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The Pursuit of Development: Economic Growth, Social Change and Ideas
Ian Goldin
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Description for The Pursuit of Development: Economic Growth, Social Change and Ideas
Hardcover. In this book Ian Goldin shows how the understanding of how nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has changed as the pendulum has swung from arguments for state-led development to a preoccupation with market forces. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: GTF; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In his new book, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity and other dimensions of human well-being make to development, and discusses why it is also ... Read more
What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In his new book, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity and other dimensions of human well-being make to development, and discusses why it is also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
307 g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198778035
SKU
V9780198778035
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Ref
99-62
About Ian Goldin
Professor Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, and the University Professor of Globalisation and Development, as well as being a Professorial Fellow at the University's Balliol College. From 2001 to 2006, he was Vice President of the World Bank and the Bank's Director of Development Policy. From 1996 to 2001, Ian was ... Read more
Reviews for The Pursuit of Development: Economic Growth, Social Change and Ideas
An authoritative and highly readable account of evolution of economic and social development that goes beyond a focus on economic growth to a broader understanding of well-being.
David Lorimer, Network Reviews
David Lorimer, Network Reviews