TY - BOOK AU - Mavrotas,George AU - Shorrocks,Anthony F. ED - World Institute for Development Economics Research. TI - Advancing development: core themes in global economics SN - 0230019048 (pbk.) AV - HD 73 A244a 2007 U1 - 338.9 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke [England], New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan in association with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research KW - World Institute for Development Economics Research KW - Congresses KW - Development economics KW - Economic development KW - WIDER KW - Development economics research N1 - 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; Erik Thorbecke --; Turning 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; âAlvaro Garcâia Hurtado --; Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa : learning from successes and failures; Annelies 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; Francois 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; Mihâaly Simai --; Development questions for 25 years; Lance Taylor UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006048540-t.html ER -