| List of Tables | p. ix |
| List of Boxes | p. xiii |
| List of Figures | p. xiv |
| Preface | p. xviii |
| Foreword | p. xxvi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xxix |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. xxx |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xxxiii |
| Legacy - Lal Jayawardena | p. xxxv |
| Development Economics in Retrospect | |
| The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005 | p. 3 |
| Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice | p. 37 |
| From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development | p. 50 |
| Inequality in Historical Perspective | p. 63 |
| Inequality and Conflict | |
| Health Improvements and Health Inequality during the Last 40 Years | p. 77 |
| Inequality and Corruption | p. 100 |
| Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security | p. 123 |
| Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence in Early Post-conflict Transitions and Its Implications for Development | p. 135 |
| Human Development and Wellbeing | |
| International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development? Evidence for 1975-2002 | p. 149 |
| Investing in Health for Economic Development: The Case of Mexico | p. 168 |
| A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education | p. 183 |
| Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development? | p. 197 |
| Globalization | |
| Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy | p. 227 |
| A Quest for Pro-poor Globalization | p. 252 |
| International Migration in an Era of Globalization: Has it Come Out of its Marginality? | p. 273 |
| Development Finance | |
| International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets | p. 299 |
| Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating IMF Responsibility | p. 319 |
| International Finance and the Developing World: The Next 20 Years | p. 333 |
| Growth and Poverty | |
| Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Evidence | p. 349 |
| Decomposing Growth: Do Low-income and HIPCs Differ from High-income Countries? | p. 371 |
| Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes:International Comparisons | p. 400 |
| Innovations, High-tech Trade and Industrial Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy | p. 416 |
| Manufacturing, Services and Premature Deindustrialization in Developing Countries: A Kaldorian Analysis | p. 435 |
| Development Strategies | |
| Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America? | p. 457 |
| Development in Chile 1990-2005: Lessons from a Positive Experience | p. 476 |
| Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from Successes and Failures | p. 493 |
| Development Strategy, Viability and Economic Institutions: The Case of China | p. 518 |
| Institutions, Policies and Economic Development | p. 531 |
| Patterns of Rent Extraction and Deployment in Developing Countries: Implications for Governance, Economic Policy and Performance | p. 555 |
| Credit Co-operatives in Locally Financed Economic Development: Using Energy Efficiency as a Lever | p. 578 |
| Development Economics in Prospect | |
| Development through Globalization? | p. 593 |
| Do We Need a 'New Great Transformation'? Is One Likely? | p. 614 |
| Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs | p. 640 |
| Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy | p. 664 |
| The Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the Twenty-first Century: Critical Trends and New Challenges | p. 686 |
| Development Questions for 25 Years | p. 712 |
| Index of Names | p. 723 |
| Subject Index | p. 737 |
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