This volume is a collection of essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis. The authors address a varied set of specific issues reflecting Professor Lewis' research interests, covering topics which include: technological change in agriculture, and the role of government policy in the development process.

A comparative perspective is employed here to explore the reasons behind, and the lessons to be learned from, Tiawan's remarkable economic growth. Included is insight into its strategy for economic development, the effectiveness of import substitution and the influence of foreign firms on Taiwan.

Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO - that imperil state sovereignty from 'outside' the nation state. The second threat emanates from self-determination movements that jeopardize state sovereignty from 'inside'. Rigorously analyzing popular hypotheses on globalization's effect on state sovereignty from a broad social sciences...

This book presents several general theoretical notions about the process of science and technology as it relates to development. It develops the international dimension of science and technology in terms of the international exchange processes and the appropriateness and modification of technology.

This book provides comparative perspectives on problems of economic development in the 1980s. It emphasizes improvements in economic institutions and policies associated with the development process and employs the comparative historical approach to evaluate dimensions of the development process.