Description
Book SynopsisWritten to provide students with the critical tools and approaches used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses. This new edition includes: updated references to international development policy process and goalssubstantial updates to several chapters with new and revised material to make the text bothcurrent and policy relevantreplacement of several special features with new ones featuringwidely cited studies
Table of ContentsList of Sidebars
List of Figures and Tables
1. What Development Economics Is All About
2. What Works and What Doesn’t?
3. Income
4. Poverty
5. Inequality
6. Human Development
7. Growth
8. Institutions
9. Agriculture
10. Structural Transformation
11. Information and Markets
12. Finance
13. International Trade and Globalization
Epilogue
Notes
Index
