Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended
to avoid significant economic content. However, without an
understanding of the economic aspects of international development
many of the more complex issues cannot be fully comprehended.
Economics and Development Studies makes the economic dimension of
discourse around controversial issues in international development
accessible to second and third year undergraduate students working
towards degrees in development studies.
Following an introductory chapter outlining the connections
between development economics and development studies this book
consists of eight substantive chapters dealing with the nature of
development economics, economic growth and structural change,
economic growth and developing countries, economic growth and
economic development since 1960, the global economy and the third
world, developing countries and international trade, economics and
development policy, and poverty, equality and development
economists, with a tenth concluding chapter.
This book synthesizes existing development economics literature
in order to identify the salient issues and controversies and make
them accessible and understandable. The concern is to distinguish
differences within the economics profession, and between economists
and non-economists, so that the reader can make informed judgments
about the sources of these differences, and about their impact on
policy analysis and policy advice. The book features explanatory
text boxes, tables and diagrams, suggestions for further reading,
and a listing of the economic concepts used in the chapters.
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