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Title Handbook of development economics / edited by Hollis Chenery and T.N. Srinivasan
Published Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1988-1995
Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland, 1988-2010
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co
©1988-2010

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Description 5 volumes in 6 : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Handbooks in economics ; 9
Handbooks in economics ; bk. 9
Contents v. 1. The concept of development / Amartya Sen -- The roots of development theory / W. Arthur Lewis -- Alternative approaches to development economics / Pranab Bardhan -- Analytics of development : dualism / Gustav Ranis -- Economic organization, information, and development / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Long-run income distribution and growth / Lance Taylor and Persio Arida -- Patterns of structural change / Moshe Syrquin -- The agricultural transformation / C. Peter Timmer -- Industrialization and trade / Howard Pack -- Saving and development / Mark Gersovitz -- Migration and urbanization / Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Economic approaches to population growth / Nancy Birdsall -- Education investments and returns / T. Paul Schultz -- Health and nutrition / Jere R. Behrman and Anil B. Deolalikar -- Labor markets in low-income countries / Mark R. Rosenzweig -- Credit markets and interlinked transactions / Clive Bell
v. 2. Short-run macroeconomics / Persio Arida and Lance Taylor -- Multisectoral models / Sherman Robinson -- Income distribution and development / Irma Adelman and Sherman Robinson -- Taxation for developing countries / Nicholas Stern and Ehtisham Ahmad -- Project evaluation in theory and practice / Lyn Squire-- International cooperation / Paul Streeten -- Trade and development / Christopher Bliss -- Alternative perspectives on trade and development / David Evans -- Foreign public capital flows / Jonathan Eaton -- Foreign private capital flows / Eliana A. Cardoso and Rudiger Dornbusch -- Transnational corporations and direct foreign investment / Gerald Helleiner -- Disequilibrium and structural adjustment / Sebastian Edwards and Sweder van Wijnbergen -- Primary exporting countries / Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. -- Import substitution as a development strategy / Henry Bruton -- Outward orientation / Bela Balassa -- Large countries : the influence of size / Dwight H. Perkins and Moshe Syrquin
v. 3A. Data and econometric tools for development analysis / Angus Deaton -- Human resources : empirical modeling of household and family decisions / John Strauss and Duncan Thomas -- Applied general equilibrium models for policy analysis / Jan Willem Gunning and Michiel Keyzer -- Savings, credit and insurance / Timothy Besley -- Technological change and technology strategy / Robert E. Evenson and Larry E. Westphal -- Institutions and economic development / Justin Yifu Lin and Jeffrey B. Nugent -- Poverty, institutions, and the environmental-resources base / Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Goran Mäler
v. 3B. Policy lessons from development experience since the second world war / Anne Krueger -- Poverty and policy / Michael Lipton and Martin Ravallion -- Power, distortions, revolt and reform in agricultural land relations / Hans P. Binswanger, Klaus Deininger and Gershon Feder -- Human and physical infrastructure : investment and pricing policies in developing countries / Emmanuel Jimenez -- Structural adjustment, stabilization and policy reform : domestic and international finance / Vittorio Corbo and Stanley Fischer -- Trade and industrial policy reform / Dani Rodrik -- The contributions of endogenous growth theory to the analysis of development problems : an assessment / Pranab Bardhan
v. 4. Economic development and the decline of agricultural employment / Andrew D. foster and Mark Rosenzweig -- Information networks in dynamic Agrarian economies / Kaivan Munshi -- Public action for public goods / Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan -- Understanding political corruption in low income countries / Rohini Pande -- Household formation and marriage markets in rural areas / Marcel Fafchamps and Agnes R. Quisumbing -- Population policies, fertility, women's human capital, and child quality / T. Paul Schultz -- Health economics for low-income countries / Germano Mwabu -- Health over the life course / John Strauss and Duncan Thomas -- Schooling in developing countries : the roles of supply, demand and government policy / Peter F. Orazem and Elizabeth M. King -- The impact of child health and nutrition on education in less developed countries / Paul Glewwe and Edward A Miguel -- Child labor / Eric V. Edmonds -- Extended family and kinship networks : economic insights and evolutionary directions / Donald Cox and Marcel Fafchamps -- Evaluating anti-poverty programs / Martin Ravallion -- Evaluating social programs with endogenous program placement and selection of the treated / Petra E. Todd -- Using randomization in development economics research : a toolkit / Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer -- Evaluating conditional schooling and health programs / Susan W. Parker, Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel
Analysis Economic conditions
Economic development
International comparisons
International cooperation
Macroeconomic policy
Mathematical models
Overseas item
Trade
Notes Vol. 3 edited by Jere Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan
Vol. 4 edited by T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss
Vol. 5 edited by Dani Rodrik, Mark R. Rosenzweig
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Credits Vol. 3 edited by Jere Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan
Vol. 5 edited by Dani Rodrik and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Notes Also available online
Subject Development economics.
Economic development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Economic development.
Public goods.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Author Behrman, Jere Richard, 1940-
Chenery, Hollis Burnley.
Rodrik, Dani.
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard, 1947-
Schultz, T. Paul.
Srinivasan, T. N., 1933-
Strauss, John, 1951-
MyiLibrary.
LC no. 87034960
ISSN 1573-4471
ISBN 0444529446
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Other Titles Development economics