Economics of development - Gillis, Malcolm (New York : Norton, 1992)
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.
Maps in lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-617) and index.
Keywords: Economic development; Economics; Developing countries -- Economic conditions