Development Economics and Policy

The Conference Volume to Celebrate the 85th Birthday of Professor Sir Hans Singer

By: David Sapsford (Editor), John-ren Chen (Editor)

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Hardcover | 10 August 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Hans Singer is undoubtedly one of, if not the, world's major scholars in the field of Development Economics. Over the last six decades he has made numerous contributions to the subject both as scholar and practitioner. This book contains 27 essays that were prepared for a conference that was held in Innsbruck Austria in May 1996 to celebrate his 85th birthday and represents a major and important overview of issues in development economics from the most eminent scholars in the field.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction and Overview	p. 1
The Influence of Trade on Economic Development	p. 12
The Prebisch-Singer Terms of Trade Hypothesis
The Prebisch-Singer Terms of Trade Hypothesis: Some (Very) New Evidence	p. 25
Prebisch and Singer Effects on the Terms of Trade between Primary Producers and Manufacturers	p. 35
The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis Revisited	p. 63
A Contribution to Empirical Research on the Prebisch-Singer Thesis	p. 86
Trade Strategies, Growth and Development
Trade Orientation and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence	p. 111
The Strategic Use of Trade Policies for Development: Some General Equilibrium Issues	p. 133
Liberalization, Privatization and the Pace of Economic Development in Taiwan	p. 146
Redistribution without Growth	p. 172
Theory and Practice of Development
Distributional Inequity in International Comparative Perspective: Causes and Consequences	p. 183
Food Aid, North-South Trade, and the Prebisch-Singer Thesis	p. 230
Endogenous Technical Progress and North-South Terms of Trade: Modelling the Ideas of Prebisch and Singer on the Lines of Kalecki-Kaldor	p. 249
The Distribution of Gains in the Context of Uneven Development
Direct Foreign Investment and North-South Trade: Uneven Development or Convergent Growth?	p. 259
The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries Revisited: The Case of India's Computer Software Sector	p. 287
A Prebisch-Singer Growth Model and the Debt Crises	p. 300
Uncertainty in a Model of Small Agriculture in Peru: Some Preliminary Results	p. 318
The Interest Costs of a Buffer Stock is Not a Social Cost	p. 336
Supra-National Compensation Schemes for Temporary Export Losses: A Critique	p. 349
The Role of the International Agencies
The World Bank, 'Global Keynesianism' and the Distribution of the Gains from Growth	p. 375
An Economic and Social Security Council at the United Nations	p. 389
The IMF as International Lender of Last Resort? A Reappraisal after the 'Tequila Effect'	p. 418
The World Food Programme: Linking Relief and Development	p. 437
Employment and Development	p. 485
Reaching the Poor: Prospects and Constraints	p. 503
The Role of the International Agencies: An Assessment	p. 507
Hans Singer: Student and Scholar
Joseph A. Schumpeter: The Man and the Economist	p. 511
Modern Relevance of Keynesianism in the Study of Development	p. 524
Professor Sir Hans W. Singer: Academic Education and Honours, Career and Publications	p. 535
Index	p. 565
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