TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thirlwall, Anthony P.
TI  - Growth and development: with special reference to developing economies 
SN  - 033398089
AV  - HD 82 .T45 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Desarrollo económico
KW  - Condiciones económicas
KW  - Países en desarrollo
N1  - 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
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