Equity, human capital, and development
By: editors, Ali Khan, Ismail Sirageldin.
Contributors: Khan, Ali.; Sirageldin, Ismail Abdel-Hamid.
Series: Research in human capital and development ;; v. 2, 1981; Research in human capital and development ;; 2 91981)
Publisher: Jai Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Economic development.; Human capital.; Education -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.; Income distribution -- Developing countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and summary / Ali Khan and Ismail Sirageldin; title: Measures of poverty and their policy implications / Noriyuki Takayama and Koichi Hamada; title: Paradoxes of work and consumption in late twentieth century America / Nathan Keyfitz; title: A model of economic growth with investment in human capital / Ronald Findlay and Carlos A. Rodriguez; title: The influence of nonhuman wealth on the accumulation of human capital / John Graham; title: The changing role of breastfeeding in economic development / William P. Butz; title: The effects of income maintenance on school performance and education attainment / Charles D. Mallar and Rebecca A. Maynard; title: An analysis of education, employment, and income distribution using an economic-demographic model of the Philippines / Gerry B. Rodgers; title: The welfare implications of relative price distortions and inflation, an analysis of the recent Argentine experience / Ke-young Chu and Andrew Feltenstein.