Development economics / (Record no. 8986)
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| Personal name | Raj, D. |
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| Title | Development economics / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Debraj Ray. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Jersey : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University Press , |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1998. |
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| Extent | 700 p. : |
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| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Summary, etc | Contents<br/>Preface<br/>Chapter 1: Introduction<br/>Chapter 2: Economic Development: Overview<br/>2.1. Introduction<br/>2.2. Income and growth<br/>2.2.1. Measurement issues<br/>2.2.2. Historical experience<br/>2.3. Income distribution in developing countries<br/>2.4. The many faces of underdevelopment<br/>2.4.1. Human development<br/>2.4.2. An index of human development<br/>2.4.3. Per capita income and human development<br/>2.5. Some structural features<br/>2.5.1. Demographic characteristics<br/>2.5.2. Occupational and production structure<br/>2.5.3. Rapid rural–urban migration<br/>2.5.4. International trade<br/>2.6. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 3: Economic Growth<br/>3.1. Introduction<br/>3.2. Modern economic growth: Basic features<br/>3.3. Theories of economic growth<br/>3.3.1. The Harrod–Domar model<br/>3.3.2. Beyond Harrod–Domar: Other considerations<br/>3.3.3. The Solow model<br/>3.4. Technical progress<br/>3.5. Convergence?<br/>3.5.1. Introduction<br/>3.5.2. Unconditional convergence<br/>3.5.3. Unconditional convergence: Evidence or lack thereof<br/>3.5.4. Unconditional convergence: A summary<br/>3.5.5. Conditional convergence<br/>3.5.6. Reexamining the data<br/>3.6. Summary<br/>Appendix<br/>3.A.1. The Harrod–Domar equations<br/>3.A.2. Production functions and per capita magnitudes<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 4: The New Growth Theories<br/>4.1. Introduction<br/>4.2. Human capital and growth<br/>4.3. Another look at conditional convergence<br/>4.4. Technical progress again<br/>4.4.1. Introduction<br/>4.4.2. Technological progress and human decisions<br/>4.4.3. A model of deliberate technical progress<br/>4.4.4. Externalities, technical progress, and growth<br/>4.4.5. Total factor productivity<br/>4.5. Total factor productivity and the East Asian miracle<br/>4.6. Summary<br/>Appendix: Human capital and growth<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 5: History, Expectations, and Development<br/>5.1. Introduction<br/>5.2. Complementarities<br/>5.2.1. Introduction: QWERTY<br/>5.2.2. Coordination failure<br/>5.2.3. Linkages and policy<br/>5.2.4. History versus expectations<br/>5.3. Increasing returns<br/>5.3.1. Introduction<br/>5.3.2. Increasing returns and entry into markets<br/>5.3.3. Increasing returns and market size: Interaction<br/>5.4. Competition, multiplicity, and international trade<br/>5.5. Other roles for history<br/>5.5.1. Social norms<br/>5.5.2. The status quo<br/>5.6. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 6: Economic Inequality<br/>6.1. Introduction<br/>6.2. What is economic inequality?<br/>6.2.1. The context<br/>6.2.2. Economic inequality: Preliminary observations<br/>6.3. Measuring economic inequality<br/>6.3.1. Introduction<br/>6.3.2. Four criteria for inequality measurement<br/>6.3.3. The Lorenz curve<br/>6.3.4. Complete measures of inequality<br/>6.4. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 7: Inequality and Development: Interconnections<br/>7.1. Introduction<br/>7.2. Inequality, income, and growth<br/>7.2.1. The inverted-U hypothesis<br/>7.2.2. Testing the inverted-U hypothesis<br/>7.2.3. Income and inequality: Uneven and compensatory changes<br/>7.2.4. Inequality, savings, income, and growth<br/>7.2.5. Inequality, political redistribution, and growth<br/>7.2.6. Inequality and growth: Evidence<br/>7.2.7. Inequality and demand composition<br/>7.2.8. Inequality, capital markets, and development<br/>7.2.9. Inequality and development: Human capital<br/>7.3. Summary<br/>Appendix: Multiple steady states with imperfect capital markets<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 8: Poverty and Undernutrition<br/>8.1. Introduction<br/>8.2. Poverty: First principles<br/>8.2.1. Conceptual issues<br/>8.2.2. Poverty measures<br/>8.3. Poverty: Empirical observations<br/>8.3.1. Demographic features<br/>8.3.2. Rural and urban poverty<br/>8.3.3. Assets<br/>8.3.4. Nutrition<br/>8.4. The functional impact of poverty<br/>8.4.1. Poverty, credit, and insurance<br/>8.4.2. Poverty, nutrition, and labor markets<br/>8.4.3. Poverty and the household<br/>8.5. Summary<br/>Appendix: More on poverty measures<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 9: Population Growth and Economic Development<br/>9.1. Introduction<br/>9.2. Population: Some basic concepts<br/>9.2.1. Birth and death rates<br/>9.2.2. Age distributions<br/>9.3. From economic development to population growth<br/>9.3.1. The demographic transition<br/>9.3.2. Historical trends in developed and developing countries<br/>9.3.3. The adjustment of birth rates<br/>9.3.4. Is fertility too high?<br/>9.4. From population growth to economic development<br/>9.4.1. Some negative effects<br/>9.4.2. Some positive effects<br/>9.5. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 10: Rural and Urban<br/>10.1. Overview<br/>10.1.1. The structural viewpoint<br/>10.1.2. Formal and informal urban sectors<br/>10.1.3. Agriculture<br/>10.1.4. The ICRISAT villages<br/>10.2. Rural–urban interaction<br/>10.2.1. Two fundamental resource flows<br/>10.2.2. The Lewis model<br/>10.3. Rural–urban migration<br/>10.3.1. Introduction<br/>10.3.2. The basic model<br/>10.3.3. Floors on formal wages and the Harris–Todaro equilibrium<br/>10.3.4. Government policy<br/>10.3.5. Comments and extensions<br/>10.4. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 11: Markets in Agriculture: An Introduction<br/>11.1. Introduction<br/>11.2. Some examples<br/>11.3. Land, labor, capital, and credit<br/>11.3.1. Land and labor<br/>11.3.2. Capital and credit<br/>Chapter 12: Land<br/>12.1. Introduction<br/>12.2. Ownership and tenancy<br/>12.3. Land rental contracts<br/>12.3.1. Contractual forms<br/>12.3.2. Contracts and incentives<br/>12.3.3. Risk, tenancy, and sharecropping<br/>12.3.4. Forms of tenancy: Other considerations<br/>12.3.5. Land contracts, eviction, and use rights<br/>12.4. Land ownership<br/>12.4.1. A brief history of land inequality<br/>12.4.2. Land size and productivity: Concepts<br/>12.4.3. Land size and productivity: Empirical evidence<br/>12.4.4. Land sales<br/>12.4.5. Land reform<br/>12.5. Summary<br/>Appendix 1: Principal–agent theory and applications<br/>12.A.1. Risk, moral hazard, and the agency problem<br/>12.A.2. Tenancy contracts revisited<br/>Appendix 2: Screening and sharecropping<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 13: Labor<br/>13.1. Introduction<br/>13.2. Labor categories<br/>13.3. A familiar model<br/>13.4. Poverty nutrition, and labor markets<br/>13.4.1. The basic model<br/>13.4.2. Nutrition, time, and casual labor markets<br/>13.4.3. A model of nutritional status<br/>13.5. Permanent labor markets<br/>13.5.1. Types of permanent labor<br/>13.5.2. Why study permanent labor?<br/>13.5.3. Permanent labor: Nonmonitored tasks<br/>13.5.4. Permanent labor: Casual tasks<br/>13.6. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 14: Credit<br/>14.1. Introduction<br/>14.1.1. The limits to credit and insurance<br/>14.1.2. Sources of demand for credit<br/>14.2. Rural credit markets<br/>14.2.1. Who provides rural credit?<br/>14.2.2. Some characteristics of rural credit markets<br/>14.3. Theories of informal credit markets<br/>14.3.1. Lender’s monopoly<br/>14.3.2. The lender’s risk hypothesis<br/>14.3.3. Default and fixed-capital loans<br/>14.3.4. Default and collateral<br/>14.3.5. Default and credit rationing<br/>14.3.6. Informational asymmetries and credit rationing<br/>14.3.7. Default and enforcement<br/>14.4. Interlinked transactions<br/>14.4.1. Hidden interest<br/>14.4.2. Interlinkages and information<br/>14.4.3. Interlinkages and enforcement<br/>14.4.4. Interlinkages and creation of efficient surplus<br/>14.5. Alternative credit policies<br/>14.5.1. Vertical formal–informal links<br/>14.5.2. Microfinance<br/>14.6. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 15: Insurance<br/>15.1. Basic concepts<br/>15.2. The perfect insurance model<br/>15.2.1. Theory<br/>15.2.2. Testing the theory<br/>15.3. Limits to insurance: Information<br/>15.3.1. Limited information about the final outcome<br/>15.3.2. Limited information about what led to the outcome<br/>15.4. Limits to insurance: Enforcement<br/>15.4.1. Enforcement-based limits to perfect insurance<br/>15.4.2. Enforcement and imperfect insurance<br/>15.5. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 16: International Trade<br/>16.1. World trading patterns<br/>16.2. Comparative advantage<br/>16.3. Sources of comparative advantage<br/>16.3.1. Technology<br/>16.3.2. Factor endowments<br/>16.3.3. Preferences<br/>16.3.4. Economies of scale<br/>16.4. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 17: Trade Policy<br/>17.1. Gains from trade?<br/>17.1.1. Overall gains and distributive effects<br/>17.1.2. Overall losses from trade?<br/>17.2. Trade policy: Import substitution<br/>17.2.1. Basic concepts<br/>17.2.2. More detail<br/>17.3. Export promotion<br/>17.3.1. Basic concepts<br/>17.3.2. Effect on the exchange rate<br/>17.3.3. The instruments of export promotion: More detail<br/>17.4. The move away from import substitution<br/>17.4.1. Introduction<br/>17.4.2. The eighties crisis<br/>17.4.3. Structural adjustment<br/>17.5. Summary<br/>Appendix: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank<br/>Exercises<br/>Chapter 18: Multilateral Approaches to Trade Policy<br/>18.1. Introduction<br/>18.2. Restricted trade<br/>18.2.1. Second-best arguments for protection<br/>18.2.2. Protectionist tendencies<br/>18.2.3. Explaining protectionist tendencies<br/>18.3. Issues in trade liberalization<br/>18.3.1. Introduction<br/>18.3.2. Regional agreements: Basic theory<br/>18.3.3. Regional agreements among dissimilar countries<br/>18.3.4. Regional agreements among similar countries<br/>18.3.5. Multilateralism and regionalism<br/>18.4. Summary<br/>Exercises<br/>Appendix 1: Elementary Game Theory<br/>A1.1. Introduction<br/>A1.2. Basic concepts<br/>A1.3. Nash equilibrium<br/>A1.4. Games over time<br/>Appendix 2: Elementary Statistical Methods<br/>A2.1. Introduction<br/>A2.2. Summary statistics<br/>A2.3. Regression<br/>References<br/>Author Index<br/>Subject Index |
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