TY - BOOK AU - Gillis,Malcolm TI - Economics of development SN - 0393961567 AV - HC57 .G37 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Norton KW - Economic development KW - Economics KW - Developing countries KW - Economic conditions N1 - Maps in lining papers; 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 UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780393961560.pdf ER -