Alternative Strategies for Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9780312223403 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 300 str.

Keith B. Griffin; Keith B. Griffin; Louis Emmerij

Opis

The question of alternative strategies for economic development is the subject of great controversy and intense debate amongst practitioners and academics concerned with economic and social progress in the Third World. The core of this book is an analysis of the six most widely adopted strategies of development namely monetarism, the open economy, industrialisation, the green revolution or agriculture-led development, redistributive strategies of development and socialist strategies.

Spis treści

List of Tables List of Figures Preface Development in Historical Context Many Paths to Development Monetarism The Open Economy Industrialisation The Green Revolution Strategy Redistributive Strategies Socialist Strategies of Development The Strategies Compared Index

O autorze

KEITH GRIFFIN is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. He was formerly President of Magdalen College, Oxford. He has served as an adviser and consultant to various governments, international agencies and academic institutions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He is the author or co-author of over twenty books in development studies, including Studies in Globalization and Economic Transitions.