Trade, Planning and Rural Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Azizur Rahman Khan, Rehman Sobhan

      Pages 1-5

3. Trade and Aid

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Parabolic Welfare Functions and Development Assistance

      • Jan Tinbergen

      Pages 9-17

   3. Cost of Directly Unproductive Profit-Seeking and Rent-Seeking Activities: Some Conceptual Issues

      • Jagdish N. Bhagwati

      Pages 18-26

   4. On Some Unresolved Issues in Optimum Tariff Theory

      • Wahidul Hague

      Pages 27-35

   5. Comparative Advantage and Free Trade

      • Paul Streeten

      Pages 36-52

   6. The Governance Gap

      • Just Faaland, Jack Parkinson

      Pages 53-75

4. Planning and Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Participatory Development: Some Perspectives from Grassroots Experience

      • Dharam Ghai

      Pages 79-115

   3. The Changing Role of Economic Planning in Japan

      • Saburo Okita

      Pages 116-124

   4. Project Evaluation as an Aid to Planning: How Successful has the Innovation Been?

      • Azizur Rahman Khan

      Pages 125-135

5. Rural Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. A View of Rural Development, 1980s Vintage (or why some of the Emperor’s clothes — and his rice — should be made at home)

      • Gustav Ranis

      Pages 139-155

   3. Poverty and Development: Prospects and Priorities for the 1990s

      • John W. Mellor

      Pages 156-173

   4. Some Reflections on Bangladesh Development: Looking Backward to the Future

      • Mark W. Leiserson

      Pages 174-180

   5. Foodgrain Pricing Policy in Bangladesh: Procurement, Sales, Imports and Public Stocks

      • Abu A. Abdullah

      Pages 181-198

   6. Returns from Education in Rural Bangladesh

      • Mahabub Hossain

      Pages 199-219

6. In Lieu of a Conclusion:A Personal Reminiscence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Economics Comes of Age in a Developing Country: the Case of Bangladesh

      • Austin Robinson

      Pages 223-230

A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner. The essays fall under three subject headings - international trade and aid, planning and rural development.

• development
• international trade
• Japan

• University of California, Riverside, USA

  Azizur Rahman Khan

• Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, Bengal

  Rehman Sobhan

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