| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 943 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; International Development Ideas, Experience, and Prospects; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Pedagogic Element; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; The State of Development Thought; Why This Volume?; The Evolution of Development Thought; Structure of the Volume; Past, Present, and Future; Notes; References; PART 1; CRITICAL ISSUES; Chapter 1: The Study of Development; Introduction; Origins of the Study of Development; General Versus Specific Knowledge; "Development" Versus the Problems of Underdevelopment |
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Disciplinarity Versus Inter- (Multi- )disciplinarityConclusion; Note; References; Chapter 2: Development Theories; Introduction: What Development Theories are About; The Roots of Development Theories; State First: Structuralist Theories Dominant; Criticism from the Left and the Faltering of Structuralism; Market First: Neo-liberalism Ascendant; From Crisis in Development Theory to a New Synthesis?; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Fifty Years of Growth Economics; Introduction; Industrialization and Growth: The New Normal; Growth as a Belief System |
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Growth: Supply Push and Demand PulledThe Reign of Capital followed by Total Factor Productivity; From Solow to Endogenous Growth; Introducing Demand; Policies for Growth: A Small Pot of Gold; King Capital; Human Capital, the Knowledge Producer; Innovation Systems; Demand Management; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Development Strategy: Balancing Market and Government Failure; Introduction; The Evolution of Development Thinking and Outcomes Since 1945; Development Thinking Pre-1945; A Global Perspective on the Balance between Market and State; Beyond State and Market |
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Politics and PolicyLooking Ahead: Markets and State in the Global and the Local Context; The Nation-state at the Confluence of the Global and Local; International Public Goods; Sub-national Pockets of Poverty; Conclusion: Revolutions or Evolution in Development Thinking?; Note; References; Chapter 5: Poverty in Development Thought: Symptom or Cause; Introduction; Poverty in Social Thought; Positions and Concepts; A Brief History of Poverty in Development Thought and Practice; The Geography of Poverty; Synthesis or Uneasy Compromise?; Notes; References |
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Chapter 6: Inequality and Development: an OverviewIntroduction; Defining Inequality; Inequality among Whom; Inequality in What Space; Inequality over What Time; Is High and Growing Inequality Undesirable?; Intrinsic Reasons; Instrumental Reasons; Measuring Inequality; Vertical Inequality; Horizontal Inequality; Multidimensionality Issues; Inequality and Development: Historical Trends; Does the Kuznets Curve Exist, and What Explains it?; What Trends do the Data Suggest?; Policies Toward Inequality; Vertical Inequality; Horizontal Inequality; Political Economy of Policy Making; Conclusion |
| Summary |
This work maps the concepts and theories currently used to explain development, where they came from, and where they may be going. It shows how real-life experiences of different countries and organisations have been inspired by, and contributed to, thinking on development |
| Notes |
"The research presented in this publication is the result of a project supported by Canada's International Development Research Centre"--Page xiii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Economic development.
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Development economics.
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economic development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Development economics
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Economic development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Currie-Alder, Bruce, 1974- editor.
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Kanbur, S. M. Ravi, 1954- editor.
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Malone, David, 1954- editor.
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Rohinton, Medhora, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191651687 |
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0191651680 |
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1306637740 |
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9781306637749 |
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9780191751127 |
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019175112X |
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0199671664 |
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9780199671663 |
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