TY - BOOK AU - Islam, Nurul TI - Exploration in development issues: selected articles of Nurul Islam SN - 9780754615958 U1 - 338.9 PY - 2003/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Development economics KW - Economic assistance KW - Economic development KW - Economic policy KW - Developing countries N1 - Development of the labour surplus economy -- Concepts and measurement of unemployment and underemployment in developing economies -- External economies and the doctrine of balanced growth -- The relevance of development models to planning -- Development planning and plan implementation: lessons of experience -- National import substitution and inward looking strategies: policies of less developed countries -- Learning from East Asia: lessons for South Asia--an epilogue -- Reflections on development perspectives since the 1950s -- Lessons of experience: development policy and practice -- Green revolution in Asia: a few aspects and some lessons -- Overview to Population and food in the early twenty-first century -- Asia's food and agriculture: future perspectives and policy influences -- Comments on 'the issue of sustainability in Third World food production' -- Linkages between agriculture and the overall economy. Government: issues in policy reform -- Tensions between economics and politics in dealing with agriculture -- Commercialization of agriculture and food security: development strategy and trade policy issues -- Agricultural growth, technological progress and rural poverty -- Undernutrition and poverty: magnitude, pattern and measures for alleviation -- Hunger, famines and poverty: a few considerations of political economy -- World food security: national and international measures for stabilization of supplies -- Instability in world food prices in the post-Uruguay round situation: prospects and policy issues -- Comparative costs, factor proportions and industrial efficiency in Pakistan -- Export incentive and effective subsidy in Pakistan: an evaluation -- The new protectionism and the nature of world trade: comments. Recent trends in the theory of international investment -- International economic assistance in the 1970s--a critique of partners in development -- Foreign assistance and economic development: the case of Pakistan -- Economic policy reforms and the IMF: Bangladesh experience in the early 1970s -- Progress of the GATT negotiations on agriculture and developing countries: options and strategies -- Is agricultural trade liberalization bad for environment? ER -