Growth and Development
With Special Reference to Developing Economies
4th Edition
Published on 10. March 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-333-46662-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the revised edition of this textbook the author has included new material on foreign assistance and debt and has updated statistics and the institutional material. The book aims to provide students with an understanding of the theory and practice of economic development.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
830 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-46662-9 (9780333466629)
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Book
03/1989
4th Edition
Macmillan ELBS
€90.94
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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.