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100 1 $aThirlwall, A. P.
245 10 $aGrowth and development :$bwith special reference to developing economies /$cA.P. Thirlwall.
246 14 $aGrowth & development
250 $a7th ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2003.
300 $axxvii, 816 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 737-771) and indexes.
505 0 $aDevelopment and Underdevelopment -- The Study of Economic Development -- Development economics as a subject -- Academic interest in development -- The new international economic order -- Globalisation and interdependence of the world economy -- The meaning of development and the challenge of development economics -- The perpetuation of underdevelopment -- The Development Gap and the Measurement of Poverty -- The development gap and income distribution in the world economy -- The measurement and comparability of per capita incomes -- Per capita income as an index of development -- Measuring poverty -- Tackling poverty -- Human Poverty Index and Human Development Index -- Can the poor countries ever catch up? -- The Characteristics of Underdevelopment and Structural Change -- The characteristics of underdevelopment -- Other dimensions of the development gap -- The distribution of income -- Growth and distribution -- Poverty-weighted growth rates -- Nutrition and health -- Poverty, famine and entitlements -- Food production -- Basic needs -- Stages of development and structural change -- Rostow's stages of growth -- Industrialisation and growth -- Kaldor's growth laws -- Theories of Economic Growth: Why Growth Rates Differ Between Countries -- Classical growth theory -- The Harrod-Domar growth model -- Neoclassical growth theory -- The production-function approach to the analysis of growth -- 'New' (endogenous) growth theory and the macrodeterminants of growth -- Factors in the Development Process -- Land, Labour and Agriculture -- The role of agriculture in development -- Barriers to agricultural development -- The organisation of agriculture and land reform -- The supply response of agriculture -- Transforming traditional agriculture -- The growth of the money economy -- Finance for traditional agriculture -- The interdependence of agriculture and industry -- Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour -- A model of the complementarity between agriculture and industry -- Rural-urban migration and urban unemployment -- Disguised unemployment: types and measurement -- Incentives and the costs of labour transfer -- Capital and Technical Progress -- The role of capital in development -- The capital-output ratio -- Technical progress -- Capital- and labour saving technical progress -- How societies progress technologically -- Learning -- Investment in human capital: education -- Women's education -- Infrastructure investment -- Obstacles to Development -- Dualism, Centre-Periphery Models and the Process of Cumulative Causation -- Dualism -- The process of cumulative causation -- Regional inequalities -- International inequality and centre-periphery models -- Models of 'regional' growth rate differences: Prebisch, Seers and Kaldor -- The Prebisch model -- The Seers' model -- An export growth model of regional growth rate differences -- The new economic geography -- Theories of dependence and unequal exchange -- Population and Development -- Facts about world population -- The determinants of fertility -- The costs and benefits of population growth -- Enke's work -- Simon's challenge -- The 'optimum' population -- A model of the low-level equilibrium trap -- The critical minimum effort thesis -- The Role of the State, the Allocation of Resources, Sustainable Development and the Choice of Techniques -- Resource Allocation in Developing Countries: The Market Mechanism and the Role of the State -- The market mechanism and market failures -- The role of the state -- Corruption -- Development plans -- Policy models -- Projection models -- The allocation of resources: the broad policy choices -- Industry versus agriculture -- The comparative cost doctrine -- Present versus future consumption -- Choice of techniques -- Balanced versus unbalanced growth -- Investment criteria -- Early discussion of project choice -- The social welfare function -- Project Appraisal, Social Cost-Benefit Analysis and Shadow Wages -- Project appraisal -- Financial appraisal -- Economic appraisal -- Divergences between market prices and social values -- Economic prices for goods -- Non-traded goods and conversion factors -- Traded goods -- Shadow prices for factors of production -- The social rate of discount -- The social cost of investment -- The shadow wage rate -- A closer examination of the change in consumption in industry and agriculture -- The valuation of production forgone and the increase in consumption -- A numerical calculation of the shadow wage -- Social appraisal -- The equivalence of the Little-Mirrlees formulation of the shadow wage and the UNIDO approach -- Is it worth valuing all goods at world prices? -- A simple numerical example showing the application of the Little-Mirrlees and UNIDO approaches to project appraisal -- Development and the Environment -- A model of the environment and economic activity -- The market-based approach to environmental analysis -- Externalities -- Common property rights -- The discount rate -- The harvesting of renewable resources -- Non-renewable resources -- Other environmental values -- Measuring environmental values -- National income accounting -- Risk and uncertainty -- Economic growth and the environment -- Sustainable development -- Natural capital and equity -- Economic thought and the environment -- International agencies and the environment -- The Choice of Techniques -- The capital intensity of techniques in developing countries -- The conflict between employment and output and employment and saving in the choice of techniques -- Employment versus output -- Aggregative implications of factor substitution -- Employment versus saving -- Wages and the capital intensity of production -- Different classes' propensity to consume -- Support of the unemployed -- Are consumption and investment distinct? -- Taxes and subsidies -- Input-Output Analysis -- The uses of input-output analysis -- The input-output table -- Input coefficients -- A digression on matrix inversion -- The general solution to the input-output model -- Forecasting import requirements -- Forecasting labour requirements -- Forecasting investment requirements -- Backward and forward linkages -- Triangularised input-output tables -- The input-output table of Papua New Guinea -- The assumptions of input-output analysis -- Input-output, linkage analysis and development strategy -- Empirical studies of linkages -- The Hirschman compliance index and the growth of countries -- Financing Economic Development -- Financing Development from Domestic Resources -- Forms of saving -- The capacity to save -- The willingness to save -- Financial systems and economic development -- The informal financial sector -- Monetisation and money market integration -- Developing a banking system -- Special development banks and micro-credit -- Financial intermediaries -- Financial liberalisation -- Critics of financial liberalisation and empirical evidence -- Fiscal policy and taxation -- Tax reform in developing countries -- Inflation, savings and growth -- The Keynesian approach to the financing of development -- Reconciling the prior-saving and forced-saving approaches to development -- The quantity theory approach to the financing of development -- Non-inflationary financing of investment -- The dangers of inflation -- Inflation and growth: the empirical evidence -- The inflationary experience -- The structuralist-monetarist debate in Latin America -- Foreign Assistance, Debt and Development -- Dual-gap analysis and foreign borrowing -- Models of capital imports and growth -- Capital imports, domestic saving and the capital-output ratio -- Types of international capital flows -- The debate over international assistance to developing countries -- The motives for official assistance -- Assessing the impact of aid -- The total net flow of financial resources to developing countries -- Official Development Assistance (ODA) -- Total net flow of financial resources from DAC countries -- UK assistance to developing countries -- The recipients of external assistance -- Aid tying -- Multilateral assistance -- World Bank activities -- Structural adjustment lending -- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers -- Estimating the aid component of international assistance -- The distribution of international assistance -- Schemes for increasing the flow of revenue -- Foreign direct investment and multinational corporations -- International debt and debt-service problems -- The debt crisis of the 1980s -- Debt relief -- The highly indebted poor country initiative (HIPC) -- Debt rescheduling -- Debt service capping -- Debt buybacks and debt swaps -- Repayment of loans in local currency -- Long term solutions -- International Trade, the Balance of Payments and Development -- Trade and Development -- The gains from trade -- The static gains from trade -- The dynamic gains from trade -- Trade as a vent for surplus -- Free trade and export-led growth -- Theory of Customs Unions and Free Trade Areas -- Empirical evidence on the growth effects of Customs Unions and trade liberalisation -- Trade liberalisation and growth -- Trade liberalisation, exports and growth -- Models of export-led growth -- Trade and employment -- The disadvantages of free trade for development -- Tariffs versus subsidies as a means of protection -- Import-substitution versus export promotion -- Alternative approaches to trade in developing countries: the Prebisch doctrine -- Technical progress and the terms of trade -- The income elasticity of demand for products and the balance of payments -- Recent trends in the terms of trade -- Trade policies towards developing countries -- Effective protection -- International commodity agreements -- Buffer stock schemes -- Restriction schemes -- Price compensation schemes -- Income compensation schemes -- Producer cartels -- Trade versus aid -- The Balance of Payments, International Monetary Assistance and Development.
505 8 $aBalance-of-payments-constrained growth -- The terms of trade -- The exchange rate and devaluation -- The IMF supply-side approach to devaluation -- The growth of world income and structural change -- Application of the balance-of-payments-constrained growth model -- Capital flows -- Exchange-rate systems for developing countries -- The East Asian financial crisis: a cautionary tale -- The international monetary system and developing countries -- How the IMF works -- Ordinary drawing rights -- Extended Fund Facility (EFF) -- Special Facilities -- Compensatory Financing Facility (CFF) -- Supplemental Reserve Facility (SRF) -- Contingent Credit Line (CCL) -- Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) -- Criticisms of the IMF -- The results of IMF programmes -- Special Drawing Rights and the developing countries.
650 0 $aEconomic development.
651 0 $aDeveloping countries$xEconomic conditions.
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