Exploration in development issues : selected articles of Nurul Islam / Nurul Islam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Islam, Nurul, 1929-

Series:

Voices in development management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Development economics.

Economic development.

Economic assistance.

Physical Description:

xi, 568 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0754615952

9780754615958

OCLC:

50403742