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• catalog abstract ""The Process of Economic Development is a textbook that examines development obstacles from the colonial era to the present in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Utilizing a blend of classical development ideas and current theory, the book enables students to gain the type of balanced picture unavailable to them in other textbooks."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13248895.
• catalog contributor b13248896.
• catalog created "2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
• catalog description ""The Process of Economic Development is a textbook that examines development obstacles from the colonial era to the present in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Utilizing a blend of classical development ideas and current theory, the book enables students to gain the type of balanced picture unavailable to them in other textbooks."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1 The development imperative 3 -- Poverty in the less-developed world 5 -- The development enigma 9 -- Recent trends in economic growth 11 -- Why development, and why now? 16 -- Economic growth and development requires structural change 17 -- Barriers to development 20 -- 2 Measuring economic growth and development 28 -- The economic growth/income criterion of development 29 -- Measuring economic growth 31 -- Adjustments to the total income measure 34 -- GNP or GDP: is one income measure better than the other? 43 -- International comparisons of income: purchasing power parity 43 -- The indicators criterion of development: the human development index 47 -- Adjustments to the HDI 50 -- Comparing the income per capita and HDI measures 52 -- Economic growth and equity: goals at odds? 53 -- Appendix 2A Calculating the Gini coefficient 62 -- Appendix 2B Calculating the HDI index 63 -- 3".
• catalog description "297 -- Continuing change 299 -- What can other less-developed nations learn? 300 -- Where we are headed 301 -- 11 Agriculture and development 309 -- Inadequate infrastructural investment 313 -- Agrarian dualism 315 -- Primary product mono-exporters 317 -- Peasant agriculture and small-scale cultivators 321 -- Are peasants efficient producers? 324 -- High-yield varieties and rural productivity 328 -- The developmental problems of cash crop farmers 331 -- Large landholdings and agrarian backwardness 335 -- The structuralist view 337 -- Transnational agribusiness 338 -- Government in agricultural development 340 -- Land reform 342 -- Land reform in Mexico 343 -- South Korea's Saemaul Undong 344 -- 12 Population, education and human capital 351 -- The population problem 352 -- The natural and the actual rate of population growth 352 -- The demographic transition 355 --".
• catalog description "Currency over-valuation and the balance of payments 461 -- "Good" external imbalances 464 -- Monitoring the balance of payments 466 -- 16 The debt problem and development 471 -- Origins of the external debt dilemma 472 -- Petro-dollar recycling 473 -- Dimensions of the debt crisis 475 -- External borrowing, adjustment policies, and savings 480 -- The debt burden 482 -- The debt crisis 484 -- Efforts to overcome the debt crisis 485 -- Debt overhang and future economic growth 487 -- 17 International institutional linkages: the IMF, the World Bank, and foreign aid 496 -- Objectives of the IMF 503 -- Do IMF programs work? 509 -- The World Bank 512 -- Critiques of World Bank and IMF SALs 520 -- Sustainable development, comprehensive development framework, and a knowledge bank? 521 -- Foreign aid 522.".
• catalog description "Determinants of the crude birth rate 357 -- The importance of the different "roles" of children in less-developed and developed economies 359 -- Human capital accumulation: augmenting initial endowments 362 -- Human capital accumulation and market failure 365 -- Population growth and human capital accumulation 369 -- Final observations 370 -- 13 Technology and development 377 -- What is technology? 378 -- A technological strategy of development 380 -- Total factor productivity and national technology 384 -- Technology-centered development versus capital-centered development 386 -- Industrial innovation 390 -- Industrial policies to promote national technology 392 -- Macropolicies and technological change 393 -- Policy implications 394 -- Part 4 Problems and issues 401 -- 14 Transnational corporations and economic development 403 -- Import substitution industrialization and the TNCs 404 --".
• catalog description "Development in historical perspective 66 -- The origins of economic development 68 -- Colonialism 70 -- The lasting effects of colonialism and path dependency 71 -- Forms of European colonialism 73 -- Merchant capital: from old colonialism to new colonialism 74 -- British rule in India: the transition from merchant capital to industrial capital 74 -- The functional role of colonialism 75 -- The colonial elite: the enduring significance of collaboration 78 -- De-industrialization in the colonies 79 -- Colonial industrialization? 81 -- Measuring the impact of colonialism 83 -- The terms of trade and comparative advantage 83 -- Credit and underdevelopment 86 -- The new imperialism: 1870-1914 87 -- Mature colonialism and progressive colonialism 88 -- British and French colonialism in West Africa: 1945-1965 88 -- Progressive colonialism 89 -- Decolonization 90 -- Point Four Aid 91 -- Economic dualism 92 --".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Initiating the structural transformation toward industrialization 253 -- Why is government-sponsored ISI needed? 257 -- Infant industry tariffs: government intervention to protect domestic industry 260 -- Static and dynamic welfare effects of an infant industry tariff 264 -- The elimination of infant industry protection: when is enough, enough? 267 -- The importance of embedded state autonomy to successful ISI 268 -- Potential gains from the easy ISI stage of industrialization 269 -- Parastate firms and social capital 270 -- Measuring the success of easy ISI 272 -- 10 Strategy switching and industrial transformation 280 -- Continuing structural change 280 -- Industrial sequencing: beyond easy ISI 281 -- Foreign exchange shortages 282 -- Easy export substitution 283 -- Difficult or secondary ISI 288 -- Endowments and policies: explaining strategy switches 291 -- Subsequent strategy switches 294 -- Export promotion".
• catalog description "Part 2 Theories of development and underdevelopment 101 -- 4 Classical and neoclassical theories 103 -- Adam Smith: a theory of competitive capitalism and growth 105 -- Malthus' theory of population and economic growth 108 -- Ricardo's theories of diminishing returns and comparative advantage 111 -- Marx's analysis of capitalist development 119 -- Neoclassical growth models 120 -- 5 Developmentalist theories of economic development 128 -- The theory of the big push 130 -- A theory of balanced growth 133 -- Unbalanced growth 135 -- Growth with unlimited supplies of labor 140 -- Utilizing the economic surplus 147 -- Stages of growth theory 149 -- 6 Heterodox theories of economic development 158 -- The Latin American structuralists 159 -- The institutionalists 171 -- Dependency analysis 177 -- Classical Marxism 183 -- Part 3 The structural transformation 189 -- 7".
• catalog description "The globally integrated production system 407 -- Direct foreign investment 410 -- Who in the less-developed countries gains from DFI? 411 -- Potential costs of TNCs to a host country 415 -- Weak linkages, thin globalization 417 -- Export promotion and the fallacy of composition 420 -- Long-term costs of TNCs: the potential for environmental degradation 421 -- Export processing zones and the problems of small nations 422 -- Bargaining with the TNCs 428 -- The integrated production system 433 -- 15 Macroeconomic equilibrium: the external balance 440 -- Exchange rates 441 -- Types of exchange rate regimes 442 -- The balance of payments 452 -- The current account balance 452 -- The capital account and financial account balances 455 -- The twin deficits and the balance of payments 458 -- What is a balance of payments problem? 459 -- Exchange rates and the balance of payments 459 --".
• catalog description "The state as a potential agent of transformation: from neoliberalism to embedded autonomy 191 -- Origins of the neoliberal paradigm 193 -- Government in the process of development 199 -- The neoliberalism of Deepak Lal 202 -- The new political economy 205 -- An assessment of the neoliberal theory of the state 206 -- Embedded autonomy 210 -- Depicting state forms 215 -- 8 Endogenous growth theories and new strategies for development 223 -- The income convergence controversy 224 -- Income convergence and path dependence 227 -- Endogenous growth models 228 -- Key inputs to growth in endogenous growth models 234 -- Technical efficiency change 239 -- 9 The initial structural transformation: initiating the industrialization process 248 -- Introduction: an industrialization imperative? 248 -- Structural change and economic growth and development 250 -- The Lewis dual-economy model of structural transformation 252 --".
• catalog extent "xxv, 539 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0415254159 (hbk.)".
• catalog identifier "0415254167 (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
• catalog subject "338.9 22".
• catalog subject "Economic development.".
• catalog subject "HD82 .C96 2004".
• catalog tableOfContents "1 The development imperative 3 -- Poverty in the less-developed world 5 -- The development enigma 9 -- Recent trends in economic growth 11 -- Why development, and why now? 16 -- Economic growth and development requires structural change 17 -- Barriers to development 20 -- 2 Measuring economic growth and development 28 -- The economic growth/income criterion of development 29 -- Measuring economic growth 31 -- Adjustments to the total income measure 34 -- GNP or GDP: is one income measure better than the other? 43 -- International comparisons of income: purchasing power parity 43 -- The indicators criterion of development: the human development index 47 -- Adjustments to the HDI 50 -- Comparing the income per capita and HDI measures 52 -- Economic growth and equity: goals at odds? 53 -- Appendix 2A Calculating the Gini coefficient 62 -- Appendix 2B Calculating the HDI index 63 -- 3".
• catalog tableOfContents "297 -- Continuing change 299 -- What can other less-developed nations learn? 300 -- Where we are headed 301 -- 11 Agriculture and development 309 -- Inadequate infrastructural investment 313 -- Agrarian dualism 315 -- Primary product mono-exporters 317 -- Peasant agriculture and small-scale cultivators 321 -- Are peasants efficient producers? 324 -- High-yield varieties and rural productivity 328 -- The developmental problems of cash crop farmers 331 -- Large landholdings and agrarian backwardness 335 -- The structuralist view 337 -- Transnational agribusiness 338 -- Government in agricultural development 340 -- Land reform 342 -- Land reform in Mexico 343 -- South Korea's Saemaul Undong 344 -- 12 Population, education and human capital 351 -- The population problem 352 -- The natural and the actual rate of population growth 352 -- The demographic transition 355 --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Currency over-valuation and the balance of payments 461 -- "Good" external imbalances 464 -- Monitoring the balance of payments 466 -- 16 The debt problem and development 471 -- Origins of the external debt dilemma 472 -- Petro-dollar recycling 473 -- Dimensions of the debt crisis 475 -- External borrowing, adjustment policies, and savings 480 -- The debt burden 482 -- The debt crisis 484 -- Efforts to overcome the debt crisis 485 -- Debt overhang and future economic growth 487 -- 17 International institutional linkages: the IMF, the World Bank, and foreign aid 496 -- Objectives of the IMF 503 -- Do IMF programs work? 509 -- The World Bank 512 -- Critiques of World Bank and IMF SALs 520 -- Sustainable development, comprehensive development framework, and a knowledge bank? 521 -- Foreign aid 522.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Determinants of the crude birth rate 357 -- The importance of the different "roles" of children in less-developed and developed economies 359 -- Human capital accumulation: augmenting initial endowments 362 -- Human capital accumulation and market failure 365 -- Population growth and human capital accumulation 369 -- Final observations 370 -- 13 Technology and development 377 -- What is technology? 378 -- A technological strategy of development 380 -- Total factor productivity and national technology 384 -- Technology-centered development versus capital-centered development 386 -- Industrial innovation 390 -- Industrial policies to promote national technology 392 -- Macropolicies and technological change 393 -- Policy implications 394 -- Part 4 Problems and issues 401 -- 14 Transnational corporations and economic development 403 -- Import substitution industrialization and the TNCs 404 --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Development in historical perspective 66 -- The origins of economic development 68 -- Colonialism 70 -- The lasting effects of colonialism and path dependency 71 -- Forms of European colonialism 73 -- Merchant capital: from old colonialism to new colonialism 74 -- British rule in India: the transition from merchant capital to industrial capital 74 -- The functional role of colonialism 75 -- The colonial elite: the enduring significance of collaboration 78 -- De-industrialization in the colonies 79 -- Colonial industrialization? 81 -- Measuring the impact of colonialism 83 -- The terms of trade and comparative advantage 83 -- Credit and underdevelopment 86 -- The new imperialism: 1870-1914 87 -- Mature colonialism and progressive colonialism 88 -- British and French colonialism in West Africa: 1945-1965 88 -- Progressive colonialism 89 -- Decolonization 90 -- Point Four Aid 91 -- Economic dualism 92 --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Initiating the structural transformation toward industrialization 253 -- Why is government-sponsored ISI needed? 257 -- Infant industry tariffs: government intervention to protect domestic industry 260 -- Static and dynamic welfare effects of an infant industry tariff 264 -- The elimination of infant industry protection: when is enough, enough? 267 -- The importance of embedded state autonomy to successful ISI 268 -- Potential gains from the easy ISI stage of industrialization 269 -- Parastate firms and social capital 270 -- Measuring the success of easy ISI 272 -- 10 Strategy switching and industrial transformation 280 -- Continuing structural change 280 -- Industrial sequencing: beyond easy ISI 281 -- Foreign exchange shortages 282 -- Easy export substitution 283 -- Difficult or secondary ISI 288 -- Endowments and policies: explaining strategy switches 291 -- Subsequent strategy switches 294 -- Export promotion".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part 2 Theories of development and underdevelopment 101 -- 4 Classical and neoclassical theories 103 -- Adam Smith: a theory of competitive capitalism and growth 105 -- Malthus' theory of population and economic growth 108 -- Ricardo's theories of diminishing returns and comparative advantage 111 -- Marx's analysis of capitalist development 119 -- Neoclassical growth models 120 -- 5 Developmentalist theories of economic development 128 -- The theory of the big push 130 -- A theory of balanced growth 133 -- Unbalanced growth 135 -- Growth with unlimited supplies of labor 140 -- Utilizing the economic surplus 147 -- Stages of growth theory 149 -- 6 Heterodox theories of economic development 158 -- The Latin American structuralists 159 -- The institutionalists 171 -- Dependency analysis 177 -- Classical Marxism 183 -- Part 3 The structural transformation 189 -- 7".
• catalog tableOfContents "The globally integrated production system 407 -- Direct foreign investment 410 -- Who in the less-developed countries gains from DFI? 411 -- Potential costs of TNCs to a host country 415 -- Weak linkages, thin globalization 417 -- Export promotion and the fallacy of composition 420 -- Long-term costs of TNCs: the potential for environmental degradation 421 -- Export processing zones and the problems of small nations 422 -- Bargaining with the TNCs 428 -- The integrated production system 433 -- 15 Macroeconomic equilibrium: the external balance 440 -- Exchange rates 441 -- Types of exchange rate regimes 442 -- The balance of payments 452 -- The current account balance 452 -- The capital account and financial account balances 455 -- The twin deficits and the balance of payments 458 -- What is a balance of payments problem? 459 -- Exchange rates and the balance of payments 459 --".
• catalog tableOfContents "The state as a potential agent of transformation: from neoliberalism to embedded autonomy 191 -- Origins of the neoliberal paradigm 193 -- Government in the process of development 199 -- The neoliberalism of Deepak Lal 202 -- The new political economy 205 -- An assessment of the neoliberal theory of the state 206 -- Embedded autonomy 210 -- Depicting state forms 215 -- 8 Endogenous growth theories and new strategies for development 223 -- The income convergence controversy 224 -- Income convergence and path dependence 227 -- Endogenous growth models 228 -- Key inputs to growth in endogenous growth models 234 -- Technical efficiency change 239 -- 9 The initial structural transformation: initiating the industrialization process 248 -- Introduction: an industrialization imperative? 248 -- Structural change and economic growth and development 250 -- The Lewis dual-economy model of structural transformation 252 --".
• catalog title "The process of economic development / James M. Cypher and James L. Dietz.".
• catalog type "text".