Part 1: Principles and Concepts
Chapter 1: Introducing Economic Development: A Global
Perspective
Chapter 2: Comparative Economic Development
Chapter 3: Classic Theories of Economic Growth and Development
Chapter 4: Contemporary Models of Development and
Underdevelopment
Part 2: Problems and Policies: Domestic
Chapter 5: Poverty, Inequality, and Development
Chapter 6: Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes,
Consequences, and Controversies
Chapter 7: Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and
Policy
Chapter 8: Human Capital: Education and Health in Economic
Development
Chapter 9: Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development
Chapter 10: The Environment and Development
Chapter 11: Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market,
State, and Civil Society
Part 3: Problems and Policies: International and Macro
Chapter 12: International Trade Theory and Development Strategy
Chapter 13: Balance of Payments, Debt, Financial Crises, and
Stabilization Policies
Chapter 14: Foreign Finance, Investment, and Aid: Controversies and
Opportunities
Chapter 15: Finance and Fiscal Policy for Development
Michael P. Todaro was Professor of Economics at New York
University for eighteen years and Senior Associate at the
Population Council for twenty years. He lived and taught in Africa
for six years. He appears in Who's Who in Economics and Economists
of the Twentieth Century. He is also the author of eight books and
more than fifty professional articles. In a special February 2011
centenary edition, the American Economic Review selected Todaro’s
article “Migration, Unemployment and Development: A 2-Sector
Analysis” (with J. Harris) as one of the twenty most important
articles published by that journal during the first one hundred
years of its existence.
Stephen C. Smith is Director of the Institute for
International Economic Policy and Professor of Economics and
International Affairs at George Washington University. He received
his PhD in economics from Cornell University. Smith is author of
Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works, co-editor of NGOs and
the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty,
and author or coauthor of some three dozen journal articles.
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