
Economics of Development
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An ideal textbook for undergraduate students of economics and other social sciences, it is also suitable for upper undergraduate and master's level modules on development economics as an option on a non-economics degree.
New to this Edition:
- A brand new chapter on human capital:education, nutrition, health, and therole of women in development
- New material on the Sustainable Development Goals, the measurementof poverty, and the multidimensional poverty index
- Discussion of randomized control trials
- The role of structural change in economic development
- New IMF lending facilities
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Penélope Pacheco-López teaches economics at the University of Kent, UK, and has been a Consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Trade Centre, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). She is the author with A.P.Thirlwall of Trade Liberalization and the Poverty of Nations.
Content
1. The Study of Economic Development
2. The Development Gap and the Measurement of Poverty
3. The Characteristics of Underdevelopment and Structural Change
4. Theories of Economic Growth: Old and New
PARTII FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
5. The Role of Agriculture and Surplus Labour for Industrialisation
6. Capital Accumulation, Technical Progress and Techniques of Production
7. Human Capital: Education, The Role of Women, Nutrition and Health
8. The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
9. The Role of the State in Economic Development
PARTIII THE PERPETUATION OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT
10. Dualism, Centre-Periphery Models and the Process of Cumulative Causation
11. Population and Development
12. Development and the Environment
PART IV FINANCING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
13. Financing Development from Domestic Resources
14. Foreign Assistance, Aid, Debt and Development
PART V INTERNATIONAL TRADE, THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT
15. Trade Theory, Policy and Economic Development
16. The Balance of Payments, International Monetary Assistance and Development.
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