Leading scholars and policy makers reflect on thinking in development economics. This book covers the major themes in development, highlights issues, and shows how research can improve the understanding of these important questions. It looks at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Leading scholars and policymakers reflect on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen during the next two decades. Covering the major themes in development in an accessible way, this original and authoritative contribution highlights new and emerging issues, and shows how research can improve our understanding of these important questions. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Preface
G.Mavrotas &
A.Shorrocks - Foreword - Obituary: Lal Jaywardena
A.Singh - PART 1: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS IN RETROSPECT - The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005
E.Thorbecke - Turning Points
in Development Thinking and Practice
L.Emmerij - From Sees to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development
W.Nafziger - Inequality in Historical Perspective
R.Jolly - PART 2: INEQUALITY AND CONFLICT - Health Improvements and Health Inequality During the Last 40 Years
G.A.Cornia &
L.Menchini - Inequality and Corruption
E.Uslaner - Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and
their Implications for Security
S.M. Murshed - Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence in Early Post-conflict Transitions and its Implications for Development

M.B. Hartwell - PART 3: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING - International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development? Evidence for 1975 to 2002
F.Noorbakhsh - Investing in Health for Economic Development: The Case of Mexico
N.Lustig - A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education
D.Fielding, M.McGillivray &
S.Torres - Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and
is it a Deep Determinant of Development? S.Knowles -
PART 4: GLOBALISATION - Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy
N.Birdsall - A Quest for Pro-poor Globalisation
M.Nissanke &
E.Thorbecke - International Migration in an Era of Globalisation
A.de Haan - PART 5: DEVELOPMENT FINANCE - International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
V.Fitzgerald - Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating the IMF Responsibility
S.Marchesi &
L.Sabani - International Finance and the Developing World: The Next Twenty Years
T.Addison - PART 6: GROWTH - Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Evidence
M.Blackden, S.Canagarajah, S.Klasen &
D.Lawson - Decomposing Growth: Do Low-income and HIPC Countries Differ from High-income Countries? P.Haaparanta &
H.Virta - Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes: International Comparisons
N.Kakwani &
H.H. Son - Innovations, High-tech Trade and Industrial Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
L.Singh - Manufacturing, Services and Premature De-industrialization in Developing Countries
S.Dasgupta &
A.Singh - PART 7: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES - Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America? G.Rozenwurcel -