Economics for developing world: an introduction to principles, problems and policies for development /

Includes bibliographical references and index

Principles and concepts
1. Economics: its nature and importance for developing nations
2. Economic systems and third world economies
3. Important concepts and principles-I
4. Important concepts and principles-II
5. Common characteristics of developing countries
6. The meaning of development
7. Economic growth: causes and characteristics
8. Economic growth and development: lessons and controversies
Problems and policies -domestic
1. Attacking poverty and inequality: the policy options
2. The great population debates
3. Economics of population and development
4. Unemployment: dimensions of a global problem
5. Rural to urban migration: theory and policy
6. Agricultural stagnation and agrarian structures
7. Subsistence agriculture and rural development
8. The economics of education
9. Education and development: issues and options
Problems and policies- international
1. International trade and economic development: the traditional view
2. Trade and development: theory and reality
3. The balance of payments and the international debt crisis
4. Trade policy for development
5. Private investment and foreign aid
Possibilities and prospects
1. Development planning: theory and practice
2. Monetary and fiscal policies
3. Issues for the 1990s: economic interdependence, world food supplies, international debt and the African crisis