Author: Pranab Bardhan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 359
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195655451
Description
This collection for K N Raj - internationally known for his contributions to development economics - provides a different perspective to development issues and experiences over the last thirty years.
This volume is an outstanding collection of writings in development economics. The essays fall into three section: development theory, comparative development experience of East Asia, Latin America and South Asia, and the Indian development experience. They emphasize the importance of institutions and their responses to the forces of change in the process of development.
This book provides valuable insights for development economists, p0olic-planners, and practitioners.
Excerpts From Reviews:
An outstanding compendium with essays from a relatively younger generation of economists who have contributed to development theory and policy and have influenced the course of development economics. - The Indian Express
The essays sensitize the reader to the fact that economic development is about human well being. - Financial Express
Interesting book in development policy, with special reference to Indian economic development. - Economic Times
THE AUTHORS:
Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri retired as Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics.
T N Krishnan was Director of Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum.
Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Contributors and Editors
K.N. Raj : A Biographical Note
PART I
ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT THEORY
CHAPTER I
Life Expectancy and Inequality : Some Conceptual Issues
CHAPTER II
Labour Markets, Adaptive Mechanisms, and Nutritional Status
CHAPTER III
Making Institutional Choices
CHAPTER IV
The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy
CHAPTER V
Trade and Exchange Rate Policy with a Binding Foreign Exchange Constraint
CHAPTER VI
Sustainable Development and the Commons Problem : A Simple Approach
PART II
COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER VII
Determinants of Household Income in Rural China
CHAPTER VIII
Poverty in China's Countryside : Legacy and Change
CHAPTER IX
Structural Adjustment in China, Egypt and India
CHAPTER X
Stabilization Programmes in Developing Countries : Old Truths and New Elements
CHAPTER XI
Paths to Fertility Decline : A Cross-country Analysis
PART III
ISSUES IN INDIAN DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER XII
Agrarian Reform and Agricultural Development : Some Neglected Dimensions
CHAPTER XIII
Widening Distances : State Domestic Product Variations, 1961-1981
CHAPTER XIV
Demand Deficiency and Indian Industrial Development
CHAPTER XV
Stabilization and the Control of Central Government Expenditure in India
CHAPTER XVI
The Second Five Year Plan Strategy : A Reappraisal
CHAPTER XVII
Quality of Life and Nutritional Status : A Reconsideration of Some Puzzles from Kerala
CHAPTER XVIII
The 'Intermediate Regime' : Any Sign of Graduation ?
Index