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020 _a9780195215922
020 _a0195215923
082 _a338.9
_bMEI
100 _aMeier, Gerald M. (Editor)
245 _aFrontiers of development economics : the future in perspective
260 _aWashington, D.C. : World Bank ; Oxford ; New York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c©2001.
300 _ax, 575 pages :
_billustrations ;
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aThe old generation of development economists and the new / Gerald M. Meier -- On the goals of development / Kaushik Basu -- Fallacies in development theory and their implications for policy / Irma Adelman -- Revisiting the challenge of development / Vinod Thomas -- The evolution of thinking about poverty: exploring the interactions / Ravi Kanbur and Lyn Squire -- Development issues: settled and open / Shahid Yusuf and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Distributive conflicts, collective action, and institutional economics / Pranab Bardhan -- Historical perspectives on development / Nicholas Crafts -- In quest of the political: the political economy of development policymaking / Merilee S. Grindle -- Modern economic theory and development / Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
520 _aCo-edited by the Vice President of the World Bank, this volume offers work from a generation of thinkers in development economics.
650 _aDevelopment economics.
700 _aStiglitz, Joseph E. (Editor)
942 _cREF
999 _c38664
_d38664