
Growth and Development: with Special Reference to Developing Economies
A.P. Thirlwall(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 7. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
468 pages
978-0-333-60087-0 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook is designed specifically for students of economics and the social sciences who are taking a first course in economic development and have a background knowledge of macro-and micro-economics. It draws on several branches of economics in order to elucidate and promote understanding of the development difficulties facing economies of the world's poor countries. This fifth edition, like its predecessor, combines descrption and analysis with an emphasis on the elaboration of simple and useful theoretical economic models for an understanding of the issues that comprise the subject-matter of development economics. All statistics have been updated and many of the chapters have been rewritten to accommodate new institutional changes and innovations in thinking about development strategy. A completely new chapter on the incorporation of environmental issues into social cost-benefit analysis, and the concept of sustainable development has been included.
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Series
Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 186 mm
Weight
834 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-60087-0 (9780333600870)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Content
Part 1 Introduction: development and underdevelopment; the production-function approach to the study of the causes of growth. Part 2 Factors in the development process: land, labour and agriculture; capital and technical progress. Part 3 Obstacles to development: dualism, centre-periphery models and the process of cumulative causation; population and development. Part 4 Planning, the allocation of resources and the choice of techniques: planning and resource allocation in developing countries; social cost-benefit analysis and the shadow wage; the choice of techniques; input-output analysis; the programming approach to development. Part 5 Financing economic development: financing development from domestic resources. Part 6 International trade, the balance of payments and development: trade and development; the balance of payments, international monetary assistance and development.