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Leading Issues in Economic Development
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9780195680812
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Publisher
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Oxford University Press
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Subject
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Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
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Paperback
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Pages
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672
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Year
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2005
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Easier access to the issues behind economic development Completely updated and revised in this eighth edition, Leading Issues in Economic Development, covers the main issues in economic development through professional journal articles by leading scholars. These articles are edited to provide greater accessibility to an undergraduate audience and organized thematically using overview essays along withexplanatory notes and comments. This distinctive approach allows for a variety of perspectives while keeping the most important overall themes in sight. This extensive collection of articles and essays is prefaced with an introductory section that covers the measurement of development, recent economic performance of less developed countries, and the discipline of development economics. It also provides historical perspective on how the world divided into rich and poor countries and treatments of international trade, human resources, investment and finance, urbanization and the informal sector, agriculture, income distribution, political economy, as well as development and the environment. Key Features Key student and classroom aids include Renaming of Savings and Investment chapter and expansion of chapter to include contagion and development issues raised by the Asian financial crisis Political Economy expands its treatment of the political process of decision making The Human Resource chapter adds coverage of gender issues Treatment of poverty is updated to reflect recent research, and new selections are added on the role of social capital in productivity and also on transition economies. Selections are strengthened that deal with the microeconomics of development, education, health and agriculture
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Author Biography
Gerald M. Meier is Konosuke Matsushita Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Policy Analysis at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. James E. Rauch is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and Research Associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research. Table of Contents Introduction Historical Perspective International Trade and Technology Transfer Human Resources Investment and Finance Urbanization and the Informal Sector Agriculture Income Distribution Political Economy Development and the Environment
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