International Handbook of Development Economics, Volumes 1 & 2, vol Two volume set

Edited by Amitava Dutt and Jaime Ros

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781845423278
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Meaning and Measurement of Development

Paul Streeten

Ch 2 Historical Perspectives on Development

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Ch 3 Empirics of Growth and Development

Steven Durlauf, Andros Kourtellos and Chih Ming Tan

Ch 4 Structural Change and Development

Moshe Syrquin

Ch 5 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Development: The ‘Institutional’ Turn

Peter Evans

Ch 6 Data Problems and Empirical Modeling in Developing Economies

William Gibson

Ch 7 Historical Antecedents of Development Economics

Gianni Vaggi

Ch 8 Classical Development Theory

Jaime Ros

Ch 9 Theories of Dependency

José Gabriel Palma

Ch 10 Structuralism

José Gabriel Palma

Ch 11 Marxism and Development

Bob Sutcliffe

Ch 12 Institutionalist Development Economics

Kenneth Jameson

Ch 13 Neoclassical Development Economics

Salim Rashid

Ch 14 General Long-run Approaches to Growth and Development

Amitava Dutt

Ch 15 New Growth Theory and Development Economics

Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori

Ch 16 Short-run Macroeconomic Issues in Development

Peter Montiel

Ch 17 Sectoral Interactions in Development

Jorn Rattso

Ch 18 Open-Economy Issues in Development

Jose Antonio Ocampo

Ch 19 Savings, Investment and Capital Accumulation

Andrés Solimano and Mario Gutierrez

Ch 20 Role of Finance and Credit in Economic Development

Philip Arestis and Santonu Basu

Ch 21 Physical Infrastructure

Gregory K. Ingram and Marianne Fay

Ch 22 Population and Development

Dennis Ahlburg and Robert Cassen

Ch 23 Labor Markets in Developing Countries

Albert Berry

Ch 24 Education and Human Capital

George Psacharopoulos and Harry Patrinos

Ch 25 Health and Nutrition and Economic Development

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and John Hoddinott

Ch 26 Entrepreneurship and Development

E. Wayne Nafziger

Ch 27 Natural Resources and Development

Richard Auty

Ch 28 The Environment and Development

John McPeak

Ch 29 Technical Choice and Technological Change in Development

Howard Pack

Ch 30 Factor Market Imperfections in Poor Agrarian Economies

Parikshit Ghosh and Ashok Kotwal

Ch 31 The Green Revolution

Robert E. Evenson

Ch 32 Industry and Industrial Policy

Helen Shapiro

Ch 33 The Informal Sector

Victor E. Tokman

Ch 34 Services and Development

Dilip Dutta

Ch 35 Urbanization and Rural–Urban Migration

Charles M. Becker

Ch 36 International Trade and Development

Francisco Rodríguez

Ch 37 Terms of Trade and Economic Development

David Sapsford

Ch 38 Trade Policy and Development

Henry J. Bruton

Ch 39 Foreign Direct Investment

Vudayagiri Balasubramanyam

Ch 40 Private Capital Flows and Development

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Ch 41 International Capital Flows to Emerging Countries: Short- and Long-run Effects

Graciela Kaminsky

Ch 42 Foreign Aid

Steven Radelet

Ch 43 International Migration and the Brain Drain

Francisco Rivera-Batiz

Ch 44 International Technology Transfer: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment

Amy Glass and Kamal Saggi

Ch 45 International Institutions and Development

Kunibert Raffer

Ch 46 North–South Issues

Amitava Dutt

Ch 47 Measures of the Distribution of Income and their Interpretation in Developing Countries

Samuel A. Morley

Ch 48 Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development

Nancy Birdsall

Ch 49 Measuring Progress in Reducing Poverty

Lyn Squire

Ch 50 Gender Issues in Development

Diane Elson

Ch 51 Children and Development

Paul Glewwe and Amy Damon

Ch 52 Ethnicity and Economic Development

William Darity and Russell E. Triplett

Ch 53 The Role of the State and Markets in Development

Louis Putterman

Ch 54 Monetary Policy

Paul Masson

Ch 55 Fiscal Policy

Raghbendra Jha

Ch 56 Stabilization Policy and Structural Adjustment

Valpy FitzGerald

Ch 57 Economic Planning in Developing Economies

William Gibson

Ch 58 State-owned Enterprises and Privatization

Anindya Sen

Ch 59 Corruption and Development

Cheryl W. Gray

Ch 60 Law and Development

Pranab Bardhan

Ch 61 Institutions, Property Rights and Development

Jean-Philippe Platteau and Jean-Marie Baland

Ch 62 Culture and Development

Roland Hoksbergen and Charles K. Wilber

Ch 63 The Economics of War: Causes and Consequences

Frances Stewart and Graham Brown

Ch 64 Economic Development in the Third World: An International Perspective

Richard Kozul-Wright and Paul Rayment

Ch 65 Latin America and the Caribbean

Albert Fishlow

Ch 66 Sub-Saharan Africa

Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen A. O’Connell

Ch 67 The Middle East and North Africa

Omar S. Dahi and Firat Demir

Ch 68 China

Yasheng Huang

Ch 69 South Asia

Prabhat Patnaik and Jayati Ghosh

Ch 70 The East Asian Newly Industrializing Countries

K.S. Jomo

Ch 71 Transition Economies: Lessons for Development

Ruud Knaack and Henk Jager

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