The Elgar companion to development studies / edited by David Alexander Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, David, 1972-

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Elgar original reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Development economics.

Economic development.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xli, 713 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar, c2006.

Summary:

The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers.

Contents:

1. Ageing and development / Peter Lloyd-Sherlock

2. Agriculture and economic growth / C. Peter Timmer

3. Assets, markets and entitlement / Julian May

4. Basic needs approach / Frances Stewart

5. Bauer, Peter Tamas (1915-2002) / Walter Elkan

6. Boserup, Ester (born 1910) / Irene Tinker

7. Cambridge controversies in growth theory / Avi J. Cohen

8. Capability approach / David A. Clark

9. Capitalism and development / John Sender and Jonathan R. Pincus

10. Child labour / Kristoffel Lieten

11. Child poverty / Santosh Mehrotra

12. Chronic poverty / David Hulme

13. Class / Alastair Greig, David Hulme and Mark Turner

14. Colonialism / Stephen Howe

15. Conflict and conflict resolution / Tom Woodhouse

16. Corporate social responsibility / David Birch

17. Cost-benefit analysis for development / John Weiss

18. Crisis management / David Alexander

19. Culture and development / Des Gasper

20. Debt crisis / A.P. Thirlwall

21. Democracy and development / Irma Adelman

22. Dependency / John S. Saul and Colin Leys

23. Development ethics / Denis Goulet

24. Diploma disease / Angela W. Little

25. Disability and development / Barbara Harriss-White and Devi Sridhar

26. Disaster mitigation / Ailsa Holloway

27. The Domar model / Robert M. Solow

28. East Asian crisis / Kaushik Basu

29. Economic aid / Howard White

30. Education for all and the millennium development goals / Keith M. Lewin

31. Education, returns to / Geeta Kingdon

32. Endogenous growth / Heinz D. Kurz

33. Environment and development / David Pearce

34. Ethnicity / Robert H. Bates

35. Famine as a social phenomenon / S.R. Osmani

36. Food security / John Cathie

37. Foreign direct investment / Luiz de Mello

38. Gender and development / Ruth Pearson

39. Global inequalities / Richard Jolly

40. Globalisation and development / Leslie Sklair

41. Globalisation and development policy / Ian Goldin

42. Green revolution and biotechnology / Jonathan R. Pincus

43. Haq, Mahbub ul (1934-1998) / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Selim Jahan

44. The Harrod model of growth and some early reactions to it / G.C. Harcourt

45. Hill, Polly (1914-2005) / C.A. Gregory

46. Hirschman, Albert Otto (born 1915) / Osvaldo Feinstein

47. History and development studies / Amiya Bagchi

48. HIV/AIDS and development / Tony Barnett

49. Human capital / Sriya Iyer

50. Human development / Mozaffar Qizilbash

51. Human development and economic growth / Gustav Ranis

52. Human development index / Amartya K. Sen

53. Human rights / Bas de Gaay Fortman

54. Human security / Selim Jahan

55. Income distribution / Richard Jolly

56. Inequality measurement / James E. Foster

57. Informal sector employment / Jan Breman

58. Institutions and development / Pranab Bardhan

59. Internal migration and rural livelihood diversification / Rachel Murphy

60. International trade / Arvind Panagariya

61. Kaldor, Nicholas (1908-1986) / J.S.L. McCombie

62. Kalecki, Michał (1899-1970) / Jan Toporowski

63. Kindleberger, Charles Poor (1910-2003) / Mića Panić

64. Kuznets, Simon (1901-1985) / Moshe Syrquin

65. Labour markets / Guy Standing

66. Land reform / Henry Bernstein

67. Least developed countries / Dharam Ghai

68. The Lewis model / Prabhat Patnaik

69. Lewis, (William) Arthur (1915-1991) / Andrew S. Downes

70. Livelihoods approach / Frank Ellis

71. Marx, Karl (1818-1883) / Peter Nolan

72. Media communications and development / Rachel Murphy

73. Microfinance / Michael Woolcock

74. Migration for rural work / Ben Rogaly

75. Migration, international / Ronald Skeldon

76. Militarism and development / Jean Drèze

77. Military expenditure and economic growth / Jean Drèze

78. Millennium development goals / Howard White

79. Missing women / Stephan Klasen

80. Modernisation theory / Ray Kiely

81. Myrdal, Gunnar (1898-1987) / Paul Streeten

82. National accounting / John M. Hartwick

83. National economic planning / Paul G. Hare

84. Nationalism and development / John Harriss

85. NGOs and civil society / Anthony Bebbington and Sam Hickey

86. North, Douglass (born 1920) / Alexander J. Field

87. Participatory research / Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi

88. Planning / Marshall Goldman

89. Population and development / Tim Dyson

90. Population : policy and ethics / Shailaja Fennell

91. Post-development / Arturo Escobar

92. Poverty and growth / Martin Ravallion

93. Poverty measurement / Stefan Dercon

94. Poverty, characteristics of / Mamphela Ramphele

95. Prebisch, Raul (1901-1986) / Edgar J. Dosman

96. Privatisation / Paul Cook, Colin Kirkpatrick and David Parker

97. Property rights and development / Daniel W. Bromley

98. Public works / Anna McCord

99. Purchasing power parity / John Cullis

100. Rawls, John (1921-2002) / Nigel Dower

101. Refugees / Khalid Koser

102. Religion and development / Sabina Alkire

103. Rent seeking and corruption / Mushtaq Khan

104. Robinson, (Edward) Austin (Gossage) (1897-1993) / G.C. Harcourt

105. Robinson, Joan (1903-1983) / G.C. Harcourt

106. Rural poverty reduction / Frank Ellis

107. Seers, Dudley (1920-1983) / Mike Faber

108. Sen, Amartya Kumar (born 1933) / Carl Riskin

109. Sharecropping / Terence J. Byres

110. Singer, Hans (born 1910-2006) / D. John Shaw

111. Smith, Adam (1723-1790) / Peter Nolan

112. Social capital / Ben Fine

113. Social exclusion / Adolfo Figueroa

114. Social justice / Christopher Bertram

115. The Solow-Swan model / Robert Dixon

116. State and development / Atul Kohli

117. Stock market and economic development / Ajit Singh

118. Streeten, Paul Patrick (born 1917) / Hugh Stretton

119. Structural adjustment / Howard Stein

120. Structural transformation / Moshe Syrquin

121. Structure and agency / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

122. Sustainable consumption / David Pearce

123. Sustainable development / David Pearce

124. Technology and development / Sanjaya Lall

125. Tinbergen, Jan (1903-1994) / Louis Emmerij

126. Tourism and development / Ron Ayres

127. Trade and industrial policy / Ha-Joon Chang

128. Trade negotiations and protectionism / Chien Yen Goh

129. Transition / Michael Ellman

130. Transnational corporations / Bruce Weisse

131. Uneconomic growth / Herman E. Daly

132. Urban livelihoods / Carole Rakodi

133. Urbanisation and Third World cities / David Satterthwaite

134. Vulnerability and coping / Frank Ellis

135. Washington Consensus / John Weeks and Howard Stein

136. Water and development / Jaqui Goldin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847202864 (e-book)

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