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This book looks at Japan's early economic modernization to see if
today's low-income countries can learn any lessons. The author
focuses on education, technology policy, capital formation, the
transfer of savings from agriculture to industry, state aid to the
private sector, improvement engineering in the informal sector, low
wages, industrial dualism, export expansion, and resistance to
Western imperialism (a strategy which included acquiring its own
empire) under Japan's "guided capitalism". He criticizes
modernization scholars for underemphasizing the damage of
imperialism and the importance of economic autonomy and
technological learning, the dependency school for prescribing trade
reduction and neglecting market exchange-rate policies, and
world-system theorists for rejecting the possibility of global
economic growth.
This book looks at Japan's early economic modernization to see if
today's low-income countries can learn any lessons. The author
focuses on education, technology policy, capital formation, the
transfer of savings from agriculture to industry, state aid to the
private sector, improvement engineering in the informal sector, low
wages, industrial dualism, export expansion, and resistance to
Western imperialism (a strategy which included acquiring its own
empire) under Japan's "guided capitalism."
This study in economic and financial analysis looks at industrial
entrepreneurs during India's liberalization. Topics addressed
include: the founding entrepreneurs - origins, education and
capital; and social mobility, human capital, liberalization and
entrepreneurship.
Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies, and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long-term development policies rather than mediation or reconstruction after the conflict ensues. Policies include democratization, reforming institutions, strengthening civil society, improving the state's administrative capability, agrarian reform, accelerating economic growth through stabilization and adjustment, reducing inequalities, and redesigning aid to be more stable.
"E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia,
Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. The book is
suitable for those with a background in economics principles.
Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India,
Poland, Brazil, China, and other Pacific Rim countries, and the
slow, yet essential, growth for a turnaround of sub-Saharan Africa.
The fifth edition of the text, written by a scholar of developing
countries, is replete with real-world examples and up-to-date
information. Nafziger discusses poverty, income inequality, hunger,
unemployment, the environment and carbon-dioxide emissions, and the
widening gap between rich (including middle-income) and poor
countries. Other new components include the rise and fall of models
based on Russia, Japan, China/Taiwan/Korea, and North America;
randomized experiments to assess aid; an exploration of whether
information technology and mobile phones can provide poor countries
with a shortcut to prosperity; and a discussion of how worldwide
financial crises, debt, and trade and capital markets affect
developing countries"--
This two-volume work examines the causes of civil war and consequent humanitarian emergencies in developing countries. Twenty-three international experts explain why wars start and how to prevent them--offering a less costly alternative to the present reactive strategy of the world community to provide mediation, relief, and rehabilitation after the conflict occurs. The volumes provide a general framework which is applied to such recent conflicts as those in Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, the Congo, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus.
This two-volume work examines the causes of civil war and consequent humanitarian emergencies in developing countries. Twenty-three international experts explain why wars start and how to prevent them--offering a less costly alternative to the present reactive strategy of the world community to provide mediation, relief, and rehabilitation after the conflict occurs. The volumes provide a general framework which is applied to such recent conflicts as those in Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, the Congo, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus.
This study of inequality in Africa, first published in 1988, not
only rejected the orthodox approach of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund, which neglected income distribution
and advocated greater external economic reliance, but also the
statist Lagos Plan of Action, which supported comprehensive
planning, large capital-intensive state firms, and increased
government intervention in peasant prices. Wayne Nafziger's
political economy analysis shows how the colonial legacy, the
contemporary global economic system, and the ruling elites'
policies of co-opting labour, favouring urban areas, distributing
benefits communally, and spending on education to maintain
inter-generational class exacerbate discrepancies between regions,
urban and rural areas, and bourgeoisie and workers, even under
'African socialism'. The author's policy discussion eschews
technoeconomic solutions, arguing that reducing inequality requires
democratising political participation as well as economic control.
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