Overview
- First handbook to take a pluralistic approach to development economics
- Applies deep and strategically crucial, conceptual and policy links between development paths and the multi-dimensional questions of sustainability
- Appraises a variety of methodological approaches and analytical tools
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This Handbook responds to the needs and aspirations of current and future generations of development economists by providing critical reference material alongside or in relation to mainstream propositions. Despite the potential of globalisation in accelerating growth and development in low and middle-income countries through the spread of technology, knowledge and information, its current practice in many parts of the world has led to processes that are socially, economically and politically and ecologically unsustainable. It is critical for development economists to engage with the pivotal question of how to change the nature and course of globalisation to make it work for inclusive and sustainable development. Applying a critical and pluralistic approach, the chapters in this Handbook examine economics of development paths under globalisation, focusing on sustainable development in social, environmental, institutional and political economy dimensions. It aims at advancing the frontier of development economics in these key aspects and generating more refined policy perspectives. It is critically reflective in examining effects of globalisation on development paths to date, and in terms of methodological and analytical approaches, as well as forward-thinking in policy perspectives with a view to laying a foundation for sustainable development.
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Keywords
- political-economic
- globalisation
- sustainability
- financial
- technological advancements
- heterodox
- pluralistic economics
- development economics
- Regulation Theory
- evolutionary economics
- income inequality
- development finance
- Aid-Debt-Growth Debates
- ecological sustainability
- global public goods
- international migration
- international monetary systems
Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Overview
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Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Development Economics
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Socio-economic Development Processes: Structural Change, Inequality, Poverty, Institutions and Capabilities
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Finance, Labour, Technology and Ecology in Economic Development
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Machiko Nissanke is Professor Emeritus of Economics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has published extensively on a wide range of topics including finance and development, debt dynamics and macroeconomic management, institutional economics and globalization in books, journals and UN reports. She has served as advisor to various international organisations and research networks, and directed several major international research programmes.
José Antonio Ocampo is Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de la República, Colombia’s central bank, and Chair of the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). He teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development,international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics
Book Subtitle: Critical Reflections on Globalisation and Development
Editors: Machiko Nissanke, José Antonio Ocampo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14000-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13999-5Published: 28 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14002-1Published: 28 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14000-7Published: 12 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 905
Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Public Economics, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Labor Economics, Environmental Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy