Economic Development

by Michael Todaro, Stephen Smith

Overview

Economic Development, the leading textbook in this field, provides you 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, to show how theory relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781292291154
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	04/24/2020
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	928
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.90(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 thirty 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.

Stephen C. Smith is 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

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

5 Poverty, Inequality, and Development
6 Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes,Consequences, and Controversies
7 Urbanisation 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
12 International Trade Theory and Development Strategy
13 Balance of Payments, Debt, Financial Crises, and Sustainable Recovery: Cases and Policies
14 Foreign Finance, Investment, Aid, and Conflict: Controversies and Opportunities
15 Finance and Fiscal Policy for Development