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Since the 1940s, development thinking has been the subject of
fierce debate and continual evolution. The authors of this book
trace the ideas that have driven changing approaches to
development, focusing also on the Prebisch-Singer Thesis, which
seeks to explain the widening gaps between rich and poor nations,
caused by unequal distribution of trade benefits. They discuss both
aid during and after the cold war, and the rise and subsequent
liberalisation crisis of the Asian 'Tiger Economies'. The Economic
North-South Divide goes on to explore the structural roots of the
debt crisis and considers the impact of debt management on
North-South economic relations, exposing certain double standards
that tilt global markets further against the South. Encouraged by
recent successful opposition to neoliberalism, the authors finally
propose ideas for a world where people seem to matter. This book is
a welcome addition to the debate and will appeal to anyone
interested in economic development and history.
Since the 1940s, development thinking has been the subject of
fierce debate and continual evolution. The authors of this book
trace the ideas that have driven changing approaches to
development, focusing also on the Prebisch-Singer Thesis, which
seeks to explain the widening gaps between rich and poor nations,
caused by unequal distribution of trade benefits. They discuss both
aid during and after the cold war, and the rise and subsequent
liberalisation crisis of the Asian 'Tiger Economies'. The Economic
North-South Divide goes on to explore the structural roots of the
debt crisis and considers the impact of debt management on
North-South economic relations, exposing certain double standards
that tilt global markets further against the South. Encouraged by
recent successful opposition to neoliberalism, the authors finally
propose ideas for a world where people seem to matter. This book is
a welcome addition to the debate and will appeal to anyone
interested in economic development and history.
Economic Progress and Prospects in the Third World combines an
elegant and persuasive summary of development progress over the
last 40 years with detailed case studies of two major developing
countries, Nigeria and India.Beginning with an overview of changes
in development theory and practice since 1945, the book
distinguishes three main phases: the 'Golden Age' of the 1950s and
1960s, the illusory debt-led growth of the 1970s, and the 'Lost
Decade' of the 1980s. It explains how successes in some of the
earlier phases led to difficulties later on. The authors then
describe the specific ways in which these changes have affected two
nations: Nigeria, a relatively open economy, India, a relatively
closed economy. In conclusion, they draw on the lessons of global
and domestic development for a discussion of prospects in the
1990s. This important study will prove invaluable to policymakers
and economists who seek to use the experience of the past to solve
the problems of the future.
In The Foreign Aid Business, Kunibert Raffer and Hans Singer offer
an incisive analysis of aid and development finance, examine the
key issues and new trends in aid as well as proposing a series of
fundamental improvements. Distinguishing clearly between 'aid' and
'help' in development finance, the authors discuss aid in the
context of other North-South flows, such as trade or debt service,
and describe its role and evolution during the Cold War. They
address in detail issues such as food aid, the European Union's
Lome co-operation, Japan's emergence as the largest donor and its
specific aid philosophy, the often neglected question of
South-South aid and the role of non-governmental organizations. The
new trends analyzed in this book include political conditionality,
the UNDP's proposal to reorient aid towards human development and
the question of aid diversion to the former communist countries.
The Foreign Aid Business concludes by proposing a series of
innovative reforms for development aid and finance. The authors
advocate major improvements which include combining emergency and
development aid, the financial accountability of donors,
international insolvency to stop aid bailing-out creditors and the
emulation of the Marshall pla's successful self-monitoring by
recipients. Combining a sophisticated analysis of current issues
and trends with innovative new ideas for raising the effectiveness
of development aid and finance, this substantial new book will be
welcomed by academic scholars, policymakers and practitioners as a
major contribution to our understanding of the foreign aid
business.
This volume contains 21 selected essays by Professor Sir Hans
Singer written over the last two decades. The volume addresses:-
development economics in historical perspective and considers where
it stands today the early pioneers of 'development' thinking
including Smith and Keynes growth, industrialization and trade
current questions of the terms of trade debate and import
substitution North-South and South-South linkages foreign aid The
author gives grateful thanks to Matthew Morris and Hans Ulrich
Esslinger for their contributions to this book.
The process of globalization can be seen in the increase of: trade
interdependence, the importance of global multinational
corporations, mobility and volatility of capital flows (with
dangers demonstrated by the recent Mexican crisis). This
globalization creates both dangers and new opportunities, both
winners and losers. The parallel growth of regional blocs is
equally hazardous, particularly for countries left outside the
regional blocs. The book, with contributions by eminent experts,
describes the impact of both globalization and regionalization and
the relationship between these two dominant trends.
The process of globalization can be seen in the increase of: trade
interdependence, the importance of global multinational
corporations, mobility and volatility of capital flows (with
dangers demonstrated by the recent Mexican crisis). This
globalization creates both dangers and new opportunities, both
winners and losers. The parallel growth of regional blocs is
equally hazardous, particularly for countries left outside the
regional blocs. The book, with contributions by eminent experts,
describes the impact of both globalization and regionalization and
the relationship between these two dominant trends.
Examines the borderline between traditional economic theory and the
particular problems of developing countries. The ethics of
redistribution, and the impact on the development process of the
interaction between national state bureaucracy and international
institutions are considered.
The most pressing problem for most developing countries is how to
reverse the adverse trends of the 1980s and create the conditions
for sustainable development. The contributors to this volume bring
a great variety of experience, background and interest to bear on
this issue. Considerable attention is given to the design of
appropriate structural adjustment programmes and the role of debt
reduction, food aid and the European Community in this context. The
need for an adaptive evolutionary approach to problems of
development is, perhaps, the central theme to the volume.
The contributors to this volume bring a variety of experience,
background and interest to bear on this issue and considerable
attention is given to the design of appropriate structural
adjustment programmes as well as the role of debt reduction, food
aid and the European Community in this context. Other important
issues discussed include: the link between dependent development
and enviornmental degredation, the woodfuel crisis, the political
economy of rural development, the transfer of institutional
innovations; the role of women's organizations in development and
foreign direct investment by newly industrialized countries. An
important overall theme which emerges from this book is that there
is a need for an adaptive evolutionary approach to problems of
development.
The papers presented here were first given at the International
Conference of Economists at the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia.
The book contains a rare selection of divergent theoretical and
practical views on the acute problem of international debt and its
repercussions on world economic growth at large and the developing
countries in particular.
The papers presented here were first given at the International
Conference of Economists at the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia.
The book contains a rare selection of divergent theoretical and
practical views on the acute problem of international debt and its
repercussions on world economic growth at large and the developing
countries in particular.
In The Foreign Aid Business, Kunibert Raffer and Hans Singer offer
an incisive analysis of aid and development finance, examine the
key issues and new trends in aid as well as proposing a series of
fundamental improvements. Distinguishing clearly between 'aid' and
'help' in development finance, the authors discuss aid in the
context of other North-South flows, such as trade or debt service,
and describe its role and evolution during the Cold War. They
address in detail issues such as food aid, the European Union's
Lome co-operation, Japan's emergence as the largest donor and its
specific aid philosophy, the often neglected question of
South-South aid and the role of non-governmental organizations. The
new trends analyzed in this book include political conditionality,
the UNDP's proposal to reorient aid towards human development and
the question of aid diversion to the former communist countries.
The Foreign Aid Business concludes by proposing a series of
innovative reforms for development aid and finance. The authors
advocate major improvements which include combining emergency and
development aid, the financial accountability of donors,
international insolvency to stop aid bailing-out creditors and the
emulation of the Marshall pla's successful self-monitoring by
recipients. Combining a sophisticated analysis of current issues
and trends with innovative new ideas for raising the effectiveness
of development aid and finance, this substantial new book will be
welcomed by academic scholars, policymakers and practitioners as a
major contribution to our understanding of the foreign aid
business.
Drawings of A. Von Menzel
By Pr. HW Singer
Excerpt
FOR two or three decades Menzel was a member of the Institut de
France and an Officer of the Legion of Honour, as well as a member
of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal
Academy of London. Yet, outside his own country, he was scarcely
more than a name, except, perhaps, to the presidents and leading
officers of such bodies as I have mentioned. Not long ago I found a
French critic attempting to expound Menzel to his countrymen, and
he had so far misapprehended his hero that he tried to make him out
a sort of excellent German Meissonier. In England, too, he may be
put on a line with the League of Cambrai, the Peace of Munster, the
Cabal, and other such names, which you at once recognise as very
important when you hear them mentioned, but about which you cannot
for the life of you remember details and dates. Almost ninety years
ago, upon the 8th of December, 1815, Menzel saw the light of day in
Breslau. This city was for a long time the third largest of the
German Empire, without any attractions to match its size.
Menzel's father, originally principal of a girls' seminary, set up
a lithographic establishment, in which the lad at an early age
found an opportunity of coming into touch with the fine arts. His
parents decreed that he should become a scholar, but there were
many hindrances in the way of his turning student; and since he had
evinced a desire to draw as soon as ever he could hold a pencil, it
was easy to prepare him for the work of a practitioner in the
lesser arts, if not indeed for an artist.
When Menzel was fourteen years of age his father sold his business
at Breslau and migrated to Berlin. Here, too, he occupied himself
with lithographic work, in which he was assisted by his son. The
family had scarcely been a year and a half in the capital when the
father died - in January, 1832. Menzel, only sixteen years of age,
was now thrown entirely upon his own resources, and, moreover, had
to help towards the support of his nearest relatives. For the sake
of a living he executed vignettes for tradesmen's bills,
letter-headings, designs for stencils, bottle-labels and similar
hack-work, and a long period of privation and plodding began for
him.
What he did at that time gave indication of what there was in the
man. For where another would simply have satisfied the crude
demands of the trade, he strove conscientiously to do his best and
to give his customers more than their money's worth. Many of his
early invitation and congratulatory cards, title pages and
ephemeral designs are full of happy notions and clever allusions.
Instinctively he felt that black-and-white art is a medium that
lends itself to argument
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