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Economic Development / Edition 11

Economic Development / Edition 11

Economic Development / Edition 11
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ISBN-10:
0138013888
ISBN-13:
9780138013882
Pub. Date:
03/30/2011
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
ISBN-10:
0138013888
ISBN-13:
9780138013882
Pub. Date:
03/30/2011
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
Economic Development / Edition 11

Economic Development / Edition 11

Overview

For courses on economic development

A complete, balanced introduction to the theory, issues, and latest research.


Economic Development, Twelfth Edition—the leading textbook in this field—provides students with a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, driving policy issues, and latest research. Todaro and Smith take a policy-oriented approach, presenting economic theory in the context of critical policy debates and country-specific case studies so you can see how theory relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries.


Teaching and Learning Experiences

This program presents a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students.

  • Use the text’s Hallmark Approach to presenting engaging information: Shaped by the authors’ personalities, this approach is backed up with extensive research and travel to provide the best data possible.
  • Teach with strong pedagogy tools: The text reinforces central key concepts by presenting a clear learning path for students.
  • Give students a real-world global perspective: Students are able togain a unique perspective about world issues from two authors who strive to address different sides to problems.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780138013882
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication date: 03/30/2011
Pages: 832
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Michael P. Todaro was Professor of Economics at New York University for eighteen years and Senior Associate at the Population Council for twenty years. He lived and taught in Africa for six years. He appears in Who's Who in Economics and Economists of the Twentieth Century. He is also the author of eight books and more than fifty professional articles. In a special February 2011 centenary edition, the American Economic Review selected Todaro’s article “Migration, Unemployment and Development: A 2-Sector Analysis” (with J. Harris) as one of the twenty most important articles published by that journal during the first one hundred years of its existence.

Stephen C. Smith is Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University. Smith is author of Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works, co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, and author or coauthor of some three dozen journal articles.

Table of Contents

I. Principles and Concepts
1. Introducing Economic Development: A Global Perspective
2. Comparative Economic Development
3. Classic Theories of Economic Growth and Development
4. Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment

II. Problems and Policies: Domestic
5. Poverty, Inequality, and Development
6. Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes, Consequences, and Controversies
7. Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and Policy
8. Human Capital: Education and Health in Economic Development
9. Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development
10. The Environment and Development
11. Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market, State, and Civil Society

III. Problems and Policies: International and Macro
12. International Trade Theory and Development Strategy
13. Balance of Payments, Debt, Financial Crises, and Stabilization Policies
14. Foreign Finance, Investment, Aid, and Conflict: Controversies and Opportunities
15. Finance and Fiscal Policy for Development

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