Development economics and structuralist macroeconomics : essays in honor of Lance Taylor /

Lance Taylor is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent development economists in the world and is known for his work on development planning, macroeconomics of development, stabilization policy, and the global economy. He has also been the major force behind structuralist economics, which is...

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Other Authors: Dutt, Amitava Krishna, ed, Ros, Jaime, ed
Format: Book
Published: Cheltenham : E. Elgar, 2003
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1: Introduction
  • 1. Development economics and political economy / Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jaime Ros
  • Pt. 2: Approaches to development and planning
  • 2. Modeling economic growth with GAMS / P. Ruben Mercado, Lihui Lin and David A. Kendrick
  • 3. An essay on late structuralism / Bill Gibson
  • 4. Poverty is not destiny: comparative life expectancy in Africa / F. Desmond McCarthy and Holger Wolf
  • 5. The political economy of exclusion and inclusion: democracy, markets and people / Deepak Nayyar
  • Pt. 3: Finance and asset markets
  • 6. Finance and competition / William Darity, Jr., Bobbie L. Horn and Michael Syron Lawlor
  • 7. The macroeconomic role of speculative assets under import compression and financial repression / Jorn Rattso
  • 8. Financial fragility in developing economies / Duncan K. Foley
  • 9. Selling the family silver or privatization for capital inflows: the dual dynamics of the balance of payments and the exchange rate / Amit Bhaduri
  • Pt. 4: Stabilization, adjustment and growth
  • 10. Brazil's Plano Real: a view from the inside / Edmar L. Bacha
  • 11. The two waves of financial liberalization in Latin America / Roberto Frenkel and Lucio Simpson
  • 12. Inflation, stabilization and growth: multiple equilibria in a structuralist model / Jaime Ros
  • Pt. 5: Beyond neo-liberalism: the firm, industrial policy and competitiveness
  • 13. Bringing the firm back in / Helen Shapiro
  • 14. 'Getting the structure "right"':upscaling in a prime latecomer / Alice H. Amsden and Wan-Wen Chu
  • 15. Micro-macro interactions, competitiveness and sustainability / José María Fanelli
  • Pt. 6: The north, the south and globalization
  • 16. Income elasticities of imports, North-South trade and uneven development / Amitava Krishna Dutt
  • 17. Towards balance in aid relationships: donor performance monitoring in low-income developing countries / Gerry Helleiner
  • 18. The challenges facing ineternational financial regulation / John Eatwell
  • 19. Developing countries' anti-cyclical policies in a globalized world / José Antonio Ocampo
  • 20. Institutional challenges of globalization and the developing countries / Andrés Solimano.