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Current Issues in Development Economics

  • Textbook
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. V. N. Balasubramanyam

    1. Management School Lancaster University, UK

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  2. Sanjaya Lall

    1. Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics, UK

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Part of the book series: Current Issues in Economics (CIE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Current Issues In Development Economics: Introduction and Overview

    • V. N. Balasubramanyam, Sanjaya Lall
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Evolution of Development Economics

    • J. B. Knight
    Pages 10-22

  4. Institutional and Technical Change in Agriculture

    • A. J. Rayner, K. A. Ingersent
    Pages 23-49

  5. Achieving Food Security

    • Alasdair I. Macbean
    Pages 50-68

  6. The Principles of Targeting

    • Timothy Besley, Ravi Kanbur
    Pages 69-90

  7. The Macroeconomics of External Shocks

    • David Bevan, Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning
    Pages 91-117

  8. Explaining Industrial Success in the Developing World

    • Sanjaya Lall
    Pages 118-155

  9. New Trade Theories and Developing Countries

    • David Greenaway
    Pages 156-170

  10. Managing the Debt Legacy: Approaches to Resolution

    • P. N. Snowden
    Pages 171-195

  11. Economic Development and Services

    • Brian Hindley
    Pages 196-222

  12. Structural Adjustment: A General Overview, 1980–9

    • Paul Mosley
    Pages 223-242

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 243-287
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About this book

This book brings together discussion of the key contemporary issues in development economics. The chapters are specially written by well known international authors and provide a succinct survey of recent theoretical developments and the analysis of policy prescriptions. The book is written in a clear and accessible style and will provide students with an essential guide to current issues in development economics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Management School Lancaster University, UK

    V. N. Balasubramanyam

  • Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics, UK

    Sanjaya Lall

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