Development and Change

Development and Change

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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