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Frontiers of development economics : the future in perspective

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : World Bank ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.Description: x, 575 pages : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780195215922
  • 0195215923
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9 MEI
Contents:
The old generation of development economists and the new / Gerald M. Meier -- On the goals of development / Kaushik Basu -- Fallacies in development theory and their implications for policy / Irma Adelman -- Revisiting the challenge of development / Vinod Thomas -- The evolution of thinking about poverty: exploring the interactions / Ravi Kanbur and Lyn Squire -- Development issues: settled and open / Shahid Yusuf and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Distributive conflicts, collective action, and institutional economics / Pranab Bardhan -- Historical perspectives on development / Nicholas Crafts -- In quest of the political: the political economy of development policymaking / Merilee S. Grindle -- Modern economic theory and development / Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Summary: Co-edited by the Vice President of the World Bank, this volume offers work from a generation of thinkers in development economics.
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Includes index.

The old generation of development economists and the new / Gerald M. Meier --
On the goals of development / Kaushik Basu --
Fallacies in development theory and their implications for policy / Irma Adelman --
Revisiting the challenge of development / Vinod Thomas --
The evolution of thinking about poverty: exploring the interactions / Ravi Kanbur and Lyn Squire --
Development issues: settled and open / Shahid Yusuf and Joseph E. Stiglitz --
Distributive conflicts, collective action, and institutional economics / Pranab Bardhan --
Historical perspectives on development / Nicholas Crafts --
In quest of the political: the political economy of development policymaking / Merilee S. Grindle --
Modern economic theory and development / Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Co-edited by the Vice President of the World Bank, this volume offers work from a generation of thinkers in development economics.

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