
The New Development Economics
Description
Much is currently being made of the World Bank's apparent retreat from the neoliberal market economics of the Washington Consensus. New concepts and priorities like social capital and governance have been taken on board alongside the continuing pressures on developing countries for deregulation, privatization, free trade and so on. But how much has really changed? In what ways has the so-called post-Washington Consensus and its "New" Development Economics really parted company with the overly simplistic nostrums of the still dominant market economics? This important and thought-provoking volume makes clear for scholars, students and policymakers alike the most recent trends in theoretical argument and policy thinking within mainstream development economics.
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Persons
Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Jomo K. S. is Director of Economic Development, Department of Social and Economic Affairs (DESA), United Nations.
Content
1. Introduction - Ben Fine
2. The New Development Economics - Ben Fine
3. Washington Consensus and Aid - Elisa Vanwaeyenberge
4.Trade Liberalisation - Sonali Deraniyagala and Ben Fine
5. Growth Theory - Ben Fine
6. IMF Financial Programming - Ben Fine
7. Developmental State - Ben Fine
8. Technology and Development - Sonali Deraniyagala
9. Privatisation - Kate Bayliss
10. Human Capital - Pauline Rose
11. Social Capital - John Harriss
12 Corruption and Governance - Mushtaq Khan
13. Peasant Agriculture - Terence J. Byres
14. Economic Geography - Hugh Goodacre
15. Economic History - Dimitris Milonakis