Santosh Mehrotra / Richard Jolly (eds.)

Develpment with a Human Face

Experiences in Social Achievemnt and Economic Growth
Herausgeber: Jolly, Richard; Mehrotra, Santosh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Development with a Human Face presents retrospective studies of ten developing countries that have demonstrated successful health and educational development over the last thirty to forty years despite low incomes. Half of them have combined rapid economic growth with social achievement, while the others have experienced slower growth, interrupted by periods of economic decline. However, as illustrated here, all have achieved sustained improvement in mortality reduction and educational levels, providing valuable guidance for other developing countries seeking to replicate these successful social experiments. A timely, unprecedented antidote to development pessimism that combines valuable cross-regional comparisons with region-specific studies, this book will interest policy-makers and government officials in developing countries, international agencies, development specialists, and journalists. It will also enhance graduate-level courses in development economics and development studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780198296577
• ISBN-10: 0198296576
• Artikelnr.: 21872051

Autorenporträt

Santosh Mehrotra is Senior Development Economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. Richard Jolly is Special Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Overview
* 1: Richard Jolly: Profiles in Success: Reasons for Hope and
Priorities for Action
* 2: Santosh Mehrotra: Social Development in High-Achieving Countries:
Common Elements and Diversities
* 3: Santosh Mehrotra: Health and Education Policies in High-Achieving
Countries: Some Lessons
* Part II: Case-Studies
* 4: Tyrrell Duncan, Keith Jefferis, and Patrick Molutsi: Botswana:
Social Development in a Resource-rich Economy
* 5: Edward and Bridget Dommen: Mauritius: The Roots of Success
1960-1993
* 6: Rene Loewenson and Munhamo Chisvo: Rapid Social Transformation
despite Economic Adjustment and Slow Growth: The Experience of
Zimbabwe
* 7: T. N. Krishnan: The Route to Social Development in Kerala: Social
Intermediation and Public Action
* 8: Patricia Alailama and Nimal Sanderatne: Social Policies in a
Slowly Growing Economy: Sri Lanka
* 9: Santosh Mehrotra, In-Hwa Park, and Hwa-Jong Baek: Social Policies
in a Growing Economy: The Role of the State in the Republic of Korea
* 10: Leong Choon Heng and Tan Siew Hoey: Malaysia: Social Development,
Poverty Reduction, and Economic Transformation
* 11: Myrtle D. Bishop, Rosalyn Corbin, and Neville C. Duncan:
Barbados: Social Development in a Small Island State
* 12: Leonardo Garnier, Rebeca Grynspan, Roberto Hidalgo, Guillermo
Monge, and Juan Diego Trejos: Costa Rica: Social Development and
Heterodox Adjustment
* 13: Human Development in Cuba: Growing Risk of Reversal
* Part III: Conclusion
* 14: Lincoln C. Chen and Meghnad Desai: Paths to Social Development:
Lessons from Case-Studies
* 15: Lance Taylor, Santosh Mehrotra, and Enrique Delamonica: The Links
between Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Social Development:
Theory and Practice