38 research outputs found
From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development
inequality, poverty, employment, growth, neoclassicism, entitlement, famine
In search of income reference points for SLCA using a country level sustainability benchmark (part 1): fair inequality. A contribution to the Oiconomy project
The Economics Of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies Preliminary Approaches And Findings
This paper, a draft from the early stages of an ongoing UNU/WIDER research project, outlines hypotheses for the economic cause of humanitarian disasters. Complex humanitarian emergencies are considered to be man-made crises, in which large numbers of people die and suffer from war, physical violence, disease, hunger, or displacement. The study identifies four sets of economic factors responsible for emergencies: stagnation and protracted decline in incomes, unequal or immiserizing growth, rapid population growth during substantial environmental degradation and resource depletion, and large and abrupt shifts in income and wealth distribution during adjustment and liberalization programmes. The strategies of elites to maintain or expand power and benefits, in the midst of adverse economic changes and mass reaction to these changes, are instrumental in determining the potential for humanitarian disasters. A goal of the paper is to discuss, in a preliminary way, cases that fit an economic model of the causes of emergencies, setting the stage for further case studies to test how much we can generalize on the hypotheses and examples from this paper
From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-industrial Cloth Production. Edited by Esther N. Goody. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1982. x + 220 pp. Bibliography, no index. $39.50.)
Class, caste and entrepreneurship : a study of Indian industrialists
Includes index.Bibliography: p. [177]-182.x, 188 p. 22 c
Munyae Mulinge and Pempelani Mufane, eds. Debt Relief Initiatives and Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Africa. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2003. Distributed by African Books Collective, Unit 13 Kings Meadow, Ferry Hincksey Rd., Oxford 0X2 ODP, UK. xiv + 395 pp. Map. Tables. Notes. $42.95. Paper.
Economic development / E. Wayne Nafziger.
Revised edition of: The economics of developing countries.Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-825) and index.xxiv, 846 p.