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Part One: Principles and Concepts
  1. Economics, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective
  2. Diverse Structures and Common Characteristics of Developing Nations
  3. Historic Growth and Contemporary Development: Lessons and Controversies
  4. Classic Theories of Economic Development
  5. NEW! Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment
Part Two: Problems and Policies: Domestic
  1. Poverty, Inequality, and Development
  2. Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes, Consequences, and Controversies
  3. Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and Policy
  4. NEW! Human Capital: Health and Education in Economic Development
  5. Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development
  6. The Environment and Development
Part Three: Problems and Policies: International
  1. Trade Theory and Development Experience
  2. The Trade Policy Debate: Export Promotion, Import Substitution, and Economic Integration
  3. Balance of Payments, Developing Country Debt, and Issues in Macroeconomic Stabilization
  4. Foreign Finance, Investment, and Aid: Controversies and Opportunities

Part Four: Possibilities and Prospects
  1. Political Economy and the Role of Government in Development
  2. Financial Reform and Fiscal Policy
  3. Critical Issues for the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, the Environment, Africa, and International Economic Reform*
*Online Chapter

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