Advancing development : core themes in global economics /
Advancing development : core themes in global economics /
edited by George Mavrotas and Anthony Shorrocks ; foreword by Amartya Sen.
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan in association with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007.
- xxxviii, 803 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Studies in development economics and policy .
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The evolution of the development doctrine, 1950-2005 / Turning points in development thinking and practice / From Seers to Sen : the meaning of economic development / Inequality in historical perspective / Health improvements and health inequality during the last 40 years / Inequality and corruption / Indivisibility, fairness, farsightedness and their implications for security / Violence in peace : understanding increased violence in early post-conflict transitions and its implications for development / International convergence or higher inequality in human development? : evidence for 1975-2002 / Investing in health for economic development : the case of Mexico / A wider approach to aid effectiveness : correlated impacts on health, wealth, fertility and education / Is social capital part of the institutions continuum and is it a deep determinant of development? / Stormy days on an open field : asymmetries in the global economy / A quest for pro-poor globalization / International migration in an era of globalization : has it come out of its marginality? / International risk tolerance, capital market failure and capital flows to emerging markets / Prolonged use and conditionality failure : investigating IMF responsibility / International finance and the developing world : the next 20 years / Gender and growth in sub-Saharan Africa : issues and evidence / Decomposing growth : do low-income and HIPCs differ from high-income countries? / Evaluating targeting efficiency of government programmes : international comparisons / Innovations, high-tech trade and industrial development : theory, evidence and policy / Manufacturing, services and premature deindustrialization in developing countries : a Kaldorian analysis / Why have all development strategies failed in Latin America? / Development in Chile 1990-2005 : lessons from a positive experience / Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa : learning from successes and failures / Development strategy, viability and economic institutions : the case of China / Institutions, policies and economic development / Patterns of rent extraction and deployment in developing countries : implications for governance, economic policy and performance / Credit co-operatives in locally financed economic development : using energy efficiency as a lever / Development through globalization? / Do we need a 'new great transformation'? : is one likely? / Absorptive capacity and achieving the MDGs / Applying behavioural economics to international development policy / The human dimensions of the global development process in the early part of the twenty-first century : critical trends and new challenges / Development questions for 25 years / Erik Thorbecke -- Louis Emmerij -- E. Wayne Nafziger -- Richard Jolly -- Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Leonardo Menchini -- Eric M. Uslaner -- S. Mansoob Murshed -- Marcia Byrom Hartwell -- Farhad Noorbakhsh -- Nora Lustig -- David Fielding, Mark McGillivray and Sebastian Torres -- Stephen Knowles -- Nancy Birdsall -- Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke -- Arjan de Haan -- Valpy FitzGerald -- Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani -- Tony Addison -- Mark Blackden ... [et al.] -- Pertti Haaparanta and Heli Virta -- Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son -- Lakhwinder Singh -- Sukti Dasgupta and Ajit Singh -- Guillermo Rozenwurcel -- âAlvaro Garcâia Hurtado -- Annelies Zoomers -- Justin Yifu Lin ... [et al.] -- Grzegorz W. Kolodko -- Richard M. Auty -- Robert J. McIntyre -- Deepak Nayyar -- Frances Stewart -- Francois Bourguignon and Mark Sundberg -- C. Leigh Anderson and Kostas Stamoulis -- Mihâaly Simai -- Lance Taylor.
0230019048 (pbk.) 9780230019041 (pbk.)
2006048540
World Institute for Development Economics Research--Congresses.
Development economics--Congresses.
Economic development--Congresses.
WIDER Development economics research
HD 73 / A244a 2007
338.9
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The evolution of the development doctrine, 1950-2005 / Turning points in development thinking and practice / From Seers to Sen : the meaning of economic development / Inequality in historical perspective / Health improvements and health inequality during the last 40 years / Inequality and corruption / Indivisibility, fairness, farsightedness and their implications for security / Violence in peace : understanding increased violence in early post-conflict transitions and its implications for development / International convergence or higher inequality in human development? : evidence for 1975-2002 / Investing in health for economic development : the case of Mexico / A wider approach to aid effectiveness : correlated impacts on health, wealth, fertility and education / Is social capital part of the institutions continuum and is it a deep determinant of development? / Stormy days on an open field : asymmetries in the global economy / A quest for pro-poor globalization / International migration in an era of globalization : has it come out of its marginality? / International risk tolerance, capital market failure and capital flows to emerging markets / Prolonged use and conditionality failure : investigating IMF responsibility / International finance and the developing world : the next 20 years / Gender and growth in sub-Saharan Africa : issues and evidence / Decomposing growth : do low-income and HIPCs differ from high-income countries? / Evaluating targeting efficiency of government programmes : international comparisons / Innovations, high-tech trade and industrial development : theory, evidence and policy / Manufacturing, services and premature deindustrialization in developing countries : a Kaldorian analysis / Why have all development strategies failed in Latin America? / Development in Chile 1990-2005 : lessons from a positive experience / Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa : learning from successes and failures / Development strategy, viability and economic institutions : the case of China / Institutions, policies and economic development / Patterns of rent extraction and deployment in developing countries : implications for governance, economic policy and performance / Credit co-operatives in locally financed economic development : using energy efficiency as a lever / Development through globalization? / Do we need a 'new great transformation'? : is one likely? / Absorptive capacity and achieving the MDGs / Applying behavioural economics to international development policy / The human dimensions of the global development process in the early part of the twenty-first century : critical trends and new challenges / Development questions for 25 years / Erik Thorbecke -- Louis Emmerij -- E. Wayne Nafziger -- Richard Jolly -- Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Leonardo Menchini -- Eric M. Uslaner -- S. Mansoob Murshed -- Marcia Byrom Hartwell -- Farhad Noorbakhsh -- Nora Lustig -- David Fielding, Mark McGillivray and Sebastian Torres -- Stephen Knowles -- Nancy Birdsall -- Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke -- Arjan de Haan -- Valpy FitzGerald -- Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani -- Tony Addison -- Mark Blackden ... [et al.] -- Pertti Haaparanta and Heli Virta -- Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son -- Lakhwinder Singh -- Sukti Dasgupta and Ajit Singh -- Guillermo Rozenwurcel -- âAlvaro Garcâia Hurtado -- Annelies Zoomers -- Justin Yifu Lin ... [et al.] -- Grzegorz W. Kolodko -- Richard M. Auty -- Robert J. McIntyre -- Deepak Nayyar -- Frances Stewart -- Francois Bourguignon and Mark Sundberg -- C. Leigh Anderson and Kostas Stamoulis -- Mihâaly Simai -- Lance Taylor.
0230019048 (pbk.) 9780230019041 (pbk.)
2006048540
World Institute for Development Economics Research--Congresses.
Development economics--Congresses.
Economic development--Congresses.
WIDER Development economics research
HD 73 / A244a 2007
338.9