Name: Issues in Contemporary Economics
ISBN: 978-1-349-11579-2

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Partha Dasgupta⁰

Partha Dasgupta
1. Department of Economics, Cambridge University, UK
  Department of Economics and Philosophy, Stanford University, USA
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Table of contents (18 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxix

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Agriculture
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-1
  
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2. Public Choice, Markets and the Problem of Ensuring an Adequate Minimum Level of Welfare
  
  Edward F. McClennen
  
  Pages 3-23
3. Environmental and Agricultural Issues: What is the Alternative to Public Choice Theory?
  
  Peter Söderbaum
  
  Pages 24-42
4. Public Choice and Agricultural Policy: The Case of the CAP
  
  Konrad Hagedorn
  
  Pages 43-71
5. Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Community
  
  Monika Hartmann, Wilhelm Henrichsmeyer, Peter Michael Schmitz
  
  Pages 72-97
6. Public Choice and Agriculture: An American Example
  
  Gordon Tullock, Jimmye Hillman
  
  Pages 98-118
Food and Nutrition
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 119-119
  
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2. Government Policy, Food Security and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen
  
  Pages 121-147
3. Food Security and Policy Reform in Mali and the Sahel
  
  Josué Dioné
  
  Pages 148-169
4. Food Deprivation and Undernutrition in Rural Bangladesh
  
  Siddiq R. Osmani
  
  Pages 170-190
5. Undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Sex Bias?
  
  Peter Svedberg
  
  Pages 191-213
Trade Policies for Development
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 215-215
  
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2. Real Exchange Rate Policies for Economic Development: A Heterodox Interpretation
  
  Pan A. Yotopoulos
  
  Pages 217-240
3. A Lost Generation? Why Latin American Development Depends on Growth
  
  Clark W. Reynolds
  
  Pages 241-265
4. The Determinants of Manufacturing Exports From Latin America
  
  Simón Teitel
  
  Pages 266-290
5. Recent Industrial Growth and Development in Kenya: Constraints and Prospects for the Future
  
  Eckhard Siggel
  
  Pages 291-311
6. External Debt Service, Growth and Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Triad Plan
  
  Bingu Wa Mutharika
  
  Pages 312-331
Central Planning for Development
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 333-333
  
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2. The Changing Image of Modern Socialism
  
  Oleg T. Bogomolov
  
  Pages 335-348

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This book is Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the World Economic Congress held in Athens in 1989 under the auspices of the International Economic Association. It considers various aspects of economic policy and development faced by countries with different social, cultural and political systems.

Editors and Affiliations

Department of Economics, Cambridge University, UK

Partha Dasgupta
Department of Economics and Philosophy, Stanford University, USA

Partha Dasgupta

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Issues in Contemporary Economics
Book Subtitle: Volume 3: Policy and Development
Editors: Partha Dasgupta
Series Title: International Economic Association Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11579-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-52479-4Published: 09 October 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11579-2Published: 06 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-6330
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 399
Topics: International Economics, International Political Economy
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

Front Matter

Agriculture

Front Matter

Food and Nutrition

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Trade Policies for Development

Front Matter

Central Planning for Development

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Editors and Affiliations

Department of Economics, Cambridge University, UK

Department of Economics and Philosophy, Stanford University, USA

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