International trade, wage inequality and the developing economy

A general equilibrium approach

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed ...

En busca del crecimiento

andanzas y tribulaciones de los economistas del desarrollo

Desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los economistas se han esforzado por averiguar por qué los países pobres no consiguen alcanzar los niveles de renta de los países industrializados del Norte, a la vez que han aplicado toda clase de remedios a la ...

Dynamic programming in economics

Dynamic Programming in Economics is an outgrowth of a course intended for students in the first year PhD program and for researchers in Macroeconomics Dynamics. It can be used by students and researchers in Mathematics as well as in Economics. The purpose of Dynamic Programming ...

Producción, productividad y crecimiento

El libro que el lector tiene ante sí contiene la totalidad de los trabajos presentados en el curso #Producción, productividad y crecimiento# que se desarrolló en julio del 2002, en el marco de la universidad de verano de la Univesitat de Lleida. Además, hay que ...

From the local to the global

key issues in development studies

"Think globally, act locally" is a phrase that is often used nowadays to describe the importance of popular activism and an awareness of the issues surrounding globalization. This work is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the key concepts in development which are central to ...

Growth theory and growth policy

The theory of economic growth has been one of the most important issues in the study of economics since the days of Adam Smith. This collection examines the phenomenon of economic growth. With contributions from such leading academic figures as Richard Arena and Philip Arestis ...

New international poverty reduction strategies

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development policies. This book provides a critical analysis of the poverty reduction ...

Public debt and endogenous growth

This book considers public debt dynamics in various endogenous growth models, namely the AK model and explicit models of innovation and human capital accumulation. Furthermore, the closed economy, the small open economy and a two-country world are analysed. In the closed economy model, the focus ...

Developement policy as public finance

How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost- benefit analysis as a ...

Development planning and poverty reduction

The aim of development is always poverty reduction but the devil is in the detail and planning impacts heavily on the results. This study examines and evaluates macroeconomic strategies and their effectiveness in truly reducing poverty

Competitiveness strategy in developing countries

a manual for policy anaysis

This text seeks to generalize the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and sheds light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and which do not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness. INDICE Part I Introduction, Concepts and Benchmarking: 1. Ganeshan ...

Rural poverty, risk and development

Throughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failre and skill obsolescence. This volume investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development ...

La moderna economía del crecimiento

Este libro es una introducción a la economía del crecimiento a largo plazo. En él se hace un repaso de las diferentes aportaciones desde los autores clásicos, con especial énfasis en los modelos que han significado importantes avances en la literatura del crecimiento económico desde ...

Knowledge, inequality and growth in the new economy

During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant modern technology - information and communication technology (ICT) - does not seem to ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Money markets and politics

a study of european financial integration and monetary policy options

The dramatic evolution of financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s, accompanied by increasing institutional integration between nations (most notably in the EU), have fostered a widespread belief that governments - particularly those of small economies - have essentially lost the power to pursue sovereign, independent economic ...

China's economic growth

a miracle with Chinese characteristics

This title outlines the main characteristics of Chinese economic growth during the 1980s and 1990s, and investigates in detail the key determinants of growth, especially capital formulation and productivity issues

The IMF and economic development

Why do governments turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with what effects? This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative on economic growth and income distribution. By bringing in the IMF ...

Stability and growth in Europe

towards a better pact

Monitoring European Integration was established in 1990 as an annual series of reports on the progress of economic integration in Europe. The objective of the reports is to raise the level of public discussion on European policy issues. Monitoring European Integration combines intellectual rigor with ...

Volatile states

institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies

Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. Delving deeply into the historical ...