Development Economics and Policy: The Conference Volume to Celebrate the 85th Birthday of Professor Sir Hans Singer

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-11
The Influence of Trade on Economic Development....Pages 12-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
The Prebisch-Singer Terms of Trade Hypothesis: Some (Very) New Evidence....Pages 27-34
Prebisch and Singer Effects on the Terms of Trade between Primary Producers and Manufacturers....Pages 35-62
The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis Revisited....Pages 63-85
A Contribution to Empirical Research on the Prebisch-Singer Thesis....Pages 86-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Trade Orientation and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence....Pages 113-132
The Strategic Use of Trade Policies for Development: Some General Equilibrium Issues....Pages 133-145
Liberalization, Privatization and the Pace of Economic Development in Taiwan....Pages 146-171
Redistribution without Growth....Pages 172-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Distributional Inequity in International Comparative Perspective: Causes and Consequences....Pages 185-229
Food Aid, North-South Trade, and the Prebisch-Singer Thesis....Pages 230-248
Endogenous Technical Progress and North-South Terms of Trade: Modelling the Ideas of Prebisch and Singer on the Lines of Kalecki-Kaldor....Pages 249-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Direct Foreign Investment and North-South Trade: Uneven Development or Convergent Growth?....Pages 261-286
The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries Revisited: The Case of India’s Computer Software Sector....Pages 287-299
A Prebisch-Singer Growth Model and the Debt Crises....Pages 300-317
Uncertainty in a Model of Small Agriculture in Peru: Some Preliminary Results....Pages 318-335
The Interest Cost of a Buffer Stock is Not a Social Cost....Pages 336-348
Supra-National Compensation Schemes for Temporary Export Losses: A Critique....Pages 349-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
The World Bank, ‘Global Keynesianism’ and the Distribution of the Gains from Growth....Pages 377-388
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
An Economic and Social Security Council at the United Nations....Pages 389-417
The IMF as International Lender of Last Resort? A Reappraisal After the ‘Tequila Effect’....Pages 418-436
The World Food Programme: Linking Relief and Development....Pages 437-484
Employment and Development....Pages 485-502
Reaching the Poor: Prospects and Constraints....Pages 503-506
The Role of the International Agencies: An Assessment....Pages 507-509
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Joseph A. Schumpeter: The Man and the Economist....Pages 513-523
Modern Relevance of Keynesianism in the Study of Development....Pages 524-533
Back Matter....Pages 535-569