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Economics of development / Malcolm Gillis [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Norton, �1992.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvi, 635 p : ill, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393961567
  • 9780393961560
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC57 .G37
Online resources:
Contents:
International Development Resources on the Internet -- Part 1. Theory and Patterns -- 1.. Introduction -- Terminology: The Developing World -- Development Continuum -- Glance at History -- Concept of Substitutes -- Approaches to Development -- Organization -- 2.. Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Patterns -- Estimating Gross National Product -- Income Levels and Economic Growth around the World: A Brief Overview -- Progression of Growth Theory -- Harrod-Domar Growth Model -- Economic Growth in Thailand -- Solow (Neoclassical) Growth Model -- Empirical Evidence on Economic Growth -- Explaining Differences in Growth Rates -- Beyond Solow: New Approaches to Growth -- Appendix. Deriving the Sources of Growth Equation -- 3.. Structural Change -- Two-Sector Models -- Labor Surplus in China -- Labor Surplus in Africa -- Industrial Patterns of Growth -- Quantitative Interindustry Models -- 4.. Development and Human Welfare -- Concepts and Measures -- Patterns of Inequality and Poverty -- South Korea -- Brazil -- Sri Lanka -- Theories of Inequality and Poverty -- India -- Strategies for Growth with Equity -- Part 2. Guilding Development -- 5.. Guiding Development: Markets Versus Controls -- Managing Development -- March Toward Markets -- Declining Effectiveness of Industrial Policy: Korea from the 1960s to the 1990s -- Implementing Market Reforms -- China Joins the WTO to Speed the Transition to the Market, 1999-2000 -- Stabilization That Worked: Bolivia 1985-86 -- Transition to a Market System -- Stabilization and Deregulation, Indonesia 1986-90 -- 6.. Sustainable Development -- Market Failures -- Soil Erosion in Java, Indonesia -- Policy Solutions -- Communal Forest Management in India -- Reducing Water Pollution from Palm Oil Mills in Malaysia -- Policy Failures -- ^ Subsidized Deforestation of the Amazon -- Kerosene Subsidy in Indonesia
Valuing a Recreational Facility in Bangkok, Thailand -- Measuring Sustainability -- Sustainable Developments in Malaysia -- Global Sustainability -- Environmental Degradation and Income Levels: Three patterns -- Part 3. Human Resources -- 7.. Population -- Demographic Measures -- Brief History of Human Population -- Present Demographic Situation -- Demographic Future -- Causes of Population Growth -- Analyzing the Effects of Rapid Population Growth -- Population Policy -- Population and Family Planning in Kenya -- Population and Family Planning in China -- Population and Family Planning in Indonesia -- 8.. Labor's Role -- Analyzing Employment Issues -- Primary Education and Child Labor in India -- Urban Informal Sector in Indonesia -- Labor Reallocation -- Employment Policy -- Employment Creation Strategies -- 9.. Education -- Trends and Patterns -- Education in Indonesia -- ^ Education's Role in Development -- Educational Policy in Kenya and Tanzania and Its Results -- 10.. Health and Nutrition -- Health in the Developing Countries -- HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Health in Sri Lanka -- Effects of Health on Development -- Environmental Health -- Malnutrition -- Medical Sevices -- Supplying Medicines to Poor Countries -- Health Services and the Market -- Part 4. Capital Resources -- 11.. Capital and Saving -- Saving and Investment: The Basic Data -- Investment Requirements for Growth -- Sources of Saving -- Determinants of Private Saving -- Foreign Saving -- Foreign Aid -- 12.. Fiscal Policy -- Government Budget: General Considerations -- Government Expenditures -- Project Appraisal and the Capital Account -- Tax Policy and Public Saving -- Tax Rates and Smuggling: Columbia -- Tax Administration in India and Bolivia in the 1980s -- ^ Lessons From Comprehensive Tax Reform: Colombia -- Taxes and Private Investment -- Income Distribution
Irrigation and Equity -- Economic Efficiency and the Budget -- 13.. Financial Policy -- Functions of a Financial System -- Inflation and Savings Mobilization -- Hyperinflation in Peru: 1988-90 -- Interest Rates and Savings Decisions -- Financial Development -- Small-Scale Savings and Credit Institutions: Bangladesh and Indonesia -- Monetary Policy and Price Stability -- 14.. Private Foreign Capital Flows, Debt, and Financial Crises -- Foreign Investment and the Multinationals -- Foreign Debt -- 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis -- Debt Relief in Uganda -- Emerging Market Financial Crises -- Self-Fulfilling Creditor Panics -- Part 5. Production and Trade -- 15.. Agriculture -- Agriculture's Role in Economic Development -- Land Tenure and Reform -- Technology of Agricultural Production -- Mobilization of Agricultural Inputs -- Labor Mobilization in Chinese Communes -- Agricultural Price Policy -- 16.. Primary Exports -- Export Characteristics of Developing Countries -- Comparative Advantage -- Primary Exports as an Engine of Growth -- Recent Empirical Evidence on Primary-Export-Led Growth -- Barriers to Primary-Export-Led Growth -- Primary-Export-Led Growth in Malaysia -- Ghana: A Case of Arrested Development -- Nigeria: A Bad Case of Dutch Disease -- Indonesia: Finding a Cure -- 17.. Industry -- Industry as a Leading Sector -- Investment Choices in Industry -- Township and Village Enterprises in China -- 18.. Trade and Development -- Import Substitution -- Import Substitution in Kenya -- Outward-Looking Trade Strategy -- World Trading Arrangements -- Trade Reform in Mexico, 1985-89 -- 19.. Managing an Open Economy -- Equilibrium in a Small, Open Economy -- Tales of Stabilization -- Pioneering Stabilization: Chile, 1973-84 -- Recovering from Mismanagement: Ghana, 1983-91 -- ^ Accumulating Reserves: Taiwan, 1980-87.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-617) and index.

International Development Resources on the Internet -- Part 1. Theory and Patterns -- 1.. Introduction -- Terminology: The Developing World -- Development Continuum -- Glance at History -- Concept of Substitutes -- Approaches to Development -- Organization -- 2.. Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Patterns -- Estimating Gross National Product -- Income Levels and Economic Growth around the World: A Brief Overview -- Progression of Growth Theory -- Harrod-Domar Growth Model -- Economic Growth in Thailand -- Solow (Neoclassical) Growth Model -- Empirical Evidence on Economic Growth -- Explaining Differences in Growth Rates -- Beyond Solow: New Approaches to Growth -- Appendix. Deriving the Sources of Growth Equation -- 3.. Structural Change -- Two-Sector Models -- Labor Surplus in China -- Labor Surplus in Africa -- Industrial Patterns of Growth -- Quantitative Interindustry Models -- 4.. Development and Human Welfare -- Concepts and Measures -- Patterns of Inequality and Poverty -- South Korea -- Brazil -- Sri Lanka -- Theories of Inequality and Poverty -- India -- Strategies for Growth with Equity -- Part 2. Guilding Development -- 5.. Guiding Development: Markets Versus Controls -- Managing Development -- March Toward Markets -- Declining Effectiveness of Industrial Policy: Korea from the 1960s to the 1990s -- Implementing Market Reforms -- China Joins the WTO to Speed the Transition to the Market, 1999-2000 -- Stabilization That Worked: Bolivia 1985-86 -- Transition to a Market System -- Stabilization and Deregulation, Indonesia 1986-90 -- 6.. Sustainable Development -- Market Failures -- Soil Erosion in Java, Indonesia -- Policy Solutions -- Communal Forest Management in India -- Reducing Water Pollution from Palm Oil Mills in Malaysia -- Policy Failures -- ^ Subsidized Deforestation of the Amazon -- Kerosene Subsidy in Indonesia

Valuing a Recreational Facility in Bangkok, Thailand -- Measuring Sustainability -- Sustainable Developments in Malaysia -- Global Sustainability -- Environmental Degradation and Income Levels: Three patterns -- Part 3. Human Resources -- 7.. Population -- Demographic Measures -- Brief History of Human Population -- Present Demographic Situation -- Demographic Future -- Causes of Population Growth -- Analyzing the Effects of Rapid Population Growth -- Population Policy -- Population and Family Planning in Kenya -- Population and Family Planning in China -- Population and Family Planning in Indonesia -- 8.. Labor's Role -- Analyzing Employment Issues -- Primary Education and Child Labor in India -- Urban Informal Sector in Indonesia -- Labor Reallocation -- Employment Policy -- Employment Creation Strategies -- 9.. Education -- Trends and Patterns -- Education in Indonesia -- ^ Education's Role in Development -- Educational Policy in Kenya and Tanzania and Its Results -- 10.. Health and Nutrition -- Health in the Developing Countries -- HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Health in Sri Lanka -- Effects of Health on Development -- Environmental Health -- Malnutrition -- Medical Sevices -- Supplying Medicines to Poor Countries -- Health Services and the Market -- Part 4. Capital Resources -- 11.. Capital and Saving -- Saving and Investment: The Basic Data -- Investment Requirements for Growth -- Sources of Saving -- Determinants of Private Saving -- Foreign Saving -- Foreign Aid -- 12.. Fiscal Policy -- Government Budget: General Considerations -- Government Expenditures -- Project Appraisal and the Capital Account -- Tax Policy and Public Saving -- Tax Rates and Smuggling: Columbia -- Tax Administration in India and Bolivia in the 1980s -- ^ Lessons From Comprehensive Tax Reform: Colombia -- Taxes and Private Investment -- Income Distribution

Irrigation and Equity -- Economic Efficiency and the Budget -- 13.. Financial Policy -- Functions of a Financial System -- Inflation and Savings Mobilization -- Hyperinflation in Peru: 1988-90 -- Interest Rates and Savings Decisions -- Financial Development -- Small-Scale Savings and Credit Institutions: Bangladesh and Indonesia -- Monetary Policy and Price Stability -- 14.. Private Foreign Capital Flows, Debt, and Financial Crises -- Foreign Investment and the Multinationals -- Foreign Debt -- 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis -- Debt Relief in Uganda -- Emerging Market Financial Crises -- Self-Fulfilling Creditor Panics -- Part 5. Production and Trade -- 15.. Agriculture -- Agriculture's Role in Economic Development -- Land Tenure and Reform -- Technology of Agricultural Production -- Mobilization of Agricultural Inputs -- Labor Mobilization in Chinese Communes -- Agricultural Price Policy -- 16.. Primary Exports -- Export Characteristics of Developing Countries -- Comparative Advantage -- Primary Exports as an Engine of Growth -- Recent Empirical Evidence on Primary-Export-Led Growth -- Barriers to Primary-Export-Led Growth -- Primary-Export-Led Growth in Malaysia -- Ghana: A Case of Arrested Development -- Nigeria: A Bad Case of Dutch Disease -- Indonesia: Finding a Cure -- 17.. Industry -- Industry as a Leading Sector -- Investment Choices in Industry -- Township and Village Enterprises in China -- 18.. Trade and Development -- Import Substitution -- Import Substitution in Kenya -- Outward-Looking Trade Strategy -- World Trading Arrangements -- Trade Reform in Mexico, 1985-89 -- 19.. Managing an Open Economy -- Equilibrium in a Small, Open Economy -- Tales of Stabilization -- Pioneering Stabilization: Chile, 1973-84 -- Recovering from Mismanagement: Ghana, 1983-91 -- ^ Accumulating Reserves: Taiwan, 1980-87.

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