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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Economic Development: Overview -- Chapter 3: Economic Growth -- Chapter 4: The New Growth Theories -- Chapter 5: History, Expectations, and Development -- Chapter 6: Economic Inequality -- Chapter 7: Inequality and Development: Interconnections -- Chapter 8: Poverty and Undernutrition -- Chapter 9: Population Growth and Economic Development -- Chapter 10: Rural and Urban -- Chapter 11: Markets in Agriculture: An Introduction -- Chapter 12: Land -- Chapter 13: Labor -- Chapter 14: Credit -- Chapter 15: Insurance -- Chapter 16: International Trade -- Chapter 17: Trade Policy -- Chapter 18: Multilateral Approaches to Trade Policy -- Appendix 1: Elementary Game Theory -- Appendix 2: Elementary Statistical Methods -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Development economics entail all the aspects of the development process especially meant for the developing countries to overcome the challenges that impede development. This can be through education, education and man power development, restructuring market incentives, incorporating favorable social and political approaches and practices among other factors. Human beings however need streamlined social and economic systems that are able to achieve development through major changes in social structures, national institutions, cultures and attitudes as well as eradication of poverty, reduction

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 Economic Development: Concept and Measurement -- 1.1 The Concept of Economic Development -- 1.2 Measurement of Economic Growth -- 1.3 The Distribution of Income and Poverty -- 1.4 International Income Comparisons -- 1.5 The Income Gap and Convergence -- 1.6 Composite Development Indicators -- Case Study 1: The Human Development Index: Kenya, Mexico and Canada -- Case Study 2: International Income Comparisons

Introduction /Ha-Joon Chang --Changing perspectives in development economics /John Toye --Market, the state and institutions in economic development /Ha-Joon Chang --Globalization and development /Deepak Nayyar --Development and the global order /Jose Antonio Ocampo --East Asian development experience /Ha-Joon Chang --Latin American economies during the second half of the twentieth century -- from the age of 'ISI'to the age of 'the end of history' /Gabriel Palma --Rethinking African development /Howard Stein --Transition economies /Michael Ellman.

This dissertation consists of four studies covering both micro and macro perspectives of development economics using theory and empirics. This thesis predominantly focuses on problems of economic development and considers policy directions to mitigate such problems. Chapter 2 develops a model of rural-urban seasonal migration with special reference to lean period shocks. Agricultural lean periods occur in rural areas due to natural disasters or agricultural downturns. This study shows that as the probability of a lean period increases, overall seasonal migration decreases but the proportion of agricultural workers undertaking seasonal migration increases. Chapter 3 investigates the relationship between access to micro-credit and temporary seasonal migration. Using primary data from Bangladesh, this study quantifies the factors that influence such migration decisions. Seasonal migration is a natural choice in a lean period, however due to strict loan repayment rules, those who have prior access to micro-credit have no such option. The study finds that that there is no significant difference in income in a lean period between those who have access to micro-credit and those who do not. Chapter 4 focuses on the determinants of government expenditure in developing countries. This study finds evidence that political and institutional variables, as well as governance variables, have considerable association with government expenditure. Among other results, corruption is found to be influential whereas, by contrast, size of the economy and linguistic fractionalization are found to have sizable negative impact on government expenditure. The study finds evidence that public expenditure significantly shrinks under military dictatorship. Chapter 5 studies the spending and absorption of aid in Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), an IMF supported aid program. The study further verifies whether the use of aid is programmed to be smoothed over time, and analyses how considerations about macroeconomic stability ...