Michael P. Todaro, Stephen C. Smith

Economic Development (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Economic Development, the leading textbook in this field, provides your students with a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, driving policy issues, and latest research. Todaro and Smith take a policy-oriented approach, presenting economic theory in the context of critical policy debates and country-specific case studies, to show how theory relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson HigherEducation
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781292291192
• Artikelnr.: 59192246

Autorenporträt

Michael P. Todaro was Professor of Economics at New York University for eighteen years and Senior Associate at the Population Council for thirty years. He lived and taught in Africa for six years. He appears in Who's Who in Economics and Economists of the Twentieth Century. He is also the author of eight books and more than fifty professional articles. Stephen C. Smith is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University. Smith is the author of Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works, co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, and author or co-author of some three dozen journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 1 Introducing Economic Development: A Global Perspective
2. 2 Comparative Economic Development
3. 3 Classic Theories of Economic Growth and Development
4. 4 Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment
5. 5 Poverty, Inequality, and Development
6. 6 Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes, Consequences,
and Controversies
7. 7 Urbanisation and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and Policy
8. 8 Human Capital: Education and Health in Economic Development
9. 9 Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development
10. 10 The Environment and Development
11. 11 Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market, State, and Civil
Society
12. 12 International Trade Theory and Development Strategy
13. 13 Balance of Payments, Debt, Financial Crises, and Sustainable
Recovery: Cases and Policies
14. 14 Foreign Finance, Investment, Aid, and Conflict: Controversies and
Opportunities
15. 15 Finance and Fiscal Policy for Development