Mavrotas, George
Advancing Development
Part I. Development Economics in Retrospect
1. The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950–2005
Erik Thorbecke
2. Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice
Louis Emmerij
3. From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development
E. Wayne Nafziger
4. Inequality in Historical Perspective
Richard Jolly
Part II. Inequality and Conflict
5. Health Improvements and Health Inequality during the Last 40 Years
Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Leonardo Menchini
6. Inequality and Corruption
Eric M. Uslaner
7. Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security
S. Mansoob Murshed
8. Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence in Early Post-conflict Transitions and Its Implications for Development
Marcia Byrom Hartwell
Part III. Human Development and Wellbeing
9. International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development? Evidence for 1975–2002
Farhad Noorbakhsh
10. Investing in Health for Economic Development: The Case of Mexico
Nora Lustig
11. A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education
David Fielding, Mark McGillivray, Sebastian Torres
12. Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development?
Stephen Knowles
Part IV. Globalization
13. Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy
Nancy Birdsall
14. A Quest for Pro-poor Globalization
Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke
15. International Migration in an Era of Globalization: Has it Come Out of its Marginality?
Arjan Haan
Part V. Development Finance
16. International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
Valpy FitzGerald
17. Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating IMF Responsibility
Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani
18. International Finance and the Developing World: The Next 20 Years
Tony Addison
Part VI. Growth and Poverty
19. Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Evidence
Mark Blackden, Sudharshan Canagarajah, Stephan Klasen, David Lawson
20. Decomposing Growth: Do Low-income and HIPCs Differ from High-income Countries?
Pertti Haaparanta, Heli Virta
21. Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes: International Comparisons
Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son
22. Innovations, High-tech Trade and Industrial Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Lakhwinder Singh
23. Manufacturing, Services and Premature Deindustrialization in Developing Countries: A Kaldorian Analysis
Sukti Dasgupta, Ajit Singh
Part VII. Development Strategies
24. Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America?
Guillermo Rozenwurcel
25. Development in Chile 1990–2005: Lessons from a Positive Experience
Álvaro García Hurtado
26. Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from Successes and Failures
Annelies Zoomers
27. Development Strategy, Viability and Economic Institutions: The Case of China
Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu, Shiyuan Pan, Pengfei Zhang
28. Institutions, Policies and Economic Development
Grzegorz W. Kolodko
29. Patterns of Rent Extraction and Deployment in Developing Countries: Implications for Governance, Economic Policy and Performance
Richard M. Auty
30. Credit Co-operatives in Locally Financed Economic Development: Using Energy Efficiency as a Lever
Robert J. McIntyre
Part VIII. Development Economics in Prospect
31. Development through Globalization?
Deepak Nayyar
32. Do We Need a New ‘Great Transformation’? Is One Likely?
Frances Stewart
33. Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs
François Bourguignon, Mark Sundberg
34. Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy
C. Leigh Anderson, Kostas Stamoulis
35. The Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the Twenty-first Century: Critical Trends and New Challenges
Mihály Simai
36. Development Questions for 25 Years
Lance Taylor
Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Development Economics, Political Economy, International Economics
- Editor
- Mavrotas, George
- Shorrocks, Anthony
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Studies in Development Economics and Policy
- Page amount
- 841 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230801462
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-01904-1