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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

Studies in Development Economics and Policy

© UNU-WIDER

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

Context

Project
Jubilee conference - WIDER thinking ahead
Keywords
Economic development Methodology (Economics) Equality and inequality Globalization International finance Poverty