Maurice Scott / Deepak Lal (eds.)

Public Policy and Economic Development

Essays in Honour of Ian Little
Herausgeber: Scott, Maurice; Lal, Deepak

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this festschrift for Ian Little, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford, distinguished experts evaluate policy questions in such areas as exchange rate policy, problems of market stabilization, industrialization of developing countries, trade shocks, capital flows, principles of taxation, and political implications of economic policy decisions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 27mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780198285823
• ISBN-10: 0198285825
• Artikelnr.: 22195912

Inhaltsangabe

Francis Seton: Ian Little - a salute inter vivos
W. Max Corden: Macroeconomic adjustment in developing countries
David Bevan, Paul Collier, & Jan Gunning: Economic policy in countries prone to temporary trade shocks
Vijay Joshi: Exchange rate regimes in developing countries
David Newbery: Commodity price stabilization
John M. Page, Jr: The pursuit of industrial growth, policy initiatives, and economic consequences
Sudhir Mulji: Public sector management: A case-study of India
G. M. Meier: Trade policy and development
Anne O. Krueger: The political economy of controls: American sugar
Jagdish Bhagwati: The theory of political economy, economic policy, and foreign investment
Deepak Lal: International capital flows and economic development
Ehtisham Ahmad & Nicholas Stern: Principles of taxation for developing countries
Maurice Scott: Social cost-benefit analysis
Göran Ohlin: The population enigma
Dipak Mazumda: Government intervention and urban labour markets in LDCs
Angus Maddison: The colonial burden: A comparative perspective