Development with a human face : experiences in social achievement and economic growth
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Development with a human face : experiences in social achievement and economic growth
Oxford University Press, 2000
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First published: 1998
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Within the last fifty years, most developing countries have made health and educational advances that took nearly two centuries in the industrialized countries. This book presents retrospective studies of ten developing countries that managed to exceed the scope and pace of social achievement of other developing countries, with many of their social indicators now being comparable with those of industrialized countries. This book attempts to learn the lesson of their
success.
Half the ten countries studied have combined rapid economic growth with social achievement, and are now considered to have high-performing economies. Significantly, the high-growth economies achieved social progress very early in the development process, when national incomes were still low. Others grew more slowly and experienced interrupted growth. However, they demonstrate that it is possible to achieve a high level of social development even without a thriving economy, if the government
sets the right priorities.
All ten countries achieved sustained improvement in child survival and educational levels despite low incomes, precisely because the investment required for the provision of basic services is low in cost but high in effectiveness. The cases chosen represent all the developing regions, and offer a variety of routes to high educational status, decreased child mortality, and low fertility. The book provides valuable guidance to policy-makers in developing countries in every region seeking to
replicate these successful social experiments.
Table of Contents
- PART I: OVERVIEW
- 1. Profiles in Success: Reasons for Hope and Priorities for Action
- 2. Social Development in High-Achieving Countries: Common Elements and Diversities
- 3. Health and Education Policies in High-Achieving Countries: Some Lessons
- PART II: CASE-STUDIES
- 4. Botswana: Social Development in a Resource-rich Economy
- 5. Mauritius: The Roots of Success 1960-1993
- 6. Rapid Social Transformation despite Economic Adjustment and Slow Growth: The Experience of Zimbabwe
- 7. The Route to Social Development in Kerala: Social Intermediation and Public Action
- 8. Social Policies in a Slowly Growing Economy: Sri Lanka
- 9. Social Policies in a Growing Economy: The Role of the State in the Republic of Korea
- 10. Malaysia: Social Development, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Transformation
- 11. Barbados: Social Development in a Small Island State
- 12. Costa Rica: Social Development and Heterodox Adjustment
- 13. Human Development in Cuba: Growing Risk of Reversal
- PART III: CONCLUSION
- 14. Paths to Social Development: Lessons from Case-Studies
- 15. The Links between Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Social Development: Theory and Practice
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