Economic Development - Softcover

Todaro, Prof Michael P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582302579 ISBN 13: 9780582302570

Publisher: Longman, 1996

Synopsis

Fully revised and updated Sixth Edition of this classic text. Focuses in on real-world development problems including poverty, inequality, unemployment, population growth, environmental decay and rural stagnation from both economic and non-economic perspectives. Two types of unique case studies are included. Country Case studies elucidate chapter discussions with over 20 examples from different countries. Comparative case studies demonstrate how different countries have dealt with the same issue - e.g. privatisation in Chile and Poland.

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About the Author

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. 

In a special February 2011 centenary edition, the American Economic Review selected Todaro’s article “Migration, Unemployment and Development: A 2-Sector Analysis” (with J. Harriss) as one of the twenty most important articles published by that journal during the first hundred years of its existence.

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 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 coauthor of some three dozen journal articles.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582302579
• ISBN 13: 9780582302570
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 784