Trade, Planning and Rural Development: Essays in Honour of Nurul Islam

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Parabolic Welfare Functions and Development Assistance....Pages 9-17
Cost of Directly Unproductive Profit-Seeking and Rent-Seeking Activities: Some Conceptual Issues....Pages 18-26
On Some Unresolved Issues in Optimum Tariff Theory....Pages 27-35
Comparative Advantage and Free Trade....Pages 36-52
The Governance Gap....Pages 53-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Participatory Development: Some Perspectives from Grassroots Experience....Pages 79-115
The Changing Role of Economic Planning in Japan....Pages 116-124
Project Evaluation as an Aid to Planning: How Successful has the Innovation Been?....Pages 125-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
A View of Rural Development, 1980s Vintage (or why some of the Emperor’s clothes — and his rice — should be made at home)....Pages 139-155
Poverty and Development: Prospects and Priorities for the 1990s....Pages 156-173
Some Reflections on Bangladesh Development: Looking Backward to the Future....Pages 174-180
Foodgrain Pricing Policy in Bangladesh: Procurement, Sales, Imports and Public Stocks....Pages 181-198
Returns from Education in Rural Bangladesh....Pages 199-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Economics Comes of Age in a Developing Country: the Case of Bangladesh....Pages 223-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-236