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"What are the sources of economic development and long-term growth? Why are less developed countries poor, and what can they do about it? What is the role of foreign aid and fiscal policy in promoting development, and how might current systems be improved? Todaro and Smith pose these questions and then combine a problem-solving, policy-oriented approach with numerous case studies to teach students to evaluate current policies and issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Economic Development provides your students with a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, driving policy issues, and latest research. Todaro and Smith take a policy-oriented approach, presenting economic theory in the context of critical policy debates and country-specific case studies, to show how theory relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries.
Economic Development, 13th Edition, by Todaro and Smith is the leading textbook in the field of development economics. It provides students with a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, driving policy issues, and the latest research. Todaro and Smith take a policy-oriented approach, presenting economic theory in the context of critical policy debates and country-specific case studies, to show how theory relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries.
Michael P. Todaro was Professor of Economics at New York University for eighteen years and Senior Associate at the Population Council for thirty years. He lived and taught in Africa for six years. He appears in Who's Who in Economics and Economists of the Twentieth Century. He is also the author of eight books and more than fifty professional articles.
Stephen C. Smith is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University. Smith is the author of Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works, co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, and author or co-author of some three dozen journal articles.
Note the emphasis placed on cultural and human values, self-esteem and freedom from ignorance; it is important to remember that development is about more than advancing economic growth. Many economists believe development should be less about growth, more about inclusive well-being and about building capacities and resilience in a fast-changing and unpredictable world.
Measuring development progress can be difficult not least because of variations in the quality of data produced by different countries and also because of disagreements about which indicators might be given greater weighting when making an assessment. The Human Development Index (HDI) is one such approach.
Despite considerable economic growth and increasing self-confidence as a major global player, modern India is a disaster zone in which millions of lives are wrecked by hunger and by pitiable investment in health and education services. Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable and unethical.
Stephen Smith is Department Chair, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs. He is also a Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and has served twice as Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy.
He has also conducted extensive research on the economics of cooperatives, works councils, and other topics in the economics of organization and economics of participation, including research in Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Spain.
The 13th edition of Economic Development, which he co-authors with Michael Todaro, was published in May 2020. He is also author or coauthor of over 50 journal articles, and many other publications including Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works.
Smith has received awards and fellowships including appointments as Fulbright Research Scholar, Jean Monnet Research Fellow, IZA Research Fellow, Visiting Fellow and Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, Fulbright Senior Specialist, and most recently UNICEF Senior Research Fellow during his sabbatical in 2018.
Professor Smith teaches courses and supervises dissertations primarily in development economics; he has also taught Economics of Poverty Alleviation, International Finance, Intermediate Microeconomics, and the International Development Studies masters capstone.
He is a member of the BRAC-USA Advisory Council, and has consulted for the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, USAID, International Labor Organization, and World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Development as Economic Growth - too often commodity output as opposed to people is emphasized-measures of growth in gross national product (GNP) and per capita income (PCI). Note here the persistence of a dual economy where the export sector contains small number of workers but draws technology as opposed to traditional sector where most people work and is dominated by inefficient technology
Development as Modernization - emphasizes process of social change which is required to produce economic advancement; examines changes in social, psychological and political processes; how to develop wealth oriented behavior and values in individuals; profit seeking rather than subsistence and self sufficiency; shift from commodity to human approach with investment in education and skill training
Dualism - the coexistence in one place of two situations or phenomena (one desireable and the other not) which are mutually exclusive to different groups of society: eg., extreme poverty and affluence, modern and traditional economic sectors, growth and stagnation, university education among a few and mass illiteracy.
Enclave economies - those economies found among LDCs in which there exist small pockets of economically developed regions (often due to the presence of colonial or foreign firms engaged in plantation and mining activities) with the rest of the larger outlying areas experiencing very little progress (see also dualism).
Neocolonial Dependence Model - Outgrowth of Marxist thinking-Dos Santos; existence of underdevelopment due to historical evolution of an unequal international capitalist system of rich country-poor country relations ; sets up center (developed countries) versus periphery (developing countries) contrast; attempts to become self-reliant and progressive are surpressed by this relationship; Moreover certain elites in the developing world (e.g landlords, entrepreneurs, merchants) enjoy high incomes, social status and political power and thus perpetuate inequality and conformity and are rewarded; They serve international power groups such as multi-national firms, assistance agencies (World Bank) and other agents
Modernization Theory - suggests that economic dimension alone is insufficient and adds theories on institutional and social change; Incorporates non-economic elements such as social practices, beliefs, values and customs (McClelland, Achieving Society); Diffusion and speed of change is critical as is removal of various cultural and social barriers; Backward internal structures-rather than external factors-cause underdevelopment
Vicious circle - a self-reinforcing situation in which there are factors that tend to perpetuate an undesirable phenomenon - e.g. low incomes in poor countries lead to low consumption which then leads to poor health and low labor productivity and eventually to the persistence of poverty.
Trickle down theory of development - the notion that development is purely an "economic" phenomenon in which rapid gains from the overall growth of GNP and per capita income would automatically bring benefits (i.e., "trickle down") to the masses in the form of jobs and other economic opportunities. The main preoccupation is therefore to get the growth job done while problems of poverty, unemployment, and income distribution are perceived to be of secondary importance.
Trickle down - the idea that making the North, the cities and the elites in the South, and the rich generally, richer will ultimately produce trickle-down benefits for the world's less advantaged. See Figure 3.9, page 100 of text.
Founded on 8th October 1965, the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, is the oldest out of 20 such institutes in the world. It is the premier multi-disciplinary and a multi-purpose development research institute in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The IDS carries out full time research on high priority areas of social-economic development in Kenya, Africa and the world in general.
The Institute has been home to several Nobel Laureates and world-renowned scholars. These include James Tobin, winner of Nobel Prize in Economics (1981); Joseph Stiglitz, Winner of Nobel Prize in Economics (2000); Michael Todaro, the development economist who authored the Todaro Migration Model; James Coleman, a world-renowned sociologist; Bethwell Ogot, a world renowed historian and co-founder of IDS; and Charles Okidi, the first African recipient of the Elizabeth Haub Prize in Environmental law (1984), the highest Global award in environmental law. Many other international scholars started and built their academic careers at the IDS.
In 2000, the IDS launched its graduate MA programme and in 2002 inaugurated a PhD programme in Development Studies. This was in response to demand for highly-skilled and specialized expertise in development issues.
The IDS MA in Development Studies covers broad issues of development theory, research and practice. This is the core of the programme around which other courses revolve. Students choose courses from among the following modules:
IDS research findings are popular policy and action-oriented outputs that are disseminated widely through local, regional and international workshops, seminars and conferences organized by IDS or to which IDS researchers are invited to. The Institute also publishes the following titles:
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