestic resources....Pages 327-366
Foreign assistance, debt and development....Pages 367-416
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Trade and development....Pages 419-459
The balance of payments, international monetary assistance and development....Pages 460-487
Back Matter....Pages 489-521

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Development Studies