Economic Growth and Development

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• Introduction Acknowledgements xiv


• The central fact in our economic world: global inequality


• The five key concerns of this book
  
  
  • Revolution An example of a debate about growth: the British Industrial
    
    
    • World Economy since Part I The Proximate Sources of Growth in the Modern
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 1 Thinking about Growth
  
  
  • What is growth?
  
  
  • Ways of thinking about growth
  
  
  • Economic growth and human development
  
  
  • Key points
  
  
  
  


• 2 Growth in the Modern World Economy since
  
  
  • Growth in the world economy since
  
  
  • Introduction to the proximate causes of economic growth
  
  
  • Key points
  
  
  
  


• 3 Domestic and Foreign Direct Investment
  
  
  • Investment and economic growth
  
  
  • Investment:the basic concepts
  
  
  • Robust empirical results and an elusive quest
  
  
  • Policy and investment
  
  
  • Foreign direct investment
  
  
  • Key points
  
  
  
  


• 4 Population and Economic Growth/Development
  
  
  • Population and economic growth
  
  
  • Population: the basic concepts
  
  
  • The demographic transition
  
  
  • Demography and government policy
  
  
  • The phenomenon of missing women
  
  
  • Key points
  
  
  • 5 Technology and Economic Growth
    
    
    • Technology and economic growth
    
    
    • Technology:the basic concepts
    
    
    • Technological change in economic theory
    
    
    • Case studies of technological change
      
      
      • interventions and a vaccine for malaria A paradox of appropriate technological change: preventative
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • MNCs and technology transfer
    
    
    • Key points
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 6 Education and Health
    
    
    • Education and health in developing countries
    
    
    • Education,health and economic growth
    
    
    • From growth to education and health
    
    
    • From education to economic growth
    
    
    • Education policy
    
    
    • Health and economic growth
    
    
    • Key points
      
      
      • Deeper Determinants of Economic Growth Part II Patterns of Long-term Economic Growth and the
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 7 The Great Divergence since
    
    
    • Europe in 1750: stagnation or growth?
    
    
    • Comparative incomes in
    
    
    • The origins of the Western lead
    
    
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  • 8 Economic Growth and Economic Structure since
    
    
    • Conceptualizing structural change:the Lewis model and inequality
    
    
    • The role of agriculture in structural change
    
    
    • The role of industry in structural change
    
    
    • The role of services in structural change
    
    
    • A policy case study: structuralism
    
    
    • Key points
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 9 Colonialism
    
    
    • Colonialism and economic growth
    
    
    • The diversity of colonialism
    
    
    • From Marx to neo-colonialism: a changing debate
    
    
    • Colonialism and development: the debate
    
    
    • Key points
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 10 Institutions
  
  
  • Institutions and economic growth
  
  
  • What are institutions?
  
  
  • Democracy and dictatorship as institutions
  
  
  • Property rights as institutions
  
  
  • The WTO and the intellectual property rights debate
  
  
  • Policy towards institutions
  
  
  • Key points
  
  
  
  


• 11 Geography and Economic Resources
  
  
  • Geography and economic growth
  
  
  • Geography: definitions
  
  
  • The statistics of geography: income and growth
  
  
  • Geography and economic growth: investigating the link
  
  
  • Geography: impact and policy agenda
  
  
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• 12 Culture
  
  
  • Culture and economic growth
  
  
  • What is culture?
  
  
  • Culture changes
  
  
  • Weber and the spirit of capitalism
  
  
  • Ethnicity
  
  
  • Networks
  
  
  • Key points
  
  
  
  


• 13 International Trade, Openness and Integration
  
  
  • Openness and economic growth
  
  
  • The basic trade model
  
  
  • Patterns of openness
  
  
  • Trade liberalization: the debate
  
  
  • Openness and the bigger picture: power, ideas and consumption
  
  
  • Key points
  
  
  • Conclusion:Eight Principles for Policy-Makers
  
  
  • Prioritize reform
  
  
  • Be careful with lessons and history
  
  
  • Distinguish policy goals and policy means
  
  
  • Reform must be compatible with Political Economy
  
  
  • Don’t forget government capacity
  
  
  • The deep determinants can be modified
  
  
  • Think about demand as well as supply
  
  
  • Don’t get too hung up on democracy
  
  
  
  


• Bibliography


• Index
  
  
  • 5.2 Technological change
  
  
  • 5.3 Technological change: the green revolution
  
  
  • 5.4 Technological change: industrialization
  
  
  • 6.1 Education, health and economic growth
  
  
  • 9.1 Colonialism as a deeper determinant of economic growth
  
  
  
  


• 10.1 Institutions as a deeper determinant of economic growth


• 11.1 Geography as a deeper determinant of economic growth


• 12.1 Culture as a deeper determinant of economic growth


• 13.1 Openness as a deeper determinant of economic growth
  
  
  • 1.1 Historical calculations of HDI
  
  
  • 1.2 The Millennium Development Goals
  
  
  • 2.1 The revival of Zambia?
  
  
  • 3.1 Karl Marx and the crucial importance of investment
  
  
  • 3.2 John Maynard Keynes,growth and investment
  
  
  • 4.1 Malthus and population catastrophe
  
  
  • 4.2 Potatoes: the first wonder food
  
  
  • 5.1 Spectacular spillovers:textiles in Bangladesh
  
  
  • 6.1 Universal primary education in Tanzania
  
  
  • 6.2 Community health care in Ceara, Brazil
  
  
  • 6.3 Barefoot doctors in China
  
  
  • 6.4 Community health care insurance in Senegal
  
  
  • 7.1 How do we imagine a giraffe?
  
  
  • 8.1 Agriculture and Japanese economic growth after
  
  
  • 8.2 From socialist industrialization to socialist deindustrialization
  
  
  • 8.3 ‘The China effect’
  
  
  • 9.1 The complex nature of colonialism
  
  
  
  


• 10.1 The cost of democracy: US aid in Iraq


• 10.2 Collective property rights


• 10.3 The evolution of legal rights in Britain


• 11.1 The reversal of fortune hypothesis


• 11.2 Troublesome trains in Uganda


• 12.1 The ‘vampire state’ in Ghana


• 12.2 The Congress Party in India


• 12.3 The National Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico