Leading issues in economic development /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Meier, Gerald M., Rauch, James E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Edition:	8th ed.
Subjects:	Economic development > Textbooks. Ontwikkelingseconomie.
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Table of Contents:

I. Introduction
Overview
I.A. Measuring development
Note I.A.1. The evolution of measures of development
Selection I.A.1. Why are services cheaper in the poor countries?
Comment I.A.1. The productivity and factor proportions explanations again
Selection I.A.2. Income poverty
Comment I.A.2. Capabilities and entitlements
Note I.A.2. Other important differences between developed and less developed countries
I.B. Economic performance of less developed countries : the recent past
Selection I.B.1. The lost decades : developing countries' stagnation in spite of policy reform 1980-1998
Note I.B.1. No easy answers, yet all is not lost
Selection I.B.2. How reform worked in China
Selection I.B.3. India since independence
Selection I.B.4. The impact of the economic reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean
Selection I.B.5. Why has Africa grown slowly?
I.C. The discipline of development economics
Note I.C.1. Evolution of development economics
Comment I.C.1. Classical growth theory
Comment I.C.2. Development economics as a special subject
Note I.C.2. New endogenous growth theory
II. Historical perspective
Overview : the division of the world
Selection II.1. The spread of economic growth to the Third World :1850-1980
Comment II.1. State-owned enterprises and privatization
Selection II.2. The division of the world and the factoral terms of trade
Note II.1. Why not export first?
Note II.2. The Lewis model of the world economy
Selection II.3. Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and economic growth
Comment II.2. Income elasticity of demand for food in the Matsuyama model
Selection II.4. Income distribution, market size, and industrialization
Comment II.3. Minimum market size in the Murphy-Shleifer-Vishny model
Selection II.5. Factor endowments, inequality, and paths of development among new world economies
Selection II.6. Divergence, big time
Comment II.4. Will the poor countries catch up?
III. International trade and technology transfer
Overview
III.A. Trade
Note III.A.1. Natural resource abundance, international trade, and economic growth
Note III.A.2. Import-substituting industrialization and the infant-industry argument
Selection III.A.1. Typology in development theory : retrospective and prospects
Selection III.A.2. An exposition and exploration of Krueger's trade model
Comment III.A.1. Moving up the ladder and changes in relative costs of factors of production
Selection III.A.3. The process of industrial development and alternative development strategies
Selection III.A.4. Getting interventions right : how South Korea and Taiwan grew rich
Note III.A.3. Tradeability of intermediate goods, linkages, and bottlenecks
III.B. Foreign contact and technology transfer
Note III.B.1. Learning in international production networks
Selection III.B.1. Technology gaps between industrial and developing countries : are there dividends for latecomers?
Selection III.B.2. The potential benefits of FDI for less developed countries
Note III.B.2. Trade as enemy, handmaiden, and engine of growth
IV. Human resources
Overview
IV.A. Education
Note IV.A.1. Three views of the contribution of education to economic growth
Selection IV.A.1. Economic impact of education
Comment IV.A.1. Updated estimates of returns to investment in education
Comment IV.A.2. Ability differences, spillovers, and the returns to investment in education
Selection IV.A.2. Creating human capital
Selection IV.A.3. Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia
Selection IV.A.4. Interpreting recent research on schooling in developing countries
Selection IV.A.5. School inputs and educational outcomes in South Africa
IV.B. Health
Selection IV.B.1. Pharmaceuticals and the developing world
Selection IV.B.2. Identifying impacts of intestinal worms on health in the presence of treatment externalities
Selection IV.B.3. Confronting AIDS
IV.C. Population
Note IV.C.1. The size of the world's population and the size of the average family
Selection IV.C.1. Economic approaches to population growth
Selection IV.C.2. Demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa
Comment IV.C.1. The "demographic dividend"
IV.D. Gender and development
Selection IV.D.1. Gender inequality at the start of the 21st century
Selection IV.D.2. Missing women
Selection IV.D.3. Women as policy makers
V. Investment and finance
Overview : investment and finance : the engines of growth?
Note V.1. The AK model
Selection V.1. Is fixed investment the key to economic growth?
Selection V.2. Financial development and economic growth
Selection V.3. Taming international capital flows
Selection V.4. Can foreign aid buy growth ?
Selection V.5. The microfinance promise
VI. Urbanization and the informal sector
Overview
VI.A. Urban growth and infrastructure
Selection VI.A.1. Urban growth in developing countries : a demographic reappraisal
Selection VI.A.2. Urban primacy, external costs, and quality of life
Selection VI.A.3. The impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality in Argentina
VI.B. Rural-urban migration and the informal sector
Selection VI.B.1. Economic development with unlimited supplies of labor
Selection VI.B.2. A model of labor migration and urban unemployment in less developed countries
Note VI.B.1. The Lewis versus the Harris-Todaro view of underemployment in less developed countries
Selection VI.B.3. Wage spillover and unemployment in a wage-gap economy : the Jamaican case
Note VI.B.2. Econometric studies of migration
Selection VI.B.4. Labour market modelling and the urban informal sector : theory and evidence
Selection VI.B.5. The role of the informal sector in the migration process : a test of probabilistic migration models and labour market segmentation for India
VII. Agriculture
Overview
VII.A. Designing an agricultural strategy
Selection VII.A.1. Agriculture, climate, and technology : why are the Tropics falling behind?
Note VII.A.1. Food, hunger, famine
Selection VII.A.2. Agricultural development strategies
Note VII.A.2. Induced technical and institutional change
Comment VII.A.1. The green revolution
Selection VII.A.3. Some theoretical aspects of agricultural policies
Selection VII.A.4. Rural infrastructure
Selection VII.A.5. Prospects and strategies for land reform
VII.B. Microeconomics of the rural sector
Selection VII.B.1. The new development economics
Selection VII.B.2. Contractual arrangements, employment, and wages in rural labor markets : a critical review
Selection VII.B.3. The new institutional economics and development theory
Selection VII.B.4. Rural credit markets and institutions in developing countries : lessons fro policy analysis from practice and modern theory
Selection VII.B.5. A survey of agricultural household models : recent findings and policy implications
Comment VII.B.1. Supply functions and price responsiveness
VIII. Income distribution
Overview
Note VIII.1. Measurement of income inequality
VIII.A. The impact of development on income distribution
Selection VIII.A.1. Economic growth and income inequality
Selection VIII.A.2. A note on the U hypothesis relating income inequality and economic development
Selection VIII.A.3. Economic development, urban underemployment, and income inequality
Comment VIII.A.1. The informal sector, intraurban inequality, and the inverted U
Selection VIII.A.4. Explaining inequality the world round : cohort size, Kuznets curves, and openness
Comment VIII.A.2. Evidence for the inverted U across countries versus within countries over time
VIII.B. The impact of income distribution on development
Selection VIII.B.1. The middle class consensus and economic development
Selection VIII.B.2. Income distribution, political instability, and investment
VIII.C. Case studies
Selection VIII.C.1. Rising inequality in China, 1981-1995
Selection VIII.C.2. Falling inequality in rural Indonesia, 1978-1993
IX. Political economy
Overview
IX.A. The (proper) role of the state in less developed countries
Selection IX.A.1 Public policy and the economics of development
Comment IX.A.1. Development planning
Comment IX.A.2. Governing the market
IX.B. Rent seeking and government failure
Note IX.B.1. What are rents?
Selection IX.B.1. The political economy of the rent-seeking society
Comment IX.B.1. Complete rent dissipation through competitive rent seeking in the Harris-Todaro model
Comment IX.B.2. The relationship between rent seeking and corruption
Selection IX.B.2. The regulation of entry
Selection IX.B.3. Africa's growth tragedy : policies and ethnic divisions
IX.C. State capacity
Selection IX.C.1. Institutions and economic performance : cross-country tests using alternative institutional measures
Selection IX.C.2. The state as problem and solution : predation, embedded autonomy, and structural change
Selection IX.C.3. Taking trade policy seriously : export subsidization as a case study in policy effectiveness
Selection IX.C.4. Bureaucratic structure and bureaucratic performance in less developed countries
X. Development and the environment
Overview : environmental problems in less versus more developed countries
Selection X.1. Development and the environment
Comment X.1. The "environmental Kuznets curve"
Selection X.2. North-South trade and the global environment
Comment X.2. Empirical studies of the impact of international trade on the environment in less developed countries
Selection X.3. Deforestation and the rule of law in a cross section of countries
Selection X.4. Determinants of pollution abatement in developing countries : evidence from South and Southeast Asia
Selection X.5. Genuine savings rates in developing countries
Appendix. How to read a regression table.