Development Economics Books

The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as the best non-fiction book so far this year by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times.

Deals with issues of minimum wage determination in developing countries examined in the context of Papua New Guinea (PNG). This book discusses the critical issues, process, and actors involved in determination of minimum wage.

Presents tools to analyze growth and related macroeconomic problems. This book offers broad perspectives that are needed to apply those tools to the big-picture questions of growth and divergence.

Shows that economic crises do not necessarily persuade governments to adopt IMF-style economic policies. This book argues that ideology, interests, and institutions, at both the international and domestic levels, mediate responses to such crises.

Explores the dynamics of the innovation process in developing countries with respect to economic growth. This book focuses on the relationship between innovation and economic development from a macroeconomic perspective, with an emphasis on incorporating technological change and intellectual property rights into the theoretical model.

Part of a series concerned with the theoretical, empirical and applied research into the macro and micro accounting issues of developing countries, and the relevance of international accounting standards to the Third World. These essays explore the experience of various Third World nations.

This text is a guide to Africa's economic development and prospects. This second volume applies the theoretical framework and issues of economic liberalization and regional integration to detailed country case studies.

This is a study of the effectiveness of aid that the North provides to help the economic development of the South. The author aims to range over the whole area of Western aid, and present the facts of what has and what has not been achieved. This text, and its data, have been fully revised.

The world economy is changing and nowhere more so than in post-socialist Europe and the developing world. This book assesses the impact of these changes on women, unearthing evidence of gender bias and drawing some telling conclusions.

This text analyzes Malaysia's policies aimed at promoting international trade, economic growth and social welfare. This analysis forms the basis for the formulation of a development strategy that is aimed at enhancing the general welfare of the people as well as promoting economic development.

Volume Two in a series which aims to focus on the specific problems of accounting in developing countries and discuss theoretical, empirical and applied research to the macro and micro accounting issues of developing countries.

The first volume of a comparative study of trade shocks covering 23 countries. This volume examines Africa, and challenges the common generalizations. Trade shocks are shown to lead to high savings rates, though policy errors often mean windfalls actually lead to a reduction in output.

This analysis of the experience of countries involved in major tax reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative country studies and over-arching thematic studies. The emphasis is on the role of fiscal reform in stabilization and structural change.

The economywide policy reform programs that have been undertaken in developing countries in recent years often address macroeconomic problems with little or no regard for their environmental impact, be it positive or negative. This book and its companion volume of case studies demonstrate that there are significant payoffs from a greater understanding of such impacts. The case studies, summarized

This collection looks at regional trade liberalization in South Africa, and argues tht to improve growth performance and stimulate development, governments must co-ordinate domestic policies with trade reforms, and strenghten weak institutions and infrastructures.

This text examines whether authoritarian or democratic governments are best for economic development. Using ten case studies pitting Latin American countries against Southeast Asian ones, the text concludes that political credibility is the key to economic development.

This work presents a study of the potential for a sustainable economy in Norway. It recounts the structure of a project and the results of the analysis, laying particular weight on the fact that a more sustainable economy is clearly possible without serious disruptions of consumption or welfare.

This work analyzes the experience of countries involved in major tax reforms in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s by a combination of qualitative and quantitative country studies and over-arching thematic studies.

Professor Amartya Sen has been a distinguished and influential scholar in development economics for over twenty years, and this edited volume seeks to reflect his interests, and the inspiration he has provided for others. Contributors include: Kenneth Arrow, A. B. Atkinson and Pranab Bardhan.