Development, duality, and the international economic regime
Subtitle: essays in honor of Gustav Ranis
By: edited by Gary R. Saxonhouse and T.N. Srinivasan.
Contributors: Ranis, Gustav.; Saxonhouse, Gary R.; Srinivasan, T. N., 1933-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Ranis, Gustav -- Congresses.; Economic development -- Congresses.; Income distribution -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Labor market -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Technology transfer -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Economic development -- Effect of education on -- Congresses.; International economic relations -- Congresses.; East Asia -- Economic policy -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: When Gustav Ranis began his scholarly career in the field of economic development, the global economy presented a landscape of widely contrasting conditions. Almost two-thirds of the global population was ill-fed, ill-housed, illiterate, and lacking access to proper medical care.

Today, four decades later, while standards of living have generally improved and some areas of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East have joined the highly productive economies, the gap between the wealthy few and the rest of the world has widened.

In a much-needed effort to assess the current issues facing developing countries and development economics, Ranis's former students, present and past colleagues at Yale, and fellow development economists honor him with this volume.

Contributors examine and evaluate four areas of concern: duality and the evolution of labor markets in developing economies; trade, technological transfer, and economic development; the international economic regime and economic development; and finance and economic development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the proceedings of a conference hosted by Yale's Economic Growth Center, held in May 1996.