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_beng
_cDLC
_erda
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050 0 0 _aHD75
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_bK.S.D
100 1 _aKhan, Shahrukh Rafi,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aDevelopment economics :
_ba critical introduction /
_cShahrukh Rafi Khan.
263 _a2001
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
_c2020.
300 _axvii, 400 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aRoutledge textbooks in development economics ;
_v3
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPart 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
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
650 0 _aDevelopment economics.
650 0 _aEconomic development.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKhan, Shahrukh Rafi.
_tDevelopment economics
_dAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
_z9780415787352
_w(DLC) 2019042113
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_cBK