Issues in Contemporary Economics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Agriculture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Public Choice, Markets and the Problem of Ensuring an Adequate Minimum Level of Welfare

      • Edward F. McClennen

      Pages 3-23

   3. Environmental and Agricultural Issues: What is the Alternative to Public Choice Theory?

      • Peter Söderbaum

      Pages 24-42

   4. Public Choice and Agricultural Policy: The Case of the CAP

      • Konrad Hagedorn

      Pages 43-71

   5. Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Community

      • Monika Hartmann, Wilhelm Henrichsmeyer, Peter Michael Schmitz

      Pages 72-97

   6. Public Choice and Agriculture: An American Example

      • Gordon Tullock, Jimmye Hillman

      Pages 98-118

3. Food and Nutrition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Government Policy, Food Security and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Per Pinstrup-Andersen

      Pages 121-147

   3. Food Security and Policy Reform in Mali and the Sahel

      • Josué Dioné

      Pages 148-169

   4. Food Deprivation and Undernutrition in Rural Bangladesh

      • Siddiq R. Osmani

      Pages 170-190

   5. Undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Sex Bias?

      • Peter Svedberg

      Pages 191-213

4. Trade Policies for Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Real Exchange Rate Policies for Economic Development: A Heterodox Interpretation

      • Pan A. Yotopoulos

      Pages 217-240

   3. A Lost Generation? Why Latin American Development Depends on Growth

      • Clark W. Reynolds

      Pages 241-265

   4. The Determinants of Manufacturing Exports From Latin America

      • Simón Teitel

      Pages 266-290

   5. Recent Industrial Growth and Development in Kenya: Constraints and Prospects for the Future

      • Eckhard Siggel

      Pages 291-311

   6. External Debt Service, Growth and Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Triad Plan

      • Bingu Wa Mutharika

      Pages 312-331

5. Central Planning for Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 333-333

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   2. The Changing Image of Modern Socialism

      • Oleg T. Bogomolov

      Pages 335-348

This book is Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the World Economic Congress held in Athens in 1989 under the auspices of the International Economic Association. It considers various aspects of economic policy and development faced by countries with different social, cultural and political systems.

• economic development
• economic policy
• European Community
• political economy

• Department of Economics, Cambridge University, UK

  Partha Dasgupta

• Department of Economics and Philosophy, Stanford University, USA

  Partha Dasgupta

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