Todaro, Micheal P. creator Smith, Micheal P. text xxu Harlow Pearson c2006 9th ed. monographic eng

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xxvii, 851 p.: ill.; 23cm. Contents: Principles and concepts: Economics, institutions, and development: A Global perspective -- Comparative development: Differences and commonalities among developing countries -- Classic theories of economic development -- Contemporary models of development and underdevelopment -- Problems and policies: Domestic: Poverty, inequality, and development -- Population growth and economic development: causes, consequences, and controversies -- Urbanization and rural-urban migration: Theory and policy -- Human capital: Education and health in economic development -- Agricultural transformation and rural development -- The Environment and development -- Development policymaking and the roles of market, state, and civil society -- Problems and policies: International and macro: Trade theory and development experience -- The Trade policy debate: Export promotion, import substitution, and economic integration -- Balance of payments, developing-country debt, and the macroeconomic stabilization controversy -- Foreign finance, investment, and aid: Controversies and opportunities -- Finance and fiscal policy for development -- Some critical issues for the twenty-first century. Michael P. Todaro and Stephen C. Smith Includes index. Economics HD82.T552 0321311957 120314