ISBN:
9780230801462
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXXVIII, 803 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
Studies in Development Economics and Policy
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
Series Statement:
Springer ebook collection / Palgrave Economics and Finance Collection 2000 - 2013
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Advancing development
Keywords:
World Institute for Development Economics Research Congresses
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World Institute for Development Economics Research Congresses
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Entwicklungstheorie
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Economics
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Political economy
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International economics
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Economic policy
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Development economics
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Development economics Congresses
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Economic development Congresses
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653
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WIDER
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653
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Development economics research
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Entwicklungsländer
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Entwicklungspolitik
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Entwicklungshilfe
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Geschichte
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Entwicklungstheorie
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Entwicklungsländer
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Entwicklungspolitik
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Entwicklungshilfe
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Geschichte
Abstract:
This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Boxes; List of Figures; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Legacy - Lal Jayawardena; Part I: Development Economics in Retrospect; Part II: Inequality and Conflict; Part III: Human Development and Wellbeing; Part IV: Globalization; Part V: Development Finance; Part VI: Growth and Poverty; Part VII: Development Strategies; Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect; Index of Names; Subject Index
Description / Table of Contents:
The evolution of the development doctrine, 1950-2005 / Erik ThorbeckeTurning points in development thinking and practice / Louis Emmerij -- From Seers to Sen : the meaning of economic development / E. Wayne Nafziger -- Inequality in historical perspective / Richard Jolly -- Health improvements and health inequality during the last 40 years / Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Leonardo Menchini -- Inequality and corruption / Eric M. Uslaner -- Indivisibility, fairness, farsightedness and their implications for security / S. Mansoob Murshed -- Violence in peace : understanding increased violence in early post-conflict transitions and its implications for development / Marcia Byrom Hartwell -- International convergence or higher inequality in human development? Evidence for 1975-2002 / Farhad Noorbakhsh -- Investing in health for economic development : the case of Mexico / Nora Lustig -- A wider approach to aid effectiveness : correlated impacts on health, wealth, fertility and education / David Fielding, Mark McGillivray and Sebastian Torres -- Is social capital part of the institutions continuum and is it a deep determinant of development? / Stephen Knowles -- Stormy days on an open field : asymmetries in the global economy / Nancy Birdsall -- A quest for pro-poor globalization / Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke -- International migration in an era of globalization : has it come out of its marginality? / Arjan de Haan -- International risk tolerance, capital market failure and capital flows to emerging markets / Valpy FitzGerald -- Prolonged use and conditionality failure : investigating IMF responsibility / Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani -- International finance and the developing world : the next 20 years / Tony Addison -- Gender and growth in sub-Saharan Africa : issues and evidence / Mark Blackden ... [et al.] -- Decomposing growth : do low-income and HIPCs differ from high-income countries? / Pertti Haaparanta and Heli Virta -- Evaluating targeting efficiency of government programmes : international comparisons / Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son -- Innovations, high-tech trade and industrial development : theory, evidence and policy / Lakhwinder Singh -- Manufacturing, services and premature deindustrialization in developing countries : a Kaldorian analysis / Sukti Dasgupta and Ajit Singh -- Why have all development strategies failed in Latin America? / Guillermo Rozenwurcel -- Development in Chile 1990-2005 : lessons from a positive experience / Alvaro García Hurtado -- Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa : learning from successes and failures / Annettes Zoomers -- Development strategy, viability and economic institutions : the case of China / Justin Yifu Lin ... [et al.] -- Institutions, policies and economic development / Grzegorz W. Kolodko -- Patterns of rent extraction and deployment in developing countries : implications for governance, economic policy and performance / Richard M. Auty -- Credit co-operatives in locally financed economic development : using energy efficiency as a lever / Robert J. McIntyre -- Development through globalization? / Deepak Nayyar -- Do we need a 'new great transformation'? : is one likely? / Frances Stewart -- Absorptive capacity and achieving the MDGs / François Bourguignon and Mark Sundberg -- Applying behavioural economics to international development policy / C. Leigh Anderson and Kostas Stamoulis -- The human dimensions of the global development process in the early part of the twenty-first century : critical trends and new challenges / Mihály Simai -- Development questions for 25 years / Lance Taylor.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Boxes; List of Figures; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Legacy - Lal Jayawardena; Part I: Development Economics in Retrospect; Part II: Inequality and Conflict; Part III: Human Development and Wellbeing; Part IV: Globalization; Part V: Development Finance; Part VI: Growth and Poverty; Part VII: Development Strategies; Part VIII: Development Economics in Prospect; Index of Names; Subject Index
Description / Table of Contents:
The evolution of the development doctrine, 1950-2005 / Erik ThorbeckeTurning points in development thinking and practice / Louis Emmerij -- From Seers to Sen : the meaning of economic development / E. Wayne Nafziger -- Inequality in historical perspective / Richard Jolly -- Health improvements and health inequality during the last 40 years / Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Leonardo Menchini -- Inequality and corruption / Eric M. Uslaner -- Indivisibility, fairness, farsightedness and their implications for security / S. Mansoob Murshed -- Violence in peace : understanding increased violence in early post-conflict transitions and its implications for development / Marcia Byrom Hartwell -- International convergence or higher inequality in human development? Evidence for 1975-2002 / Farhad Noorbakhsh -- Investing in health for economic development : the case of Mexico / Nora Lustig -- A wider approach to aid effectiveness : correlated impacts on health, wealth, fertility and education / David Fielding, Mark McGillivray and Sebastian Torres -- Is social capital part of the institutions continuum and is it a deep determinant of development? / Stephen Knowles -- Stormy days on an open field : asymmetries in the global economy / Nancy Birdsall -- A quest for pro-poor globalization / Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke -- International migration in an era of globalization : has it come out of its marginality? / Arjan de Haan -- International risk tolerance, capital market failure and capital flows to emerging markets / Valpy FitzGerald -- Prolonged use and conditionality failure : investigating IMF responsibility / Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani -- International finance and the developing world : the next 20 years / Tony Addison -- Gender and growth in sub-Saharan Africa : issues and evidence / Mark Blackden ... [et al.] -- Decomposing growth : do low-income and HIPCs differ from high-income countries? / Pertti Haaparanta and Heli Virta -- Evaluating targeting efficiency of government programmes : international comparisons / Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son -- Innovations, high-tech trade and industrial development : theory, evidence and policy / Lakhwinder Singh -- Manufacturing, services and premature deindustrialization in developing countries : a Kaldorian analysis / Sukti Dasgupta and Ajit Singh -- Why have all development strategies failed in Latin America? / Guillermo Rozenwurcel -- Development in Chile 1990-2005 : lessons from a positive experience / Alvaro García Hurtado -- Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa : learning from successes and failures / Annettes Zoomers -- Development strategy, viability and economic institutions : the case of China / Justin Yifu Lin ... [et al.] -- Institutions, policies and economic development / Grzegorz W. Kolodko -- Patterns of rent extraction and deployment in developing countries : implications for governance, economic policy and performance / Richard M. Auty -- Credit co-operatives in locally financed economic development : using energy efficiency as a lever / Robert J. McIntyre -- Development through globalization? / Deepak Nayyar -- Do we need a 'new great transformation'? : is one likely? / Frances Stewart -- Absorptive capacity and achieving the MDGs / François Bourguignon and Mark Sundberg -- Applying behavioural economics to international development policy / C. Leigh Anderson and Kostas Stamoulis -- The human dimensions of the global development process in the early part of the twenty-first century : critical trends and new challenges / Mihály Simai -- Development questions for 25 years / Lance Taylor.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Selected papers from a June 17-18, 2005 conference held in Helsinki on the occasion of the jubilee anniversary of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and dedicated to the memory of Lal Jayawardena, the first Director of UNU-WIDER
DOI:
10.1057/9780230801462
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