Globalisation, development and transition conversations with eminent economists /
| Main Author: | Snowdon, Brian. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA :
Edward Elgar,
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 537 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The fall and rise of globalisation
- Introduction
- Globalisation v. 'globaphobia'
- The gains from trade and good governance
- When did globalisation begin?
- The 'great reversal' : international disintegration and recovery
- Financial globalisation
- The benefits and costs of financial integration
- Exchange rate regimes and the 'open-economy trilemma'
- The role of the International Monetary Fund
- Globalisation and the IMF : some lessons from the 1990s
- International labour migration
- The 'offshore outsourcing' controversy
- The size of nations
- Growth, productivity and international competitiveness
- Analysing global competitiveness
- The Growth Competitiveness Index
- The Business Competitiveness Index
- The Global Competitiveness Index
- Improving competitiveness of developing countries
- Conclusion
- Economic development in historical perspective
- Introduction
- The 'great escape'
- Alternative measures of 'progress'
- Income measures
- Beyond income measures of progress : basic needs, the PQLI and life expectancy
- The Human Development Index
- Competitiveness indices
- Measures of freedom
- Anthropometrics
- The economics of obesity
- The economics of happiness and life satisfaction
- The birth of development economics
- From the 'dirigiste consensus' to the 'Washington consensus' and beyond
- Growth and development
- Growth, development and the role of institutions
- Economic history and institutions
- Bandits and kleptocrats
- Barriers to growth and development
- Sub-Saharan Africa's 'growth tragedy'
- From 'Marshall Plan' to Millennium Development Goals
- 2005 : a 'pivotal year' in the development debate?
- The foreign aid controversy
- Aid and poverty traps
- Foreign aid : a 'weapon of mass salvation'
- Conclusion
- The rise and fall of the socialist system and the trials of transition
- Introduction
- The legacy of Marx
- The rise and fall of the socialist system and the Soviet Union, 1917-91
- From 'golden age' growth to slowdown
- Western perceptions of the socialist system
- Economic analysis under socialism
- From glasnost and perestroika to transition
- The political economy of transition
- A third way : is market socialism feasible?
- Alternative paths of transition : the shock therapy v. gradualism debate
- The political economy of reform
- Conclusion.