Growth and development : with special reference to developing economies / A.P. Thirlwall.

List of figures, xv -- List of tables, xviii -- List of boxes, xxi -- Preface to the seventh edition, xxii Part I. Development and underdevelopment -- The study of economic development, 3 -- 2. The development gap and the measurement of poverty, 25 -- 3. The characteristics of underdevelopment and structural change, 71 -- 4. Theories of economic growth: why growth rates differ between countries, 126 -- Part II. Factors in the development process -- 5. Land, labour and agriculture, 189 -- 6. Capital and technical progress, 237 -- Part III. Obstacles to development -- 7. Dualism, centre-periphery models and the process of cumulative causation, 263 -- 8. Population and development, 291 -- 9. Resource allocation in developing countries: the market mechanism and the role of the state, 327 -- 10. Project appraisal, social cost-benefit analysis and shadow wages, 373 -- 11. Development and the environment, 399 -- 12. The choice of techniques, 432 -- 13. Input-output analysis, 453 -- Part V. Financing economic development -- 14. Financing development from domestic resources, 483 -- 15. Foreign assistance, debt and development, 547 -- Part VI. International trade, the balance of payments and development -- 16. Trade and development, 617 -- 17. The balance of payments, international monetary assistance and development, 687 -- References and further reading, 737 -- Index names, 772 -- Subject index, 780 -- Geographical index, 811.