Reflections on Economic Development

Reflections on Economic Development

Author: Michael P. Todaro

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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This collection of Todaro's essays focuses on a wide range of topics in economic development, including rural-urban migration, international legal and illegal migration, population growth, technological change, education, the environment and ethics.


Reflections on Human Development

Reflections on Human Development

Author: Mahbub ul Haq

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1995-08-17

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0195356306

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This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being. Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not as the end of development, and certainly not as the sum of human life. Development policies and strategies are discussed which link economic growth with human lives in various societies. The book also analyzes the evolution of a new Human Development Index which is a far more comprehensive measure of socio-economic progress of nations than the traditional measure of Gross National Product. For the first time, a Political Freedom Index is also presented. The book offers a new vision of human security for the twenty-first century where real security is equated with security of people in their homes, their jobs, their communities, and their environment. The book discusses many concrete proposals in this context, including a global compact to overcome the worst aspects of global poverty within a decade, key reforms in the Bretton Woods institutions of World Bank and IMF, and establishment of a new Economic Security Council within the United Nations.


Singapore's Economic Development

Singapore's Economic Development

Author: Linda Y. C. LIM

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9814723479

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"Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a variety of policies put into place over the past 50 years since its independence. Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections provides a retrospective analysis of independent Singapore's economic development, from the perspective of different policy domains each considered by different expert scholars in that particular field. The book is written by academic economists in a style that is accessible to non-experts. Each chapter includes reviews of past scholarship, current data on each policy area, and reflections on required or desirable future policy changes and outcomes"--


Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India

Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India

Author: Raju J. Das

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-02

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 9004415564

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In this book, Das presents a class-based perspective on the economic and political situation in contemporary India in a globalizing world. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, as well as poverty/inequality, geographically uneven development, technological change, and export-oriented, nature-dependent production. The book also deals with Left-led struggles in the form of the Naxalite/Maoist movement and trade-union strikes, and presents a non-sectarian Left critique of the Left. It also discusses the politics of the Right expressed as fascistic tendencies, and the question of what is to be done. The book applies abstract theoretical ideas to the concrete situation in India, which, in turn, inspires rethinking of theory. Das unabashedly shows the relevance of class theory that takes seriously the matter of oppression/domination of religious minorities and lower castes.


Thoughts on Economic Development in China

Thoughts on Economic Development in China

Author: Ma Ying

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0415684277

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This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world. The book describes important stages in the evolution, cross-fertilization and contextual modification of ideas about economic order, development and institutional change. It illustrates how Western concepts and theories have been adopted and adapted to Chinese conditions in different waves of modernization from the late 19th century until the present and that this was and is no one-way traffic. The book describes how pre-classical thinking in the West, in particular French Physiocracy in mid-18th century, was influenced by China as an ideal and a source of ideas, at a time when China was the largest and most advanced economy in the world. It discusses to what extent concepts of Western-style economics, in particular in the fields of development economics and institutional economics, can be used to understand the rapid transitions and developments of the Chinese economy in recent decades, and to what extent they might need to be modified in the light of new experiences and insights. Against this background, several contributions to the volume provide assessments of the current state of economic science and teaching in China, in particular with regard to Chinese views on Western economics. The book should be of interest to those who are interested in economic development and the history of economics in China.


The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics

The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics

Author: Machiko Nissanke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-08-12

Total Pages: 918

ISBN-13: 3030140008

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This Handbook responds to the needs and aspirations of current and future generations of development economists by providing critical reference material alongside or in relation to mainstream propositions. Despite the potential of globalisation in accelerating growth and development in low and middle-income countries through the spread of technology, knowledge and information, its current practice in many parts of the world has led to processes that are socially, economically and politically and ecologically unsustainable. It is critical for development economists to engage with the pivotal question of how to change the nature and course of globalisation to make it work for inclusive and sustainable development. Applying a critical and pluralistic approach, the chapters in this Handbook examine economics of development paths under globalisation, focusing on sustainable development in social, environmental, institutional and political economy dimensions. It aims at advancing the frontier of development economics in these key aspects and generating more refined policy perspectives. It is critically reflective in examining effects of globalisation on development paths to date, and in terms of methodological and analytical approaches, as well as forward-thinking in policy perspectives with a view to laying a foundation for sustainable development.


Paradigms in Economic Development

Paradigms in Economic Development

Author: Rajani K. Kanth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1315287110

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This volumes presents classic readings on the theory of economic development, from the origins of "development studies" as an academic discipline through its critiques and responses to the present day.


The Political Economy of Latin America

The Political Economy of Latin America

Author: Peter Kingstone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-01-28

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1135839816

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This brief text offers an unbiased reflection on the neoliberalism debate in Latin America and the institutional puzzle that underlies the region's difficulties with democratization and development.


Reflection Without Rules

Reflection Without Rules

Author: D. Wade Hands

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-04-09

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9780521797962

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This book is a comprehensive and often controversial survey of economic methodology.


Toward a Theory of Economic Growth

Toward a Theory of Economic Growth

Author: Simon Kuznets

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780393004298

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The two essays in this volume can be termed essential building blocks for constructing a systematic approach toward a theory of economic growth. Drawing on his noted quantitative studies of modern economic growth, Professor Kuznets presents his views on the complex growth process and analyzes the implications of such specific factors as population, urbanization, industrialization, agriculture, and trade between nations. He discusses the relationship of social and political structure to economic processes, and how economic growth is affected by international relations as well as by the internal conditions of the society.