Reflections on Economic Development : The Selected Essays of Michael P. Todaro

By: Michael P. Todaro

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Hardcover | 1 January 1995

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This collection of Todaro's essays focuses on a wide range of topics in economic development, including rural-urban migration, international legal and illegal migration, population growth, technological change, education, the environment and ethics.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Urbanization in Developing Nations: Trends, Prospects, and Policies	p. 5
A Model of Labor Migration and Urban Unemployment in Less Developed Countries	p. 16
Migration Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis	p. 27
Income Expectations, Rural-Urban Migration and Employment in Africa	p. 44
Urban Job Expansion, Induced Migration and Rising Unemployment: A Formulation and Simplified Empirical Test for LDCs	p. 71
Rural-Urban Migration, Unemployment and Job Probabilities: Recent Theoretical and Empirical Research	p. 86
Internal Migration in Developing Countries: A Survey	p. 105
Internal Migration, Urban Population Growth and Unemployment in Developing Nations: Issues and Controversies	p. 147
Female Migration: A Conceptual Framework	p. 164
Illegal Migration and US Immigration Reform: A Conceptual Framework	p. 191
International Migration	p. 205
Educational Demand and Supply in the Context of Growing Unemployment in Less Developed Countries	p. 221
Education, Society and Development: Some Main Themes and Suggested Strategies for International Assistance	p. 232
A Theoretical Note on Labour as an "Inferior" Factor in Less Developed Economies	p. 241
Technological Transfer, Labour Absorption, and Economic Development	p. 251
Some Thoughts on the Transfer of Technology from Developed to Less Developed Nations	p. 260
Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes, Consequences, and Controversies	p. 277
Development Policy and Population Growth: A Framework for Planners	p. 316
Intergenerational Income-Fertility Linkages in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework	p. 337
Family Structure, Implicit Contracts, and the Demand for Children in Southern Nigeria	p. 358
Industrialization, Unemployment, and the Urban Environment	p. 385
The Environment and Development	p. 405
Current Issues in Economic Development	p. 441
Ethics, Values, and Economic Development	p. 473
Name index	p. 497
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