Trade, Planning and Rural Development
Essays in Honour of Nurul Islam
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 236 pages
978-1-349-11417-7 (ISBN)
Description
A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner. The essays fall under three subject headings - international trade and aid, planning and rural development.
More details
Edition
1st ed. 1990
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
VIII, 236 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-11417-7 (9781349114177)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-11415-3
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Azizur Rahman Khan | Rehman Sobhan
Trade, Planning and Rural Development
Book
10/1990
Palgrave Macmillan
€55.71
Article exhausted; check different version
Content
Part 1 Trade and aid: parabolic welfare functions and development assistance, Jan Tinbergen; cost of directly unproductive profit-seeking and rent-seeking activities - some conceptual issues, Jagdish N.Bhagwati; on some unresolved issues in optimum tariff theory, Wahidul Haque; comparative advantage and free trade, Paul Streeten; the governance gap, Just Faaland and Jack Parkinson. Part 3 Planning and development: participatory development - some perspectives from grassroots experiences, Dharam Ghai; the changing role of economic planning in Japan, Saburo Okita; project evaluation as an aid to planning - how successful has the innovation been?, Azizur Rahman Khan. Part 4 Rural Development: a view of rural development - 1980's vintage, or why some of the emperor's clothes and his rice should be made at home, Gustav Ranis; poverty and development - propects and priorities for the 1990s, John W.Mellor; some reflections on Bangladesh development - looking backward to the future, Mark W.Leiserson; foodgrain pricing policy in Bangladesh - procurement, sales, imports and public stocks, Abu A. Abdullah; returns from education in rural Bangladesh, Mahabub Hossain. Part 5 In lieu of a conclusion - a personal reminisence: economics comes of age in a developing country - the case of Bangladesh, Austin Robinson.