The Macroeconomics of Developing Countries

Giovanni Andrea Cornia is an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Florence, Italy. He was previously the Director of UNU-WIDER and a Chief Economist at UNICEF. He has also held positions in other UN agencies and the private sector. Between 2010 and 2018 he served on the UN Committee for Development Policies of the United Nations' General Assembly, and in 2012 was elected as the first President of the Italian Development Economists Association. He has co-authored, edited or co-edited eighteen books on development and transition economics, including UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP, 1987). He has published 45 articles in scholarly journals and 140 book chapters or working papers on development macroeconomics, inequality, poverty, political economy, child wellbeing, and human development

• Part I: Context and instruments of standard macroeconomics: An overview1: Genesis, context, focus, and accounting relations of standard macroeconomics2: Long-term supply-side models of potential growth3: Short-term demand-side models of determination of income levelPart II: Economic structure and long-term growth in developing countries4: Genesis of macroeconomics and national accounts in developing countries5: Long term growth and inequality in economies relying on land and natural resources6: Growth in a dualistic economy with a rigid food supply7: Rapid population growth and long-term development8: Long-term growth in economies with a large informal sector9: Balance of payments constrained growth models10: External financing, gap models of growth, and the macroeconomics of aid11: Institutions, investments and growth in developing countries12: How do neoclassical growth models behave in low-income countries?Part III: Demand management and short-term growth: IS-LM and AS-AD in developing countries13: Short-term behavioral equations for developing countries14: IS-LM and AS-AD with behavioral equations for the developing countries15: Modelling the open economy, devaluation and the exchange rate in developing countriesPart IV: Specific macroeconomic problems faced by developing countries16: Macroeconomic stabilization17: Internal and external liberalization, inequality, growth, and poverty18: Macroeconomic policies for growth and poverty reduction