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Macrodevelopment and microdevelopment, microcredit programs, capital markets, microfinance, and policy recommendations; developing countries; 6 articles.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Development Theory and Third World Development Policy -- Postwar Conceptualizations of Development -- Development Planning -- Public Enterprises -- Development Management -- A Critical Assessment -- Concluding Remarks -- 2. Tax Policy and Savings Mobilization -- Tax Policy and Development -- Savings Mobilization -- Concluding Remarks -- 3. Foreign Aid and Foreign Debt -- Foreign Aid and the Development Process -- The Foreign Debt Problem

'Development in the Third World--From Policy Failure to Policy Reform' by Kempe Ronald Hope Sr is reviewed.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS -- 1. Macroeconomic Policy in the Third World--A Structuralist Perspective -- 2. Growth and Equity: A Strategy for Reconciliation -- 3. Income Distribution and Development: A Critique of Current Methodology -- 4. Farming Systems Research: An Applied Agricultural Research Methodology for Farmers with Limited Resources in the LDCs -- 5. Some New Methods of Predicting Changes in Economic Inequality Associated with Trends in Growth and Development -- PART 2: AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES -- 6. Economics of Agricultural Growth: The Case of Northern India -- 7. Agricultural Development Planning: The Thailand Case -- 8. Agricultural Finance and Rural Development -- 9. Midcareer Training: A Development Investment--Is It Worth the Cost -- 10. Problems of Rural Development: Some Contrast Between Asia and Africa -- 11. The Design of Rural Development: A Policy Perspective -- PART 3: LAND AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT -- 12. The Management Factor in Developing Economies -- 13. Land and Water Resources: A New Perspective on Economic Development -- 14. Water Use Management in Development -- 15. Improved Irrigation Water Management: A Major Agricultural Development Emphasis -- 16. Irrigation and Economic Development: Some Lessons from India -- PART 4: GLOBAL ISSUES -- 17. The Global Food Situation and the Choice of Development Strategy -- 18. Reforming the Global Agricultural Research Support System -- 19. Towards Reform of Our International Monetary and Trade Institutions -- 20. Some Domestic Consequences of the Expanded Role of the United States in Meeting World Food Needs -- 21. A Critique of the Economics of U.S. Foreign Aid -- About the Contributors -- Index.