Development Economics

Yujiro Hayami was Chairman of the Graduate Faculty at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development and Professor at the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo.Yoshihisa Godo is Associate Professor of Economics at Meijigakuin University and Visiting Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo.

• Introduction ; 1. A Theoretical Framework for Economic Development ; 2. A Comparative Perspective on Developing Economies ; 3. Population Growth and the Constraint of Natural Resources ; 4. Breaking the Resource Constraint ; 5. Capital Accumulation and Economic Development ; 6. Patterns and Sources of Technological Progress ; 7. Income Distribution and Environmental Problems ; 8. Market and State ; 9. The Role of Community in Economic Development ; 10. Tradition and Modernization: A Concluding Remark ; Bibliography ; Index

Excellent texts on development economics, which offer alternative approaches to the study of this important and growing branch of economics. Lecturers will want to find room on their reading lists in the next academic year.