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Advancing Development

Core Themes in Global Economics

Leading scholars and policymakers reflect on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen during the next two decades. Covering the major themes in development in an accessible way, this original and authoritative contribution highlights new and emerging issues, and shows how research can improve our understanding of these important questions. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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George Mavrotas

Anthony F. Shorrocks

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January 2007

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents
  1. Part I: Development Economics in Retrospect
    The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005
    Erik Thorbecke
    Working Paper | The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005
  2. Part I: Development Economics in Retrospect
    Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice
    Louis Emmerij
    Working Paper | Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice
  3. Part I: Development Economics in Retrospect
    From Seers to Sen :: The Meaning of Economic Development
    Wayne Nafziger
    Working Paper | From Seers to Sen
  4. Part I: Development Economics in Retrospect
    Inequality in Historical Perspective
    Richard Jolly
    Working Paper | Inequality in Historical Perspective
  5. Part II: Inequality and Conflict
    Health Improvements and Health Inequality During the Last 40 Years
    Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Leonardo Menchini
    Working Paper | Health Improvements and Health Inequality during the Last 40 Years
  6. Part II: Inequality and Conflict
    Inequality and Corruption
    Eric M. Uslaner
    Working Paper | Corruption and Inequality
  7. Part II: Inequality and Conflict
    Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security
    Mansoob Murshed
    Working Paper | Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security
  8. Part II: Inequality and Conflict
    Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence in Early Post-conflict Transitions and its Implications for Development
    Marcia Byrom Hartwell
    Working Paper | Violence in Peace
  9. Part III: Human Development and Well-Being
    International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development?: Evidence for 1975 to 2002
    Farhad Noorbakhsh
    Working Paper | International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development?
  10. Part III: Human Development and Well-Being
    Investing in Health for Economic Development :: The Case of Mexico
    Nora Lustig
    Working Paper | Investing in Health for Economic Development
  11. Part III: Human Development and Well-Being
    A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education
    David Fielding, Mark McGillivray, Sebastian Torres
    Working Paper | A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness
  12. Part III: Human Development and Well-Being
    Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development?
    Stephen Knowles
    Working Paper | Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development?
  13. Part IV: Globalisation
    Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy
    Nancy Birdsall
    Working Paper | Stormy Days on an Open Field
  14. Part IV: Globalisation
    A Quest for Pro-Poor Globalisation
    Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke
    Working Paper | A Quest for Pro-Poor Globalization
  15. Part IV: Globalisation
    International Migration in an Era of Globalisation
    Arjan de Haan
    Working Paper | Migration in the Development Studies Literature
  16. Part V: Development Finance
    International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
    Valpy Fitzgerald
    Working Paper | International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
  17. Part V: Development Finance
    Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating the IMF Responsibility
    Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani
    Working Paper | Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure
  18. Part V: Development Finance
    International Finance and the Developing World: The Next Twenty Years
    Tony Addison
    Working Paper | International Finance and the Developing World
  19. Part VI: Growth and Poverty
    Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Evidence
    Mark Blackden, Sudharshan Canagarajah, Stephan Klasen, David Lawson
    Working Paper | Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
  20. Part VI: Growth and Poverty
    Decomposing Growth: Do Low-income and HIPC Countries Differ from High-income Countries?
    Pertti Haaparanta, Heli Virta
    Working Paper | Decomposing Growth: Do Low-Income and HIPCs Differ from High-Income Countries?
  21. Part VI: Growth and Poverty
    Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes: International Comparisons
    Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son
    Working Paper | Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes
  22. Part VI: Growth and Poverty
    Innovations, High-Tech Trade and Industrial Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
    Lakhwinder Singh
    Working Paper | Innovations, High-Tech Trade and Industrial Development
  23. Part VI: Growth and Poverty
    Manufacturing, Services and Premature De-industrialization in Developing Countries
    Partha Dasgupta, Ajit Singh
    Working Paper | Manufacturing, Services and Premature Deindustrialization in Developing Countries
  24. Part VII: Development Strategies
    Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America?
    Guillermo Rozenwurcel
    Working Paper | Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America?
  25. Part VII: Development Strategies
    Development in Chile 1990-2005: Lessons From a Positive Experience
    Álvaro García Hurtado
    Working Paper | Development in Chile 1990-2005
  26. Part VII: Development Strategies
    Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning From Successes and Failures
    Annelies Zoomers
    Working Paper | Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa
  27. Part VII: Development Strategies
    Development Strategy, Viability and Economic Institutions: Case of China
    Justin Lin, Mingxing Liu, Shiyuan Pan, Pengfei Zhang
    Working Paper | Development Strategy, Viability, and Economic Institutions
  28. Part VII: Development Strategies
    Institutions, Policies and Economic Development
    Grzegorz W. Kolodko
    Working Paper | Institutions, Policies and Economic Development
  29. Part VII: Development Strategies
    Patterns of Rent-Extraction and Deployment in Developing Countries: Implications for Governance, Economic Policy and Performance
    Richard M. Auty
    Working Paper | Patterns of Rent-Extraction and Deployment in Developing Countries
  30. Part VII: Development Strategies
    Credit Co-operatives in Locally-Financed Economic Development: Using Energy Efficiency as Lever
    Robert J. McIntyre
    Working Paper | Credit Co-operatives in Locally Financed Economic Development
  31. Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect
    Development Through Globalisation?
    Deepak Nayyar
    Working Paper | Development through Globalization?
  32. Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect
    Do We Need a New 'Great Transformation?: Is One Likely?
    Frances Stewart
    Working Paper | Do We Need a New 'Great Transformation'? Is One Likely?
  33. Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect
    Building Absorptive Capacity to Meet the Millennium Development Goals
    François Bourguignon, Mark Sundberg
    Working Paper | Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs
  34. Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect
    Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy
    Leigh Anderson, Kostas G. Stamoulis
    Working Paper | Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy
  35. Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect
    The Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the 21st Century: Critical Trends and New Challenges
    Mihaly Simai
    Working Paper | The Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the 21st Century
  36. Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect
    Development Questions for 25 Years
    Lance Taylor
    Working Paper | Development Questions for 25 Years
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Endorsements

'The impressively broad range of issues in global economics that are covered in this volume bring out not only the diversity of problems that are all quite important for development in the contemporary world, but also the fact, in which there is reason to take some pride, that WIDER, as a new institute of research, has been able to contribute substantially to such a variety of fields, informed by a good understanding of the need for coverage as well as quality.' - From the Foreword by Amartya Sen

'Contains excellent essays on the dynamics of economic development ... The vastness of this book's coverage makes it impossible to do justice to its contents ... the book is an excellent survey of the thinking on development.' - S.L. Rao, The Hindu

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