Employment, Growth and Development: Essays on a Changing World Economy

ISBN-13: 9780367279691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Deepak Nayyar

Opis

This book examines the critical themes of employment, growth and development, to focus on challenges and opportunities, both old and new, in the contemporary world economy. The essential theme that runs through the book is that there is a strong relationship not only between employment and growth but also between employment and development.

O autorze

Deepak Nayyar is Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he taught Economics for 25 years, and was until recently Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York. Earlier, he taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi (2000–2005). He also served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance (1989–1991). He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, from where he has a D.Phil. in Economics, and is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has published widely in academic journals. His books include Catch Up: Developing Countries in the World Economy (2013).