Economic Development - Softcover

Todaro, Prof Michael P.; Smith, Stephen C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405874244 ISBN 13: 9781405874243

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2008

Synopsis

Combining accessible theory, relevant policy issues, and the latest data and research.

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Combining accessible theory, relevant policy issues, and the latest data and research

Economic Development presents theory in the context of policy debates, so you see how theory and applied studies relate to the problems and prospects of developing countries. In the Tenth Edition, the authorsintegrate new discussions of recent thinking in areas such as environmental resources, gender, governance, inequality and poverty, and microfinance.

Todaro and Smith provide:

§          Theory and applied studies in context with real-world, country-specific examples.

§          Relevancy via an approach that presents development problems and case studies in the context of critical policy questions.

§          Currency with the best and most recent data and tools for analytical thinking.

§          A global perspective with development viewed in both domestic and international contexts.

“'In attempting the impossible task of covering the empirical diversity of Third World experiences and institutions, trying to keep up with the policy debate, and very important and very difficult, not pushing an ideological line but allowing students to make up their own minds it is streets ahead of all the direct competition I have seen, '

-Paul Mosley University of Sheffield.

'The strengths of the book are that it is comprehensive, well written and accessible to students who don’t have an in-depth understanding of formal economics.'

-Matthew Cole Birmingham University. 

“This Book has been and still is a classic.”

-Arild Angelsen, Agricultural University of  Norway. 

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405874244
• ISBN 13: 9781405874243
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 896