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Development economics : a critical introduction / Shahrukh Rafi Khan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge textbooks in development economics ; 3Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Description: xvii, 400 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780415787369
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Development economicsDDC classification:
  • 338.9 23 K.S.D
LOC classification:
  • HD75
Contents:
Summary: "Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline. Economic development lends itself ideally to meet this demand, yet most undergraduate textbooks do not reflect this. This book will fill this gap, presenting all the core material needed to teach development economics in a one semester course, while also addressing the need for a new economics and offering flexibility to instructors. Rather than taking the typical approach of organizing by topic, the book uses theories and debates to guide its structure. This will allow 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. The book can be used as a standalone textbook on development economics, or to accompany a more traditional text"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Background1: Introduction2: Data and its uses in development economics3: Commonalities and differences in low and low middle income countries4: Poverty, inequality and some proposed solutionsPart II: Key approaches to economic development and the middle income trap5: Classical and radical antecedents of development economics6: Developmentalists and developmentalism7: Neo-Marxism, structuralism and dependency theory8: Neoliberalism and its critics9: New developmentalism: industrial policy, policy space, and premature deindustrialization debates10: Is there a middle income trap?Part III: How key approaches play into some key debates11: Debates on foreign aid12: Debates on foreign direct investment13: Debates on agriculture/sustainable agriculture14: Debates on technology and addressing environmental problems/green industrial policyPart IV: Conclusion15: Catch-up growth: finding a trigger

"Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline. Economic development lends itself ideally to meet this demand, yet most undergraduate textbooks do not reflect this. This book will fill this gap, presenting all the core material needed to teach development economics in a one semester course, while also addressing the need for a new economics and offering flexibility to instructors. Rather than taking the typical approach of organizing by topic, the book uses theories and debates to guide its structure. This will allow 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. The book can be used as a standalone textbook on development economics, or to accompany a more traditional text"-- Provided by publisher.

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