Economic Development: Theory And Policy Applications [Hardcover]

Economists are being asked to provide explanations and prescriptive policy for addressing the questions of chronic poverty and underdevelopment in the world. Answers are needed not only for the questions of how and why these problems arise, but also whether the problems can be prevented and how the problems can be approached. This book is an exposition to the student, the researcher, and the practitioner in the field of economic development giving an approach from the basic rudiments to the advanced level and bridging the gap between the neoclassical models of growth and development and the modern structuralist approaches to the study and analyses of economic development.FIDELIS EZEALA-HARRISON is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Ezeala-Harrison is the author of many journal articles on economic development and is co-editor ofPerspectives on Economic Development in Africa(Praeger, 1994).

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Definition of Economic Development
Economic Growth and Development--Concepts and Measurement
A Global Profile of Development and Underdevelopment
History of Economic Development and Underdevelopment
Theories of Economic Growth and Development
The Classical Theories of Economic Growth and Development
The Neoclassical Theories of Economic Growth and Development
The Structuralist Theories of Economic Development
Process of Economic Development--Internal Dimensions
Capital Accumulation and the Process of Development
Population and Human Resources in Development
Industrialization in the Process of Development
Environmental Issues in the Process of Economic Development
Development Planning and Policy Issues
Process of Economic Development--External Dimensions
International Trade and Economic Development
Role of Free Trade and Regional Integration
International Finance and Economic Development
Index