Economic Development - by Fidelis Ezeala-Harrison (Hardcover)

About the Book

Economists are being asked to provide explanations and prescriptive policy for addressing the questions of chronic poverty and underdevelopment in the world. Answers are needed not only for the questions of how and why these problems arise, but also whether the problems can be prevented and how the problems can be approached. This book is an exposition to the student, the researcher, and the practitioner in the field of economic development giving an approach from the basic rudiments to the advanced level and bridging the gap between the neoclassical models of growth and development and the modern structuralist approaches to the study and analyses of economic development.

Book Synopsis

Economists are being asked to provide explanations and prescriptive policy for addressing the questions of chronic poverty and underdevelopment in the world. Answers are needed not only for the questions of how and why these problems arise, but also whether the problems can be prevented and how the problems can be approached. This book is an exposition to the student, the researcher, and the practitioner in the field of economic development giving an approach from the basic rudiments to the advanced level and bridging the gap between the neoclassical models of growth and development and the modern structuralist approaches to the study and analyses of economic development.

Review Quotes

?Ezeala-Harrison sucessfully bridges the gap between the theoretical and policy approaches to economic development in this compact volume....Theoretical issues are very well developed and policy issues are carefully laid out. This reviewer was impressed with the breadth and depth of real life experiences from which examples are drawn. Perhaps the most distinctive feature is the careful and detailed attention givien to environmental issues throughout the book. Highly recommended for students, reearchers, and practitioners of developmental economics.?-Choice

"Ezeala-Harrison sucessfully bridges the gap between the theoretical and policy approaches to economic development in this compact volume....Theoretical issues are very well developed and policy issues are carefully laid out. This reviewer was impressed with the breadth and depth of real life experiences from which examples are drawn. Perhaps the most distinctive feature is the careful and detailed attention givien to environmental issues throughout the book. Highly recommended for students, reearchers, and practitioners of developmental economics."-Choice

About the Author

FIDELIS EZEALA-HARRISON is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Ezeala-Harrison is the author of many journal articles on economic development and is co-editor of Perspectives on Economic Development in Africa (Praeger, 1994).