Michael Tribe, Frederick Nixson, Andy Sumner

Economics and Development Studies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economics and Development Studies synthesises existing development economics literature, much of it very contemporary, in order to identify the salient issues and controversies and to make them accessible and understandable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780415450393
• ISBN-10: 041545039X
• Artikelnr.: 54572821

Autorenporträt

Michael Tribe is a development economist whose principal overseas research, consultancy and teaching experience has been in sub-Saharan Africa, in Uganda and Ghana in particular, over four decades. He has been the Honorary Secretary of the UK and Ireland Development Studies Association since 2000. Frederick Nixson is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the University of Manchester. His research interests span macroeconomic policy, aid, industrialisation strategies and experiences, privatisation, the Asian transitional economies and poverty. Andy Sumner is a fellow of the Vulnerability and Poverty Research Team at the Institute of Development Studies. He is a cross-disciplinary economist with primary foci of interest in child poverty and wellbeing; poverty indicators, concepts, methods, approaches; and the politics of policy processes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Development Economics and Development Studies 2. The Nature of
Development Economics 3. Economic Growth and Structural Change 4. Economic
Growth and Developing Countries 5. Economic Growth and Economic Development
Since 1960 6. The Global Economy and the Third World 7. Developing
Countries and International Trade 8. Economics and Development Policy 9.
Poverty, Inequality and Development Economists 10. Conclusion