Development Economics

Professor David Forsyth is a Development Economist who has worked in a wide range of Third World countries over the last three decades and has published extensively. His academic career includes periods at Strathclyde University (as Professor and Head of Department of Economics), the University of Ghana, Carleton University, the University of Virginia and, most recently, at the University of the South Pacific (as Professor and HoD Economics). (His work experience includes employment as a staff member of the United Nations (ILO -- as an expert in Technology Transfer to developing countries) and the Commonwealth Secretariat (as the Multilateral Trade Policy Adviser guiding negotiations between the EU, WTO and the South Pacific nations). He is now Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Anthony Clunies-Ross, an Australian by birth and citizenship, is also Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Strathclyde. He has degrees from Melbourne and Cambridge. He taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Papua New Guinea (1967-74), and from 1975 at the University of Strathclyde, as well as part-time for some years at the University of Glasgow. He has also taught on short courses in India and Tanzania. Mozammel Huq is Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the Developing Countries Research Unit, Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde. Prior to joining the Economics Department of the University of Strathclyde in 1987, he was actively involved in carrying out primary research at the David Livingstone Institute of Overseas Development Studies of the same University. He has thus been able to combine his teaching with practical research, analysing data collected from the field, thanks to his many involvements in various Asian and African countries.

• PART 1 History, ideologies and methods 1. Recognizing the development imperative2. Economic development: the story over fifty years3. Ideologies and methods of development economics4. Macroeconomic theories of economic growth5. The development process: landmark theoriesPART 2 Governance6. Governance questions 1: corruption7. Governance questions 2: public-sector scope, enhancement and reform8. Civil society: role and potentialPART 3 Central global questions 9. Globalization: trade, trade policy, international economic relations 10. Poverty, equity and well-being11. Sustainable development, environmental evaluation, natural resources12. Stabilization in developing countriesPART 4 Real resources and sectoral considerations13.Population and labour supply14. Migration and urbanization15. Gender and development16. Agricultural development, food supply and rural transformation17. Industrialization and development18. Building technological capabilityPART 5 Finance19. Domestic finance20. Elaboration of economic project-appraisal21. Foreign aid22. Loans and debt23. Foreign direct investment24. International migration and remittancesPART 6 Conclusion25. Guidelines, judgements and possibilities