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Written to provide students with the critical tools and approaches
used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics
represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the
subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for
undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of
Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and
methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce
cutting-edge research and present best practices and
state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this
time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding
needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses.
This new edition includes: updated references to international
development policy process and goals substantial updates to several
chapters with new and revised material to make the text both
current and policy relevant replacement of several special features
with new ones featuring widely cited studies
Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today's
development economics research and practice, Essentials of
Development Economics represents an alternative approach to
traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive
than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics
courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad
overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen
easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present
best practices and state-of-the-art methods. Each chapter concludes
with an embedded QR code that connects readers to ancillary
audiovisual materials and supplemental readings on a website
curated by the authors. By mastering the material in this book,
students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to
higher-level development economics courses.
Essentials of Applied Econometrics prepares students for a world in
which more data surround us every day and in which econometric
tools are put to diverse uses. Written for students in economics
and for professionals interested in continuing an education in
econometrics, this succinct text not only teaches best practices
and state-of-the-art techniques, but uses vivid examples and data
obtained from a variety of real world sources. The book's emphasis
on application uniquely prepares the reader for today's econometric
work, which can include analyzing causal relationships or
correlations in big data to obtain useful insights.
The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective explores the unique
character of agricultural labor markets and the implications for
food production, farm worker welfare and advocacy, and immigration
policy. Agricultural labor markets differ from other labor markets
in fundamental ways related to seasonality and uncertainty, and
they evolve differently than other labor markets as economies
develop. We weave economic analysis with the history of
agricultural labor markets using data and real-world events. The
farm labor history of California and the United States is
particularly rich, so it plays a central role in the book, but the
book has a global perspective ensuring its relevance to Europe and
high-income Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide
readers with the basics for understanding how farm labor markets
work (labor in agricultural household models, farm labor supply and
demand, spatial market equilibria); farm labor and immigration
policy; farm labor organizing; farm employment and rural poverty;
unionization and the United Farm Workers movement; the Fair Food
Program as a new approach to collective bargaining; the declining
immigrant farm labor supply; and what economic development in
relatively low-income countries portends for the future of
agriculture in the United States and other high-income countries.
The book concludes with a chapter called "Robots in the Fields,"
which extrapolates current trends to a perhaps not-so-distant
future. The Farm Labor Problem serves as both a guide to policy
makers, farmworker advocates and international development
organizations and as a textbook for students of agricultural
economics and economics.
Written to provide students with the critical tools and approaches
used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics
represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the
subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for
undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of
Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and
methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce
cutting-edge research and present best practices and
state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this
time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding
needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses.
This new edition includes: updated references to international
development policy process and goals substantial updates to several
chapters with new and revised material to make the text both
current and policy relevant replacement of several special features
with new ones featuring widely cited studies
Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today's
development economics research and practice, Essentials of
Development Economics represents an alternative approach to
traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive
than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics
courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad
overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen
easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present
best practices and state-of-the-art methods. Each chapter concludes
with an embedded QR code that connects readers to ancillary
audiovisual materials and supplemental readings on a website
curated by the authors. By mastering the material in this book,
students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to
higher-level development economics courses.
This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a
methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of
development projects and policies on local economies. Projects and
policies often create spillovers within project areas. LEWIE uses
simulation methods to quantify these spillovers. It has become a
complement to randomized control trials (RCTs), as governments and
donors become interested in documenting impacts beyond the treated,
comparing the likely impacts of alternative interventions, and
designing complementary interventions to influence program and
policy impacts. It is also a tool for impact evaluation where RCTs
are not feasible. Chapters 1-4 motivate and present the basics of
impact simulation, including how to design a LEWIE model, how to
estimate the model, and how to obtain the necessary data. The
remaining chapters provide a diversity of interesting real-world
applications and extensions of the basic models. The applications
include evaluations of the impacts of cash transfers for the poor,
ecotourism, global food-price shocks, irrigation projects,
migration, and corruption. Each chapter provide readers with the
tools they need to conduct their own local economy-wide impact
evaluations. All models and data used in this book are available
on-line.
Most of the world's population and the vast majority of the world's
poor live and work in villages. Their activities are usually
centred in households, but interactions among households shape the
impacts of policy, market and environmental changes on rural
production, incomes, employment and migration. This book presents a
generation of villagewide economic modelling designed to capture
these interactions when assessing the impacts of policy, market and
environmental changes on rural economies in less developed
countries. The authors present a general framework for modelling
village economies based on computable general-equilibrium
techniques, estimate models for villages and a village-town in five
different countries, and use these models to conduct a series of
comparative experiments. The findings offer explanations for some
paradoxical outcomes of exogenous shocks as their influence winds
its way through rural economies, and they underline the importance
of adopting a local economy-wide perspective when designing
development policies.
At the end of the 20th century nearly all developed nations have
become countries of immigration, absorbing growing numbers of
immigrants not only from developed regions, but increasingly from
developing nations of the Third World. Although international
migration has come to play a central role in the social, economic,
and demographic dynamics of both immigrant-sending and
immigrant-receiving countries, social scientists have been slow to
construct a comprehensive theory to explain it. Efforts at
theoretical explanation have been fragmented by disciplinary,
geographic, and methodological boundaries. Worlds in Motion seeks
to overcome these schisms to create a comprehensive theory of
international migration for the next century. After explicating the
various propositions and hypotheses of current theories, and
identifying area of complementarity and conflict, the authors
review empirical research emanating from each of the world's
principal international migration systems: North America, Western
Europe, the Gulf, Asia and the Pacific, and the Southern Cone of
South America. Using data from the 1980s, levels and patterns of
migration within each system are described to define their
structure and organization. Specific studies are then
comprehensively surveyed to evaluate the fundamental propositions
of neoclassical economics, the new economics of labour migration,
segmented labour market theory, world systems theory, social
capital theory, and the theory of cumulative causation. The various
theories are also tested by applying them to the relationship
between international migration and economic development. Although
certain theories seem to function more effectively in certain
systems, all contain elements of truth supported by empirical
research. The task of the theorist is thus to identify which
theories are most effective in accounting for international
migration in the world today, and what regional and national
circumstances lead to a predominance of one theoretical mechanism
over another. The book concludes by offering an
empirically-grounded theoretical synthesis to serve as a guide for
researchers and policy-makers in the 21st century.
International Migration: Prospects and Policies offers a
comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of
international migration and the policies employed to manage the
flows. It shows that international migration is not rooted in
poverty or rapid population growth, but in the expansion and
consolidation of global markets. As nations are structurally
transformed by their incorporation into global markets, people are
displaced from traditional livelihoods and become international
migrants. In seeking to work abroad, they do not necessarily move
to the closest or richest destination, but to places already
connected to their countries of origin socially, economically, and
politically. When they move, migrants rely heavily on social
networks created by earlier waves of immigrants, and, in recent
years, professional migration brokers have become increasingly
common. Developing countries generally benefit from international
migration because migrant savings and remittances provide foreign
earnings to finance balance of payments deficits and make
productive investments. Some developing nations have gone so far as
to establish programs or ministries dedicated to the export of
workers. Developed nations, in contrast, focus more on the social
and economic costs of immigrants and seek to reduce their numbers,
regulate their characteristics, and limit their access to social
services. Over time, receiving nations have gravitated toward a
similar set of restrictive policies, yielding undocumented
migration as a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization also creates
infrastructures of transportation, communication, and social
networks to put developed societies within reach. In the latter,
ageing populations and segmenting markets create a persistent
demand for immigrant workers. All these trends are likely to
intensify in the coming years to make immigration policy a key
political issue in the twenty-first century.
The twentieth century has seen immense worldwide shifts in population. Whether it is Europe to North America, The Carribean to the United Kingdom, or East Asia to Australia, migration is one of the major factors that influences the global political and economic situation. By applying systematic theoretical frameworks to detailed empirical data, Worlds in Motion provides a unique overview of not only where migration occurs, and how it works, but crucially details the major factors that influence international population movement.
Most of the world's population and the vast majority of the world's poor live and work in villages. Their activities are usually centered in households, but interactions among households shape the impacts of policy, market, and environmental changes on rural production, incomes, employment, and migration. This book presents a new generation of villagewide economic modeling designed to capture these interactions when assessing the impacts of policy, market and environmental changes on rural economies in less-developed countries. The authors present a general framework for modeling village economies based on computable general-equilibrium techniques, estimate models for villages and a village-town in five different countries, and use these models to conduct a series of comparative experiments.
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