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A study of ethico-economic theorizing on socio-economic development, this book examines critically the views currently held by theoreticians' comprehensive concept of the world view in development theory, then reconsiders various global issues, both in theoretical and applied perspectives. By the author of "Contributions to Islamic Economic Theory", "The Paradigm of Humanomics", "An Islamic Social Welfare Function" and "Manpower Planning and Policies in Saudi Arabia".
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Comparative Development Studies : In Search of the World View / Masudul Alam Choudhury
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London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993
ISBN 10: 0333583094
ISBN 13: 9780333583098
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 291 pp. Contents; 1. Concept of the World View in Comparative Politico-Economic Perspective -- 2. Critical Examination of Development Paradigms -- 3. Political Economy of Development -- 4. Some Major Conceptual Issues in Development -- 5. Critical Examination of Some World Development Reports -- 5.1. South Commission Report: The Challenge to the South -- 5.2. critical examination of the proposals made by the South Commission Report -- 5.3. Summary of South Commission recommendations for the South -- 5.4. Problems and prospects of development in the South in the perspective of Global Economic Outlook 2000 -- 5.5. World Development Report 1989, 1990, 1991: World Bank outlook on the state of the global economy -- 5.6. Critical review of Global Economic Outlook 2000 -- 5.7. UNDP: Human Development Report 1990, 1991 -- 5.8. Common themes amongst the Reports -- 5.9. ethico-economic alternative to UNDP-UN perspectives -- 5.10. Significant microeconomic interrelationships in ethical structuring in South development -- 5.11. Population as the focus of issues in equality, poverty, entitlement, and justice in the framework of development. 6. Conclusion -- 6.1. Anomie in development theorizing -- 6.2. central issue of simultaneity between distributive equity and economic efficiency in development perspective: the ethico-economic world view -- 6.3. Loss of uniqueness of objective and perceptions in mainstream development theories -- 6.4. Mainstream economic features of alternative ethical approaches to development -- 6.5. Ethics-centred development emphasized in development reports -- 6.6. ultimate need for a scientific and methodological study of ethics in development. Technical Appendix: A Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge-based World View Model of Development. Subjects; Economic development. Economics Growth. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 388485
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Comparative Development Studies : In Search of the World View / Masudul Alam Choudhury
Published by
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993
ISBN 10: 0333583094
ISBN 13: 9780333583098
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 291 pp. Contents; 1. Concept of the World View in Comparative Politico-Economic Perspective -- 2. Critical Examination of Development Paradigms -- 3. Political Economy of Development -- 4. Some Major Conceptual Issues in Development -- 5. Critical Examination of Some World Development Reports -- 5.1. South Commission Report: The Challenge to the South -- 5.2. critical examination of the proposals made by the South Commission Report -- 5.3. Summary of South Commission recommendations for the South -- 5.4. Problems and prospects of development in the South in the perspective of Global Economic Outlook 2000 -- 5.5. World Development Report 1989, 1990, 1991: World Bank outlook on the state of the global economy -- 5.6. Critical review of Global Economic Outlook 2000 -- 5.7. UNDP: Human Development Report 1990, 1991 -- 5.8. Common themes amongst the Reports -- 5.9. ethico-economic alternative to UNDP-UN perspectives -- 5.10. Significant microeconomic interrelationships in ethical structuring in South development -- 5.11. Population as the focus of issues in equality, poverty, entitlement, and justice in the framework of development. 6. Conclusion -- 6.1. Anomie in development theorizing -- 6.2. central issue of simultaneity between distributive equity and economic efficiency in development perspective: the ethico-economic world view -- 6.3. Loss of uniqueness of objective and perceptions in mainstream development theories -- 6.4. Mainstream economic features of alternative ethical approaches to development -- 6.5. Ethics-centred development emphasized in development reports -- 6.6. ultimate need for a scientific and methodological study of ethics in development. Technical Appendix: A Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge-based World View Model of Development. Subjects; Economic development. Economics Growth. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 388485