Issues in Contemporary Economics

Preface - The International Economic Association - Acknowledgements - IEA Programme Committee - Local Steering Committee - List of Authors and Section Leaders - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Introduction; P.Dasgupta - PART 1: AGRICULTURE - Public Choice, Markets and the Problem of Ensuring an Adequate Minimum Level of Welfare; E.F.McClennen - Environmental and Agricultural Issues: What is the Alternative to Public Choice Theory?; P.S derbaum - Public Choice and Agricultural Policy: The Case of the CAP; K.Hagedorn - Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Community; M.Hartmann, W.Henrichsmeyer, P.M.Schmitz - Public Choice and Agriculture: An American Example; G.Tullock & J.Hillman - PART 2: FOOD AND NUTRITION - Assuring a Household Food Security and Nutrition Bias in African Government Policies; P.Pinstrup-Andersen - Food Security and Policy Reform in Mali and the Sahel; J.Dion - Food Deprivation and Undernutrition in Rural Bangladesh; S.R.Osmani - Undernutrition in Sub-Sahara Africa: Is There a Sex Bias?; P.Svedberg - PART 3: TRADE POLICIES FOR DEVELOPMENT - Real Exchange Rate Policies for Economic Development: A Heterodox Interpretation; P.A.Yotopoulos - A Lost Generation? Why Latin American Development Depends on Growth: Surmounting the Reverse Transfer Problem of Debt; C.W.Reynolds - The Determinants of Manufacturing Exports from Latin America; S.Teitel - Recent Industrial Growth and Development in Kenya: Constraints and Prospects for the Future; E.Siggel - External Debt Service, Growth and Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Triad Plan; B.W.Mutharika - PART 4: CENTRAL PLANNING FOR DEVELOPMENT - The Changing Image of Modern Socialism; O.T.Bogomolov - Economic Reforms versus Central Planning and Monoparty Control; A.Bajt - Redefining the Government's Role in Contemporary Collectivist and Market Systems; B.B.Gemper - Some Important Issues in the Reform of China's Planning System; L.Yuanzheng, L.Guangan, S.Jian - Index