Economics of development
Başlık:
Economics of development
Yazar:
Gillis, Malcolm.
ISBN:
9780393961560
9780393962437
Edition:
3rd ed.
Yayım Bilgisi:
New York : Norton, ©1992.
Fiziksel Tanım:
xvi, 635 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
General Note:
Maps in lining papers.
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Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780393961560.pdfMevcut:*
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Edited by researchers and field practitioners in economics and politics (Harvard, Rice), this is a new edition of a text for use in an undergraduate course in development economics, or as a reference for specialized courses that include development among their topics. The information is organized into five main topics: theory and patterns, guiding development, human resources, capital resources, and production and trade. The new edition includes a new chapter examining neo classic growth theory of the 1950s to more recent approaches to growth. Also new is an emphasis on currency crises and other contemporary financial issues, and a completely rewritten chapter on foreign capital flows. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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Edited by researchers and field practitioners in economics and politics (Harvard, Rice), this is a new edition of a text for use in an undergraduate course in development economics, or as a reference for specialized courses that include development among their topics. The information is organized into five main topics: theory and patterns, guiding development, human resources, capital resources, and production and trade. The new edition includes a new chapter examining neo classic growth theory of the 1950s to more recent approaches to growth. Also new is an emphasis on currency crises and other contemporary financial issues, and a completely rewritten chapter on foreign capital flows. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xv |
| International Development Resources on the Internet | p. xx |
| Part 1 Theory and Patterns | |
| 1. Introduction | p. 3 |
| Terminology: The Developing World | p. 6 |
| A Development Continuum | p. 10 |
| A Glance at History | p. 15 |
| The Concept of Substitutes | p. 18 |
| Approaches to Development | p. 24 |
| Organization | p. 26 |
| 2. Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Patterns | p. 27 |
| Estimating Gross National Product | p. 28 |
| Income Levels and Economic Growth around the World: A Brief Overview | p. 35 |
| The Progression of Growth Theory | p. 39 |
| The Harrod-Domar Growth Model | p. 43 |
| Economic Growth in Thailand | p. 50 |
| The Solow (Neoclassical) Growth Model | p. 52 |
| Empirical Evidence on Economic Growth | p. 64 |
| Explaining Differences in Growth Rates | p. 72 |
| Beyond Solow: New Approaches to Growth | p. 78 |
| Appendix Deriving the Sources of Growth Equation | p. 80 |
| 3. Structural Change | p. 83 |
| Two-Sector Models | p. 88 |
| Labor Surplus in China | p. 95 |
| Labor Surplus in Africa | p. 98 |
| Industrial Patterns of Growth | p. 99 |
| Quantitative Interindustry Models | p. 104 |
| 4. Development and Human Welfare | p. 115 |
| Concepts and Measures | p. 118 |
| Patterns of Inequality and Poverty | p. 129 |
| South Korea | p. 134 |
| Brazil | p. 135 |
| Sri Lanka | p. 136 |
| Theories of Inequality and Poverty | p. 136 |
| India | p. 137 |
| Strategies for Growth with Equity | |
| Part 2 Guilding Development | |
| 5. Guiding Development: Markets Versus Controls | p. 151 |
| Managing Development | p. 151 |
| The March Toward Markets | p. 159 |
| The Declining Effectiveness of Industrial Policy: Korea from the 1960s to the 1990s | p. 164 |
| Implementing Market Reforms | p. 169 |
| China Joins the WTO to Speed the Transition to the Market, 1999-2000 | p. 171 |
| Stabilization That Worked: Bolivia 1985-86 | p. 178 |
| The Transition to a Market System | p. 187 |
| Stabilization and Deregulation, Indonesia 1986-90 | p. 192 |
| 6. Sustainable Development | p. 195 |
| Market Failures | p. 197 |
| Soil Erosion in Java, Indonesia | p. 200 |
| Policy Solutions | p. 207 |
| Communal Forest Management in India | p. 209 |
| Reducing Water Pollution from Palm Oil Mills in Malaysia | p. 216 |
| Policy Failures | p. 220 |
| Subsidized Deforestation of the Amazon | p. 221 |
| Kerosene Subsidy in Indonesia | p. 223 |
| Valuing a Recreational Facility in Bangkok, Thailand | p. 225 |
| Measuring Sustainability | p. 225 |
| Sustainable Developments in Malaysia | p. 230 |
| Global Sustainability | p. 232 |
| Environmental Degradation and Income Levels: Three patterns | p. 236 |
| Part 3 Human Resources | |
| 7. Population | p. 245 |
| Demographic Measures | p. 246 |
| A Brief History of Human Population | p. 248 |
| The Present Demographic Situation | p. 252 |
| The Demographic Future | p. 258 |
| The Causes of Population Growth | p. 259 |
| Analyzing the Effects of Rapid Population Growth | p. 265 |
| Population Policy | p. 271 |
| Population and Family Planning in Kenya | p. 272 |
| Population and Family Planning in China | p. 274 |
| Population and Family Planning in Indonesia | p. 276 |
| 8. Labor's Role | p. 281 |
| Analyzing Employment Issues | p. 282 |
| Primary Education and Child Labor in India | p. 286 |
| The Urban Informal Sector in Indonesia | p. 290 |
| Labor Reallocation | p. 294 |
| Employment Policy | p. 302 |
| Employment Creation Strategies | p. 318 |
| 9. Education | p. 319 |
| Trends and Patterns | p. 320 |
| Education in Indonesia | p. 322 |
| Education's Role in Development | p. 329 |
| Educational Policy in Kenya and Tanzania and Its Results | p. 340 |
| 10. Health and Nutrition | p. 345 |
| Health in the Developing Countries | p. 346 |
| HIV/AIDS in Africa | p. 350 |
| Health in Sri Lanka | p. 354 |
| Effects of Health on Development | p. 354 |
| Environmental Health | p. 358 |
| Malnutrition | p. 359 |
| Medical Sevices | p. 366 |
| Supplying Medicines to Poor Countries | p. 370 |
| Health Services and the Market | p. 371 |
| Part 4 Capital Resources | |
| 11. Capital and Saving | p. 377 |
| Saving and Investment: The Basic Data | p. 379 |
| Investment Requirements for Growth | p. 382 |
| Sources of Saving | p. 387 |
| Determinants of Private Saving | p. 395 |
| Foreign Saving | p. 404 |
| Foreign Aid | p. 408 |
| 12. Fiscal Policy | p. 420 |
| The Government Budget: General Considerations | p. 421 |
| Government Expenditures | p. 422 |
| Project Appraisal and the Capital Account | p. 432 |
| Tax Policy and Public Saving | p. 442 |
| Tax Rates and Smuggling: Columbia | p. 445 |
| Tax Administration in India and Bolivia in the 1980s | p. 451 |
| Lessons From Comprehensive Tax Reform: Colombia | p. 453 |
| Taxes and Private Investment | p. 457 |
| Income Distribution | p. 461 |
| Irrigation and Equity | p. 471 |
| Economic Efficiency and the Budget | p. 472 |
| 13. Financial Policy | p. 476 |
| The Functions of a Financial System | p. 477 |
| Inflation and Savings Mobilization | p. 482 |
| Hyperinflation in Peru: 1988-90 | p. 486 |
| Interest Rates and Savings Decisions | p. 495 |
| Financial Development | p. 499 |
| Small-Scale Savings and Credit Institutions: Bangladesh and Indonesia | p. 511 |
| Monetary Policy and Price Stability | p. 512 |
| 14. Private Foreign Capital Flows, Debt, and Financial Crises | p. 521 |
| Foreign Investment and the Multinationals | p. 523 |
| Foreign Debt | p. 535 |
| The 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis | p. 548 |
| Debt Relief in Uganda | p. 554 |
| Emerging Market Financial Crises | p. 556 |
| Self-Fulfilling Creditor Panics | p. 566 |
| Part 5 Production and Trade | |
| 15. Agriculture | p. 577 |
| Agriculture's Role in Economic Development | p. 578 |
| Land Tenure and Reform | p. 584 |
| Technology of Agricultural Production | p. 593 |
| Mobilization of Agricultural Inputs | p. 604 |
| Labor Mobilization in Chinese Communes | p. 607 |
| Agricultural Price Policy | p. 612 |
| 16. Primary Exports | p. 619 |
| Export Characteristics of Developing Countries | p. 619 |
| Comparative Advantage | p. 622 |
| Primary Exports as an Engine of Growth | p. 626 |
| Recent Empirical Evidence on Primary-Export-Led Growth | p. 632 |
| Barriers to Primary-Export-Led Growth | p. 634 |
| Primary-Export-Led Growth in Malaysia | p. 636 |
| Ghana: A Case of Arrested Development | p. 640 |
| Nigeria: A Bad Case of Dutch Disease | p. 649 |
| Indonesia: Finding a Cure | p. 650 |
| 17. Industry | p. 652 |
| Industry as a Leading Sector | p. 652 |
| Investment Choices in Industry | p. 661 |
| Township and Village Enterprises in China | p. 674 |
| 18. Trade and Development | p. 677 |
| Import Substitution | p. 680 |
| Import Substitution in Kenya | p. 702 |
| Outward-Looking Trade Strategy | p. 705 |
| World Trading Arrangements | p. 723 |
| Trade Reform in Mexico, 1985-89 | p. 724 |
| 19. Managing an Open Economy | p. 734 |
| Equilibrium in a Small, Open Economy | p. 735 |
| Tales of Stabilization | p. 749 |
| Pioneering Stabilization: Chile, 1973-84 | p. 754 |
| Recovering from Mismanagement: Ghana, 1983-91 | p. 758 |
| Accumulating Reserves: Taiwan, 1980-87 | p. 760 |
| Bibliography and Additional Readings | p. A1 |
| Index | p. A31 |
| Preface | p. xv |
| International Development Resources on the Internet | p. xx |
| Part 1 Theory and Patterns | |
| 1. Introduction | p. 3 |
| Terminology: The Developing World | p. 6 |
| A Development Continuum | p. 10 |
| A Glance at History | p. 15 |
| The Concept of Substitutes | p. 18 |
| Approaches to Development | p. 24 |
| Organization | p. 26 |
| 2. Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Patterns | p. 27 |
| Estimating Gross National Product | p. 28 |
| Income Levels and Economic Growth around the World: A Brief Overview | p. 35 |
| The Progression of Growth Theory | p. 39 |
| The Harrod-Domar Growth Model | p. 43 |
| Economic Growth in Thailand | p. 50 |
| The Solow (Neoclassical) Growth Model | p. 52 |
| Empirical Evidence on Economic Growth | p. 64 |
| Explaining Differences in Growth Rates | p. 72 |
| Beyond Solow: New Approaches to Growth | p. 78 |
| Appendix Deriving the Sources of Growth Equation | p. 80 |
| 3. Structural Change | p. 83 |
| Two-Sector Models | p. 88 |
| Labor Surplus in China | p. 95 |
| Labor Surplus in Africa | p. 98 |
| Industrial Patterns of Growth | p. 99 |
| Quantitative Interindustry Models | p. 104 |
| 4. Development and Human Welfare | p. 115 |
| Concepts and Measures | p. 118 |
| Patterns of Inequality and Poverty | p. 129 |
| South Korea | p. 134 |
| Brazil | p. 135 |
| Sri Lanka | p. 136 |
| Theories of Inequality and Poverty | p. 136 |
| India | p. 137 |
| Strategies for Growth with Equity | |
| Part 2 Guilding Development | |
| 5. Guiding Development: Markets Versus Controls | p. 151 |
| Managing Development | p. 151 |
| The March Toward Markets | p. 159 |
| The Declining Effectiveness of Industrial Policy: Korea from the 1960s to the 1990s | p. 164 |
| Implementing Market Reforms | p. 169 |
| China Joins the WTO to Speed the Transition to the Market, 1999-2000 | p. 171 |
| Stabilization That Worked: Bolivia 1985-86 | p. 178 |
| The Transition to a Market System | p. 187 |
| Stabilization and Deregulation, Indonesia 1986-90 | p. 192 |
| 6. Sustainable Development | p. 195 |
| Market Failures | p. 197 |
| Soil Erosion in Java, Indonesia | p. 200 |
| Policy Solutions | p. 207 |
| Communal Forest Management in India | p. 209 |
| Reducing Water Pollution from Palm Oil Mills in Malaysia | p. 216 |
| Policy Failures | p. 220 |
| Subsidized Deforestation of the Amazon | p. 221 |
| Kerosene Subsidy in Indonesia | p. 223 |
| Valuing a Recreational Facility in Bangkok, Thailand | p. 225 |
| Measuring Sustainability | p. 225 |
| Sustainable Developments in Malaysia | p. 230 |
| Global Sustainability | p. 232 |
| Environmental Degradation and Income Levels: Three patterns | p. 236 |
| Part 3 Human Resources | |
| 7. Population | p. 245 |
| Demographic Measures | p. 246 |
| A Brief History of Human Population | p. 248 |
| The Present Demographic Situation | p. 252 |
| The Demographic Future | p. 258 |
| The Causes of Population Growth | p. 259 |
| Analyzing the Effects of Rapid Population Growth | p. 265 |
| Population Policy | p. 271 |
| Population and Family Planning in Kenya | p. 272 |
| Population and Family Planning in China | p. 274 |
| Population and Family Planning in Indonesia | p. 276 |
| 8. Labor's Role | p. 281 |
| Analyzing Employment Issues | p. 282 |
| Primary Education and Child Labor in India | p. 286 |
| The Urban Informal Sector in Indonesia | p. 290 |
| Labor Reallocation | p. 294 |
| Employment Policy | p. 302 |
| Employment Creation Strategies | p. 318 |
| 9. Education | p. 319 |
| Trends and Patterns | p. 320 |
| Education in Indonesia | p. 322 |
| Education's Role in Development | p. 329 |
| Educational Policy in Kenya and Tanzania and Its Results | p. 340 |
| 10. Health and Nutrition | p. 345 |
| Health in the Developing Countries | p. 346 |
| HIV/AIDS in Africa | p. 350 |
| Health in Sri Lanka | p. 354 |
| Effects of Health on Development | p. 354 |
| Environmental Health | p. 358 |
| Malnutrition | p. 359 |
| Medical Sevices | p. 366 |
| Supplying Medicines to Poor Countries | p. 370 |
| Health Services and the Market | p. 371 |
| Part 4 Capital Resources | |
| 11. Capital and Saving | p. 377 |
| Saving and Investment: The Basic Data | p. 379 |
| Investment Requirements for Growth | p. 382 |
| Sources of Saving | p. 387 |
| Determinants of Private Saving | p. 395 |
| Foreign Saving | p. 404 |
| Foreign Aid | p. 408 |
| 12. Fiscal Policy | p. 420 |
| The Government Budget: General Considerations | p. 421 |
| Government Expenditures | p. 422 |
| Project Appraisal and the Capital Account | p. 432 |
| Tax Policy and Public Saving | p. 442 |
| Tax Rates and Smuggling: Columbia | p. 445 |
| Tax Administration in India and Bolivia in the 1980s | p. 451 |
| Lessons From Comprehensive Tax Reform: Colombia | p. 453 |
| Taxes and Private Investment | p. 457 |
| Income Distribution | p. 461 |
| Irrigation and Equity | p. 471 |
| Economic Efficiency and the Budget | p. 472 |
| 13. Financial Policy | p. 476 |
| The Functions of a Financial System | p. 477 |
| Inflation and Savings Mobilization | p. 482 |
| Hyperinflation in Peru: 1988-90 | p. 486 |
| Interest Rates and Savings Decisions | p. 495 |
| Financial Development | p. 499 |
| Small-Scale Savings and Credit Institutions: Bangladesh and Indonesia | p. 511 |
| Monetary Policy and Price Stability | p. 512 |
| 14. Private Foreign Capital Flows, Debt, and Financial Crises | p. 521 |
| Foreign Investment and the Multinationals | p. 523 |
| Foreign Debt | p. 535 |
| The 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis | p. 548 |
| Debt Relief in Uganda | p. 554 |
| Emerging Market Financial Crises | p. 556 |
| Self-Fulfilling Creditor Panics | p. 566 |
| Part 5 Production and Trade | |
| 15. Agriculture | p. 577 |
| Agriculture's Role in Economic Development | p. 578 |
| Land Tenure and Reform | p. 584 |
| Technology of Agricultural Production | p. 593 |
| Mobilization of Agricultural Inputs | p. 604 |
| Labor Mobilization in Chinese Communes | p. 607 |
| Agricultural Price Policy | p. 612 |
| 16. Primary Exports | p. 619 |
| Export Characteristics of Developing Countries | p. 619 |
| Comparative Advantage | p. 622 |
| Primary Exports as an Engine of Growth | p. 626 |
| Recent Empirical Evidence on Primary-Export-Led Growth | p. 632 |
| Barriers to Primary-Export-Led Growth | p. 634 |
| Primary-Export-Led Growth in Malaysia | p. 636 |
| Ghana: A Case of Arrested Development | p. 640 |
| Nigeria: A Bad Case of Dutch Disease | p. 649 |
| Indonesia: Finding a Cure | p. 650 |
| 17. Industry | p. 652 |
| Industry as a Leading Sector | p. 652 |
| Investment Choices in Industry | p. 661 |
| Township and Village Enterprises in China | p. 674 |
| 18. Trade and Development | p. 677 |
| Import Substitution | p. 680 |
| Import Substitution in Kenya | p. 702 |
| Outward-Looking Trade Strategy | p. 705 |
| World Trading Arrangements | p. 723 |
| Trade Reform in Mexico, 1985-89 | p. 724 |
| 19. Managing an Open Economy | p. 734 |
| Equilibrium in a Small, Open Economy | p. 735 |
| Tales of Stabilization | p. 749 |
| Pioneering Stabilization: Chile, 1973-84 | p. 754 |
| Recovering from Mismanagement: Ghana, 1983-91 | p. 758 |
| Accumulating Reserves: Taiwan, 1980-87 | p. 760 |
| Bibliography and Additional Readings | p. A1 |
| Index | p. A31 |
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