Thinking about Development (Raffaele Mattioli Lectures) - Softcover

Streeten, Paul Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521599733 ISBN 13: 9780521599733

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Paul Streeten is recognised as one of the profession's most eminent authorities on economic development. In these lectures he provides a major statement on his approach to the development problem, stressing that human development, not simply income growth, should be the focus of all strategies to eradicate hunger and poverty in the world. His argument assigns an important role to reformed government - both in providing social services and in facilitating the functioning of markets - in opposition to the prevailing idea that minimal government is more often than not the optimal solution. The role of small and larger firms, institutions, central and local government is also carefully examined. Streeten outlines a normative political economy - how to mobilise reformist alliances, how to use interest group, how to harness coalition - in the pursuit of effective development.

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Review

"The arguments are made in clear, lively, and nontechnical prose." Jonathan Morduch, Journal of Economic Literature

Book Description

How can we hope to eradicate poverty and hunger in the world? Paul Streeten, one of the most eminent authorities on economic development, believes that human development, not simply income growth, should be the focus of all strategies. He outlines a normative political economy in the pursuit of effective development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521599733
• ISBN 13: 9780521599733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428