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Summary
Summary
Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India, Poland, Brazil, China, and other Pacific Rim countries, and the slow, yet essential, growth for a turnaround of sub-Saharan Africa. The book is suitable for those with a background in economics principles. The fifth edition of the text, written by a scholar of developing countries, is replete with real-world examples and up-to-date information. Nafziger discusses poverty, income inequality, hunger, unemployment, the environment and carbon-dioxide emissions, and the widening gap between rich (including middle-income) and poor countries. Other new components include the rise and fall of models based on Russia, Japan, China/Taiwan/Korea and North America; randomized experiments to assess aid; an exploration of whether information technology and mobile phones can provide poor countries with a shortcut to prosperity; and a discussion of how worldwide financial crises, debt, and trade and capital markets affect developing countries.
Table of Contents
Preface |
Part I Principles and Concepts of Development |
1 How the other two-thirds live |
2 What is development? |
3 Economic development in historical perspective |
4 Characteristics and institutions of developing countries |
5 Theories of economic development |
Part II Poverty Alleviation and Income Distribution |
6 Poverty, malnutrition, and income inequality |
7 Rural poverty and agricultural transformation |
Part III Factors of Growth |
8 Population and development |
9 Employment, migration, and urbanization |
10 Education, health, and human capital |
11 Capital formation, investment choice, information technology, and technical progress |
12 Entrepreneurship, organization, and innovation |
13 Natural resources and the environment: toward sustainable development |
Part IV The Macroeconomics and International Economics of Development |
14 Monetary, fiscal, and incomes policy, and inflation |
15 Balance of payments, aid, and foreign investment |
16 The external debt and financial crises |
17 International trade |
Part V Development Strategies |
18 The transition to liberalization and economic reform: Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China |
19 Stabilization, adjustment, and reform |