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Title

Development, duality, and the international economic regime : essays in honor of Gustav Ranis / Gary R. Saxonhouse and T.N. Srinivasan, editors.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Ranis, Gustav.
• Saxonhouse, Gary R.
• Srinivasan, T. N., 1933-2018.

Description

viii, 496 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• When Gustav Ranis began his scholarly career in the field of economic development, the global economy presented a landscape of widely contrasting conditions. Almost two-thirds of the global population was ill-fed, ill-housed, illiterate, and lacking access to proper medical care.
• Today, four decades later, while standards of living have generally improved and some areas of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East have joined the highly productive economies, the gap between the wealthy few and the rest of the world has widened.
• In a much-needed effort to assess the current issues facing developing countries and development economics, Ranis's former students, present and past colleagues at Yale, and fellow development economists honor him with this volume.
• Contributors examine and evaluate four areas of concern: duality and the evolution of labor markets in developing economies; trade, technological transfer, and economic development; the international economic regime and economic development; and finance and economic development.

Subjects

• East Asia > Economic policy > Case studies > Congresses
• Economic development > Effect of education on > Developing countries > Congresses
• Ranis, Gustav > Congresses
• Labor market > Developing countries > Congresses
• Technology transfer > Developing countries > Congresses
• Economic development > Congresses
• Income distribution > Developing countries > Congresses
• International economic relations > Congresses

Note

• Based on the proceedings of a conference hosted by Yale's Economic Growth Center, held in May 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Gary R. Saxonhouse and T. N. Srinivasan. 1. The Evolution of Development Economics and Gustav Ranis's Role / Albert Berry and Frances Stewart -- Pt. 1. Duality and the Evolution of Labor Markets in Developing Economies. 2. Duality and Development: Some Reflections on Economic Policy / Joseph E. Stiglitz. 3. Community Mechanism of Employment and Wage Determination: Classical or Neoclassical? / Yujiro Hayami. 4. Schooling, Economic Growth, and Aggregate Data / Mark R. Rosenzweig. 5. Changing Income Inequality in Taiwan: A Decomposition Analysis / Gary S. Fields and Jennifer C. O'Hara Mitchell -- Pt. 2. Trade, Technological Transfer, and Economic Development. 6. Trade Orientation, Trade Liberalization, and Economic Growth / T. N. Srinivasan. 7. Firm Competencies, Technological Catch-up, and the Asian Miracle / Richard R. Nelson and Howard Pack. 8. Factor Proportions and Industrial Development in China / Keijiro Otsuka.
• 9. Economic Development and the Art of Maintenance / Mark Gersovitz -- Pt. 3. The International Economic Regime and Economic Development. 10. The Economic Consequences of a Declining Hegemon / Koichi Hamada. 11. Technological Specialization in International Patenting / Jonathan Eaton, Robert Evenson and Samuel Kortum [et al.]. 12. Can Agricultural Genetic Resources Be a Bonanza for the South? / Brian D. Wright. 13. When Are Voluntary Import Expansions Voluntary? / Gary R. Saxonhouse -- Pt. 4. Finance and Economic Development. 14. Nominal Anchor Exchange Rate Policies as a Domestic Distortion / Anne O. Krueger. 15. Aspects of Fiscal Performance in Some Transition Economies under Fund-Supported Programs / Willem H. Buiter. 16. Foreign Aid and Fiscal Stress / Howard Pack and Janet Rothenberg Pack.

ISBN

0472109820 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98045155

OCLC

• 39913824
• ocm39913824

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries