
Growth and Development
With Special Reference to Developing Economies
A.P. Thirlwall(Author)
Macmillan ELBS (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 23. March 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 435 pages
978-0-333-49311-3 (ISBN)
Description
This revised edition includes 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
Fourth Edition 1989
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
ELBS (Educational Low-Priced Book Scheme)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XVI, 435 p.
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-49311-3 (9780333493113)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-19837-5
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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.