In search of prosperity

analytic narratives on economic growth

The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of ...

Inequality and growth

theory and policy implications

Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain less than others, and a fraction of the population may actually ...

Economic development

This best-selling text offers a unique policy-oriented approach that uses models and concepts to illustrate real-world development problems. Retaining its hallmark accessibility throughout, the Eighth Edition uses the most current data, offering full coverage of recent advances in the field, and featuring a balanced presentation ...

The economics of structural change

These volumes constitute a remarkably comprehensive collection of seminal arcticles on structural change, including historical works such as Adam Smith on the division of labor and Karl Marx on reproduction schemes and modern pieces by Leontief, Sraffa, Pasinetti, Goodwin, Baumol, Arrow, Aghion and Howitt.

International trade, wage inequality and the developing economy

A general equilibrium approach

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed ...

En busca del crecimiento

andanzas y tribulaciones de los economistas del desarrollo

Desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los economistas se han esforzado por averiguar por qué los países pobres no consiguen alcanzar los niveles de renta de los países industrializados del Norte, a la vez que han aplicado toda clase de remedios a la ...

Technology, growth and the labor market

In the late-20th and early-21st centuries, economic prognosticators have pondered whether the US economy has entered a new era. This "new economy" is generally characterized as having technological innovations that have raised productivity and, accordingly, removed pricing power from the world's producers on a ...

Dynamic programming in economics

Dynamic Programming in Economics is an outgrowth of a course intended for students in the first year PhD program and for researchers in Macroeconomics Dynamics. It can be used by students and researchers in Mathematics as well as in Economics. The purpose of Dynamic Programming ...

Macro-economics: making gender matter

concepts, policies and institutional change in developing countries

The contributors cover three broad areas - macro-economics and gender, gender and the state, and the institutionalisation of gender considerations in national and international organisations. Using original empirical material, in particular from Latin American countries, they explore a wide range of key issues. These include the ...

Producción, productividad y crecimiento

El libro que el lector tiene ante sí contiene la totalidad de los trabajos presentados en el curso #Producción, productividad y crecimiento# que se desarrolló en julio del 2002, en el marco de la universidad de verano de la Univesitat de Lleida. Además, hay que ...

Growth, industrial organisation and economic generalities

This compedium of essays brings together some of William Baumol's most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Amongst many other ...

From the local to the global

key issues in development studies

"Think globally, act locally" is a phrase that is often used nowadays to describe the importance of popular activism and an awareness of the issues surrounding globalization. This work is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the key concepts in development which are central to ...

Growth theory and growth policy

The theory of economic growth has been one of the most important issues in the study of economics since the days of Adam Smith. This collection examines the phenomenon of economic growth. With contributions from such leading academic figures as Richard Arena and Philip Arestis ...

Financing economic development in the 21st century

This work offers a survey of the major mechanisms for financing economic development today. It explores the details of all the standard developmental tools, such as Tax Incremental Finance districts, angel and venture capital, and tax abatements

Public debt and endogenous growth

This book considers public debt dynamics in various endogenous growth models, namely the AK model and explicit models of innovation and human capital accumulation. Furthermore, the closed economy, the small open economy and a two-country world are analysed. In the closed economy model, the focus ...

New international poverty reduction strategies

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development policies. This book provides a critical analysis of the poverty reduction ...

Developement policy as public finance

How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost- benefit analysis as a ...

Rural poverty, risk and development

Throughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failre and skill obsolescence. This volume investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development ...

Development planning and poverty reduction

The aim of development is always poverty reduction but the devil is in the detail and planning impacts heavily on the results. This study examines and evaluates macroeconomic strategies and their effectiveness in truly reducing poverty

Knowledge, inequality and growth in the new economy

During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant modern technology - information and communication technology (ICT) - does not seem to ...