Development economics : a critical introduction

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Development economics : a critical introduction

Shahrukh Rafi Khan

(Routledge textbooks in development economics, 3)

Routledge, 2020

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline. Economic development lends itself ideally to meet this demand, yet most undergraduate textbooks do not reflect this. This book will fill this gap, presenting all the core material needed to teach development economics in a one semester course, while also addressing the need for a new economics and offering flexibility to instructors. Rather than taking the typical approach of organizing by topic, the book uses theories and debates to guide its structure. This will allow students to see different perspectives on key development questions, and therefore to understand more fully the contested nature of many key areas of development economics. The book can be used as a standalone textbook on development economics, or to accompany a more traditional text.

Table of Contents

Part I: Background 1: Introduction 2: Data and their use in development economics 3: Commonalities and differences among low and low middle income countries 4: Poverty, inequality and some proposed solutions Part II: Key approaches to economic development and the middle income trap 5: Classical and radical antecedents of development economics 6: Developmentalists and developmentalism 7: Neo-Marxism, structuralism and dependency theory 8: Neoliberalism and its critics 9: New developmentalism: industrial policy, policy space and premature deindustrialization debates 10: Is there a middle income trap? Part III: How key approaches play into some key debates 11: Debates on foreign aid 12: Debates on foreign direct investment 13: Debates on agriculture/sustainable agriculture 14: Debates on technology and addressing environmental problems/green industrial policy Part IV: Conclusion 15: Catch-up growth: finding a trigger

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