Shahrukh Rafi Khan

Development Economics (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents all the core material needed to teach development economics in a one semester course. The book allows students to see different perspectives on key development questions, and therefore to understand more fully the contested nature of many key areas of development economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351848923
• Artikelnr.: 57962158

Autorenporträt

Shahrukh Rafi Khan is currently Research Associate at Mount Holyoke College, USA. He formerly served as executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He has also formerly taught at the University of Utah and Vassar College and served as Copeland Fellow at Amherst College. He has published extensively in refereed journals and authored and edited numerous books. He has twice won The Akhtar Hameed Khan book prize and engaged in academic consulting for several international organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Background
1: Introduction
2: Data and their use in development economics
3: Commonalities and differences among low and low middle income countries
4: Poverty, inequality and some proposed solutions
Part II: Key approaches to economic development and the middle income trap
5: Classical and radical antecedents of development economics
6: Developmentalists and developmentalism
7: Neo-Marxism, structuralism and dependency theory
8: Neoliberalism and its critics
9: New developmentalism: industrial policy, policy space and premature
deindustrialization debates
10: Is there a middle income trap?
Part III: How key approaches play into some key debates
11: Debates on foreign aid
12: Debates on foreign direct investment
13: Debates on agriculture/sustainable agriculture
14: Debates on technology and addressing environmental problems/green
industrial policy
Part IV: Conclusion
15: Catch-up growth: finding a trigger