Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present
Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present

Author: W. W. Rostow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1992-09-24

Total Pages: 733

ISBN-13: 0195359798

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This history of theories and theorists of economic growth elucidates the economic theory, economic history, and public policy observations of the renowned scholar W. W. Rostow. Looking at the economic growth theories of the classic economists up to 1870, Rostow compares Hume and Adam Smith, Malthus and Ricardo, and J.S. Mill and Karl Marx. He then examines the period 1870-1939 and its economic theorists, including Schumpeter, Colin Clark, Kuznets, and Harrod, and surveys the three forms of growth analysis in the postwar era: formal models, statistical morphology, and development theories. This authoritative overview also includes an agenda of unresolved problems in growth analysis and a description of the five major tasks statesmen will confront over the next several generations.

The Grand Pattern of Development and the Transition of Institutions
The Grand Pattern of Development and the Transition of Institutions

Author: Martin Paldam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-19

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1009027514

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The culmination of a long-lasting and impressive research program, this book summarizes the relationship between economic development with income on the one hand and the evolution of institutions on the other; the transition of countries from one economic and social system to another. The author considers the transitions of two types of institutions: The first is external; it is legal-administrative systems with staff and buildings. The political system and the economic system are considered. The second consists of traditions and beliefs. Here corruption and religiosity are considered. Contrary to the claim that institutions are causal to development, this book demonstrates that the main direction of causality is from income to institutions. As countries get wealthy, they become secular democracies with low corruption and a mixed economic system. In this impressive coda, Paldam shows that the evolution of institutions is not causal to the economic growth process but rather follows it.

Patterns of Development, 1950 to 1983
Patterns of Development, 1950 to 1983

Author: Moises Syrquin

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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The main purpose of this report is to provide more accurate measures of the dimensions of structural transformation during the process of development, by estimating long-run patterns of development for the period 1950-83. By including the turbulent decade after 1973 it tries to assess the stability of estimates of long run transformation and the robustness of inferences derived from data about the pre-1973 period. The relatively long time-series for a large number of countries allow a more detailed examination of the relation between cross-section and time-series estimates. The typology of development patterns used in previous studies is elaborated and expanded. The study focuses on processes of resource allocation, specifically on the structures of final demand, trade, production and employment. The samples consist of up to 108 economies over the period 1950-83.

Asian Development
Asian Development

Author: William E. James

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780299117849

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While the world's attention has been focused on the spectacular economic success of Japan and Korea, the less developed countries of Asia have often been neglected. Asian Development closes the gap. In nontechnical style and with minimal mathematics, it presents an in-depth perspective on the economic development of fourteen countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia. Asian Development is mainly a story of success. Though some problems remain, Asian countries have shown remarkable resilience in responding to sharp changes in the international economy--oil shocks, world recession and inflation, exchange-rate and interest-rate fluctuations, and rapid technological change. The authors conclude that their ability to adjust to changing external conditions is closely related to intelligent governmental policies. Looking back they comment: "In the past, growth of the United States and Japan pulled up the growth rates of the smaller economies in the region." Looking forward, they predict: "In the future, increasingly it will be the growth of the Asian developing countries that acts as a catalyst to growth in the more advanced economies."

Capabilities, Power, and Institutions
Capabilities, Power, and Institutions

Author: Stephen L. Esquith

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0271036621

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Development economics, political theory, and ethics long carried on their own scholarly dialogues and investigations with almost no interaction among them. Only in the mid-1990s did this situation begin to change, primarily as a result of the pioneering work of an economist, Amartya Sen, and a philosopher who doubled as a classicist and legal scholar, Martha Nussbaum. Sen&’s Development as Freedom (1999) and Nussbaum&’s Women and Human Development (2000) together signaled the emergence of a powerful new paradigm that is commonly known as the &“capabilities approach&” to development ethics. Key to this approach is the recognition that citizens must have basic &“capabilities&” provided most crucially through health care and education if they are to function effectively as agents of economic development. Capabilities can be measured in terms of skills and abilities, opportunities and control over resources, and even moral virtues like the virtue of care and concern for others. The essays in this collection extend, criticize, and reformulate the capabilities approach to better understand the importance of power, especially institutional power. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sabina Alkire, David Barkin, Nigel Dower, Shelley Feldman, Des Gasper, Daniel Little, Asunci&ón Lera St. Clair, A. Allan Schmid, Paul B. Thompson, and Thanh-Dam Truong.

International Agricultural Development
International Agricultural Development

Author: Carl K. Eicher

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1998-11-20

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9780801858796

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Other topics include market failures, food insecurity, rural poverty, environmental degradation, income and asset inequality, fiscally sustainable organizations, the changing roles of the public and private sector in research, input delivery systems, marketing and low rates of agricultural growth in much of sub-Saharan Africa.

Export-oriented Industrialization in Developing Countries
Export-oriented Industrialization in Developing Countries

Author: Pitou van Dijck

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9789971691127

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This study describes and analyses in depth the transformation taking place in world manufacturing industry and its impact on the economies of newly industrialising countries. In Part One, the causes and characteristics of export-oriented industrialisation are studied, often using world-wide cross-country analyses. Trade policies and export strategies underlying such industrialisation processes get much attention. Part Two mainly deals with the domestic preconditions for and consequences of export-oriented manufacturing production, on the basis of detailed case studies of seven East and South-East Asian countries.

Economics and Development Studies
Economics and Development Studies

Author: Michael Tribe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1136938745

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Economics and Development Studies synthesises existing development economics literature, much of it very contemporary, in order to identify the salient issues and controversies and to make them accessible and understandable.