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1 HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS VOLUME

2 larai VOLUME 1 PART 1 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES T.N. Srinivasan CHAPTER 1 The Concept of Development. Amartya Sen CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 PART 2 The Roots of Development Theory W. Arthur Lewis Alternative Approaches to Development Economics Pranab Bardhan Analytics of Development: Dualism Gustav Ranis Economic Organization, Information, and Development Joseph E. Stiglitz Long-run Income Distribution and Growth Lance Taylor and Persio Arida STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION Hollis Chenery CHAPTER 7 Patterns of Structural Change Moshe Syrquin VII

3 viii Contents of the Handbook CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 The Agricultural Transformation C. Peter Timmer Industrialization and Trade Howard Pack CHAPTER 10 Saving and Development Mark Gersovitz CHAPTER 11 Migration and Urbanization Jeffrey G. Williamson PART 3 HUMAN RESOURCES AND LABOR MARKETS T.N. Srinivasan CHAPTER 12 Economic Approaches to Population Growth Nancy Birdsall CHAPTER 13 Education Investments and Returns T. Paul Schultz CHAPTER 14 Health and Nutrition Jere R. Behrman and Anil B. Deolalikar CHAPTER 15 Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries Mark R. Rosenzweig CHAPTER 16 Credit Markets and Interlinked Transactions Clive Bell Volume 2 PART 4 PLANNING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION Hollis Chenery

4 Contents of the Handbook CHAPTER 17 Short-Run Macroeconomics Persio Arida and Lance Taylor CHAPTER 18 Multisectoral Models Sherman Robinson CHAPTER 19 Income Distribution and Development Irma Adelman and Sherman Robinson CHAPTER 20 Taxation for Developing Countries Nicholas Stern and Ehtisham Ahmad CHAPTER 21 Project Evaluation in Theory and Practice Lyn Squire PART 5 INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS T.N. Srinivasan CHAPTER 22 International Cooperation Paul Streeten CHAPTER 23 Trade and Development Christopher Bliss CHAPTER 24 Alternative Perspectives on Trade and Development David Evans CHAPTER 25 Foreign Public Capital Flows Jonathan Eaton CHAPTER 26 Foreign Private Capital Flows Eliana A. Cardoso and Rudiger Dornbusch CHAPTER 27 Transitional Corporations and Direct Foreign Investment Gerald Helleiner

5 Contents of the Handbook CHAPTER 28 Disequilibrium and Structural Adjustment Sebastian Edwards and Sweder van Wijnbergen PART 6 COUNTRY EXPERIENCE WITH DEVELOPMENT Hollis Chenery CHAPTER 29 Primary Exporting Countries Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. CHAPTER 30 Import Substitution Henry Bruton CHAPTER 31 Outward Orientation Bela Balassa CHAPTER 32 Large Countries: The Influence of Size VOLUME 3A Dwight H. Perkins and Moshe Syrquin PART 7 ANALYTICAL TOOLS Jere Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan CHAPTER 33 Data and Econometric Tools for Development Analysis Angus Deaton CHAPTER 34 Human Resources: Empirical Modeling of Household and Family Decisions John Strauss and Duncan Thomas CHAPTER 35 Applied General Equilibrium Models for Policy Analysis Jan Willem Gunning and Michiel Keyzer

6 Contents of the Handbook PART 8 RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGY, AND INSTITUTIONS Jere Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan CHAPTER 36 Savings, Credit and Insurance Timothy Besley CHAPTER 37 Technological Change and Technology Strategy Robert E. Evenson and Larry E. Westphal CHAPTER 38 Institutions and Economic Development Justin Yifu Lin and Jeffrey B. Nugent CHAPTER 39 Poverty, Institutions, and the Environmental-Resource Base VOLUME 3B Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Goran Maler PART 9 POLICY REFORM, STABILIZATION, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND GROWTH Jere Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan CHAPTER 40 Policy Lessons from Development Experience Since the Second World War Anne Krueger CHAPTER 41 Poverty and Policy Michael Lipton and Martin Ravallion CHAPTER 42 Power, Distortions, Revolt and Reform in Agricultural Land Relations Hans P. Binswanger, Klaus Deininger and Gershon Feder CHAPTER 43 Human and Physical Infrastructure: Investment and Pricing Policies in Developing Countries Emmanuel Jimenez

7 xii Contents of the Handbook CHAPTER 44 Structural Adjustment, Stabilization and Policy Reform: Domestic and International Finance Viti'orio Corbo and Stanley Fischer CHAPTER 45 Trade and Industrial Policy Reform Dani Rodrik CHAPTER 46 The Contributions of Endogenous Growth Theory to the Analysis of Development Problems: An Assessment VOLUME 4 Pranab Bardhan PART 10 NEW INSIGHTS INTO RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss CHAPTER 47 Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig CHAPTER 48 Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian Economics Kaivan Munshi \ PART 11 PUBLIC GOODS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE CHAPTER 49 Public Action for Public Goods Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan CHAPTER 50 Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries Rohini Pande PART 12 HUMAN RESOURCES AND HOUSEHOLD RESPONSES TO MARKET INCENTIVES AND PUBLIC GOODS CHAPTER 51 Household Formation and Marriage Markets in Rural Areas Marcel Fafchamps and Agnes R. Quisumbing CHAPTER 52 Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality T. Paul Schultz

8 Contents of the Handbook xiii CHAPTER 53, Health Economics for Low-Income Countries Germano Mwabu CHAPTER 54 Health over the Life Course John Strauss and Duncan Thomas CHAPTER 55 Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy Peter F. Orazem and Elizabeth M. King CHAPTER 56 The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries Paul Glewwe and Edward A. Miguel CHAPTER 57 Child Labor Eric V. Edmonds CHAPTER 58 Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions PART 13 Donald Cox and Marcel Fafchamps PROGRAM EVALUATION: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 59 Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs Martin Ravallion CHAPTER 60 Evaluating Social Programs with Endogenous Program Placement and Selection of the Treated Petra E. Todd CHAPTER 61 Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer CHAPTER 62 Evaluating Conditional Schooling and Health Programs Susan W. Parker, Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel

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