Current issues in economic development : an Asian perspective

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Tables = xi
• List of Figures = xi
• Foreword = xii
• Preface = xv
• List of Contributors = xvii
• Terms and Abbreviations = xix
• Chapter One : An Overview / M. G. QUIBRLA ; J. MALCOLM DOWLING = 1
• Governance, Democracy, Corruption, and Ethics = 6
• Regulation, Privatization, the Trading Environment, and Economic Development = 12
• Population, the Environment, and Agricultural Development = 18
• Acknowledgment = 22
• Notes = 22
• References = 25
• Chapter Two : Governance / PAUL STREETEN = 27
• Global Participation = 29
• The Role of the State : Markets and Governance = 30
• Democracy, Capitalism, and Development = 38
• The Transition from Planned to Market Economies = 40
• Decentralization = 47
• The Civil Society = 48
• The Politics of Aid = 50
• The Political Economy of International Support = 51
• Buffers between Donors and Recipients = 55
• Theories of the State = 56
• Some Policy Conclusions for Good Governance = 60
• For Governments = 60
• For Donor Agencies = 61
• Notes = 61
• References = 63
• Chapter Three : Democracy : A Recipe for Growth? / ROBERT J. BARRO = 67
• Framework of the Empirical Analysis = 68
• Empirical Findings on Growth across Countries = 70
• Initial Level of GDP = 73
• Initial Level of Human Capital = 73
• Educational Spending = 74
• Fertility Rate = 74
• Government Consumption = 75
• Measures of Market Distortions : The Black Market Premium and the Rule of Law Index = 75
• Investment Ratio = 77
• Terms of Trade = 78
• Dummies for Africa, Latin America, and East Asia = 78
• Democracy = 79
• Sources of Growth = 84
• Effects of Economic Development on Democracy = 89
• Acknowledgment = 99
• Notes = 102
• References = 104
• Chapter Four : Can Anything Be Done About Corruption? / ABHIJIT BANERJEE = 107
• Reforming the Current System = 109
• Adequate Rewards for Bureaucrats = 110
• Better Record Keeping = 111
• Selecting the Right Bureaucrats = 111
• Reducing Discretion = 112
• Reducing Corruption by Changing the System = 112
• Tax Farming : A case Study of Legalization = 112
• A Simple Model of Tax Farming = 113
• Alternate Sets of Rules fir Tax Collectors = 114
• The Historical Record of Tax Farming = 117
• Some Practical Limitations of the Legalization Approach = 118
• Taking Stock : Can Legalization Really Work? = 122
• Combating Corruption in Other Sectors of the Government = 122
• The Political Economy of Corruption = 124
• Acknowledgment = 128
• Notes = 129
• References = 129
• Chapter Five : Ethics, Values, and Economic Development / BASANT K. KAPUR = 132
• Ethics and Values in Economics-A Discussion = 132
• The Problem Posed = 132
• Some Philosophical Perspectives = 135
• Some Economic Perspectives = 137
• Ethics and Values in Economic Development = 147
• The Societywide Level = 147
• The Political System = 149
• The Issue of Basic Needs = 151
• Other Issues = 153
• Acknowledgment = 154
• Notes = 154
• References = 159
• Chapter Six : Regulation, Privatization, and Incentives in Developing Countries / JEAN-JACQUES LAFFONT = 164
• Specificities of Developing Countries = 165
• Regulation and Development = 167
• A Recap of the New Economics of Regulation = 167
• High Cost of Public Funds = 168
• Monitoring = 169
• Hierarchical Regulation = 170
• Political Constraints = 172
• Commitment = 174
• Financial Constraints = 175
• Promotion of Competition = 175
• Conclusions about Regulation = 176
• Privatization = 177
• Conventional Arguments = 177
• Absence of Capital Market Monitoring = 177
• Soft Budget Constraint = 178
• Expropriation of Investments = 178
• Lack of Precise Objectives = 178
• Lobbying-Government Interference = 178
• Social Objectives = 178
• Centralized Control = 179
• Incomplete Contracting : A Needed Framework = 179
• Some Tradeoffs = 180
• The Shapiro-Willig Model = 180
• The Schmidt Model = 181
• The Laffont-Tirole Model = 182
• Political Economy Issues = 184
• Financial Constraints = 184
• Privatization and Governments' Budget Constraints = 185
• Conclusions about Privatization = 186
• Acknowledgment = 187
• Notes = 187
• References = 189
• Chapter Seven : Trade Liberalization and Economic Development / RODNEY E. FALVEY = 192
• Empirical Evidence on Openness and Growth = 195
• Trade Liberalization and the Level of Real Income Per Capita = 204
• Trade Liberalization and Growth in Per Capita Real Income = 207
• Physical Capital Accumulation = 208
• Human Capital Accumulation = 209
• Schooling = 209
• Learning by Doing = 212
• Investments in Research and Development = 215
• Evidence = 221
• Summary = 222
• Acknowledgment = 225
• References = 225
• Chapter Eight : The Uruguay Round and Asian Developing Economies / T. N. SRINIVASAN = 229
• Agricultural Trade Liberalization = 235
• Textiles and Clothing = 241
• Preferential Trading Arrangements in The Post-Uruguay
• Round Trading System : South and East Asia = 243
• Trade and the Environment = 251
• Trade and Labor Standards = 258
• Nontariff Measures = 265
• Services, TRIMS, and TRIPS = 266
• Acknowledgment = 270
• Notes = 270
• References = 272
• Chapter Nine : The Role of Cross-Border Division of Labor and Investment in Promoting Trade : Two Case Studies from East Asia / MOTOSHIGE ITOH ; JUN SHIBATA = 276
• The Patterns of Trade and Investment in Asian Countries = 277
• Cross-border Division of Labor in the East Asian Region : The Japanese Electronics Industry = 282
• Structural Changes in the Distribution System in Importing countries and Asian Trade : Textiles and Apparel = 288
• Asian Developing Economies and APEC = 292
• Notes = 296
• References = 298
• Chapter Ten : Reflections on Agricultural Development, Population Growth, and the Environment / MARC NERLOVE = 299
• Population Change, Endogenous Fertility, and the Demographic Transition = 303
• Malthus' Theory of Demographic Change = 303
• A Theory of the Demographic Transition in Western Europe = 305
• Relevance to Developing Countries Today = 310
• Role of Agriculture and Agricultural Productivity in General Economic Growth = 311
• Demand for Agricultural Products = 312
• The Supply of Agricultural Products = 315
• Traditional Agriculture, Agricultural Modernization and Expansion : Process, Demographics, and Environmental impacts = 317
• Schultz's Characterization of Traditional Agriculture = 317
• An Apparent Asian Contradiction to Schultz's Theory of Traditional Agriculture = 321
• Agricultural Involution in Java = 321
• Indonesian Background = 322
• Rice = 324
• Agricultural Involution in Java : How Did It Happen? = 327
• Agricultural Modernization = 329
• Population and the Environment : Economic and Demographic Interactions = 334
• A Simple Model of the Relation between Size of the Human Population and Environmental and Other Natural Resources = 334
• The Prognosis for a Stable Equilibrium at a High Level of Environmental Quality and Abundant Natural Resources per Capita = 336
• The Role of Agricultural Modernization = 338
• Acknowledgment = 339
• Appendix = 340
• Notes = 342
• References = 344
• Chapter Eleven : Population and Economic Development / M. ALI KHAN = 348
• The Theory of Demographic Transition = 350
• The Change in Demographic Transition Theory = 352
• The Chicago-Columbia Framework = 356
• Easterlin's Elaboration and Interpretation = 361
• The Turn to Desired Fertility = 365
• Welfare Economics with or without Nonconvexities = 370
• The Design of Optimum Population = 375
• A Recasting of the Debate = 379
• Acknowledgment = 383
• Notes = 383
• References = 391
• Author Index = 396
• Subject Index = 403