Leading issues in economic development/
edited by Gerald M. Meier and James E. Rauch
- 8th. ed.
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 650 p.
I. Introduction -- Overview -- I.A. Measuring development -- Note I.A.1. The evolution of measures of development -- Selection I.A.1. Why are services cheaper in the poor countries? -- Comment I.A.1. The productivity and factor proportions explanations again -- Selection I.A.2. Income poverty -- Comment I.A.2. Capabilities and entitlements -- Note I.A.2. Other important differences between developed and less developed countries -- I.B. Economic performance of less developed countries : the recent past -- Selection I.B.1. The lost decades : developing countries' stagnation in spite of policy reform 1980-1998 -- Note I.B.1. No easy answers, yet all is not lost -- Selection I.B.2. How reform worked in China -- Selection I.B.3. India since independence -- Selection I.B.4. The impact of the economic reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Selection I.B.5. Why has Africa grown slowly? -- I.C. The discipline of development economics -- Note I.C.1. Evolution of development economics -- Comment I.C.1. Classical growth theory -- Comment I.C.2. Development economics as a special subject -- Note I.C.2. New endogenous growth theory. II. Historical perspective -- Overview : the division of the world -- Selection II. 1. The spread of economic growth to the Third World :1850-1980 -- Comment II. 1. State-owned enterprises and privatization -- Selection II. 2. The division of the world and the factoral terms of trade -- Note II. 1. Why not export first? -- Note II. 2. The Lewis model of the world economy -- Selection II. 3. Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and economic growth -- Comment II. 2. Income elasticity of demand for food in the Matsuyama model -- Selection II. 4. Income distribution, market size, and industrialization -- Comment II. 3. Minimum market size in the Murphy-Shleifer-Vishny model -- Selection II. 5. Factor endowments, inequality, and paths of development among new world economies -- Selection II. 6. Divergence, big time -- Comment II. 4. Will the poor countries catch up? III. International trade and technology transfer -- Overview -- III. A. Trade -- Note III. A.1. Natural resource abundance, international trade, and economic growth -- Note III. A.2. Import-substituting industrialization and the infant-industry argument -- Selection III. A.1. Typology in development theory : retrospective and prospects -- Selection III. A.2. An exposition and exploration of Krueger's trade model -- Comment III. A.1. Moving up the ladder and changes in relative costs of factors of production -- Selection III. A.3. The process of industrial development and alternative development strategies -- Selection III. A.4. Getting interventions right : how South Korea and Taiwan grew rich -- Note III. A.3. Tradeability of intermediate goods, linkages, and bottlenecks -- III. B. Foreign contact and technology transfer -- Note III. B.1. Learning in international production networks -- Selection III. B.1. Technology gaps between industrial and developing countries : are there dividends for latecomers? -- Selection III. B.2. The potential benefits of FDI for less developed countries -- Note III. B.2. Trade as enemy, handmaiden, and engine of growth. IV. Human resources -- Overview -- IV. A. Education -- Note IV. A.1. Three views of the contribution of education to economic growth -- Selection IV. A.1. Economic impact of education -- Comment IV. A.1. Updated estimates of returns to investment in education -- Comment IV. A.2. Ability differences, spillovers, and the returns to investment in education -- Selection IV. A.2. Creating human capital -- Selection IV. A.3. Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia -- Selection IV. A.4. Interpreting recent research on schooling in developing countries -- Selection IV. A.5. School inputs and educational outcomes in South Africa -- IV. B. Health -- Selection IV. B.1. Pharmaceuticals and the developing world -- Selection IV. B.2. Identifying impacts of intestinal worms on health in the presence of treatment externalities -- Selection IV. B.3. Confronting AIDS -- IV. C. Population -- Note IV. C.1. The size of the world's population and the size of the average family -- Selection IV. C.1. Economic approaches to population growth -- Selection IV. C.2. Demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa -- Comment IV. C.1. The "demographic dividend" -- IV. D. Gender and development -- Selection IV. D.1. Gender inequality at the start of the 21st century -- Selection IV. D.2. Missing women -- Selection IV. D.3. Women as policy makers. V. Investment and finance -- Overview : investment and finance : the engines of growth? -- Note V.1. The AK model -- Selection V.1. Is fixed investment the key to economic growth? -- Selection V.2. Financial development and economic growth -- Selection V.3. Taming international capital flows -- Selection V.4. Can foreign aid buy growth? -- Selection V.5. The microfinance promise. VI. Urbanization and the informal sector -- Overview -- VI. A. Urban growth and infrastructure -- Selection VI. A.1. Urban growth in developing countries : a demographic reappraisal -- Selection VI. A.2. Urban primacy, external costs, and quality of life -- Selection VI. A.3. The impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality in Argentina -- VI. B. Rural-urban migration and the informal sector -- Selection VI. B.1. Economic development with unlimited supplies of labor -- Selection VI. B.2. A model of labor migration and urban unemployment in less developed countries -- Note VI. B.1. The Lewis versus the Harris-Todaro view of underemployment in less developed countries -- Selection VI. B.3. Wage spillover and unemployment in a wage-gap economy : the Jamaican case -- Note VI. B.2. Econometric studies of migration -- Selection VI. B.4. Labour market modelling and the urban informal sector : theory and evidence -- Selection VI. B.5. The role of the informal sector in the migration process : a test of probabilistic migration models and labour market segmentation for India. VII. Agriculture -- Overview -- VII. A. Designing an agricultural strategy -- Selection VII. A.1. Agriculture, climate, and technology : why are the Tropics falling behind? -- Note VII. A.1. Food, hunger, famine -- Selection VII. A.2. Agricultural development strategies -- Note VII. A.2. Induced technical and institutional change -- Comment VII. A.1. The green revolution -- Selection VII. A.3. Some theoretical aspects of agricultural policies -- Selection VII. A.4. Rural infrastructure -- Selection VII. A.5. Prospects and strategies for land reform -- VII. B. Microeconomics of the rural sector -- Selection VII. B.1. The new development economics -- Selection VII. B.2. Contractual arrangements, employment, and wages in rural labor markets : a critical review -- Selection VII. B.3. The new institutional economics and development theory -- Selection VII. B.4. Rural credit markets and institutions in developing countries : lessons fro policy analysis from practice and modern theory -- Selection VII. B.5. A survey of agricultural household models : recent findings and policy implications -- Comment VII. B.1. Supply functions and price responsiveness. VIII. Income distribution -- Overview -- Note VIII. 1. Measurement of income inequality -- VIII. A. The impact of development on income distribution -- Selection VIII. A.1. Economic growth and income inequality -- Selection VIII. A.2. A note on the U hypothesis relating income inequality and economic development -- Selection VIII. A.3. Economic development, urban underemployment, and income inequality -- Comment VIII. A.1. The informal sector, intraurban inequality, and the inverted U -- Selection VIII. A.4. Explaining inequality the world round : cohort size, Kuznets curves, and openness -- Comment VIII. A.2. Evidence for the inverted U across countries versus within countries over time -- VIII. B. The impact of income distribution on development -- Selection VIII. B.1. The middle class consensus and economic development -- Selection VIII. B.2. Income distribution, political instability, and investment -- VIII. C. Case studies -- Selection VIII. C.1. Rising inequality in China, 1981-1995 -- Selection VIII. C.2. Falling inequality in rural Indonesia, 1978-1993. IX. Political economy -- Overview -- IX. A. The (proper) role of the state in less developed countries -- Selection IX. A.1 Public policy and the economics of development -- Comment IX. A.1. Development planning -- Comment IX. A.2. Governing the market -- IX. B. Rent seeking and government failure -- Note IX. B.1. What are rents? -- Selection IX. B.1. The political economy of the rent-seeking society -- Comment IX. B.1. Complete rent dissipation through competitive rent seeking in the Harris-Todaro model -- Comment IX. B.2. The relationship between rent seeking and corruption -- Selection IX. B.2. The regulation of entry -- Selection IX. B.3. Africa's growth tragedy : policies and ethnic divisions -- IX. C. State capacity -- Selection IX. C.1. Institutions and economic performance : cross-country tests using alternative institutional measures -- Selection IX. C.2. The state as problem and solution : predation, embedded autonomy, and structural change -- Selection IX. C.3. Taking trade policy seriously : export subsidization as a case study in policy effectiveness -- Selection IX. C.4. Bureaucratic structure and bureaucratic performance in less developed countries. X. Development and the environment -- Overview : environmental problems in less versus more developed countries -- Selection X.1. Development and the environment -- Comment X.1. The "environmental Kuznets curve" -- Selection X.2. North-South trade and the global environment -- Comment X.2. Empirical studies of the impact of international trade on the environment in less developed countries -- Selection X.3. Deforestation and the rule of law in a cross section of countries -- Selection X.4. Determinants of pollution abatement in developing countries : evidence from South and Southeast Asia -- Selection X.5. Genuine savings rates in developing countries -- Appendix. How to read a regression table