The Development Frontier : Essays in Applied Economics

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Traders and the Development Frontier -- 2. Economic Progress and Occupational Distribution: Numbers, Roles, and Categories -- 3. Population, Welfare, and Development: Gloom Dispelled -- 4. Foreign Aid: Central Component of World Development? -- 5. The Third World Debt Crisis: Can't Pay or Won't Pay? -- 6. Marketing Reform: An Inventory of Intervention -- 7. Cooperative Societies in Less Developed Countries -- 8. Commodity Stabilization: Disguised Restrictionism -- 9. Wage Regulation in Less Developed Countries: On Not Helping the Poor -- 10. Price Control in Less Developed Countries: Unexpected Consequences -- 11. Industrialization and Development: Nigeria -- 12. Policy and Progress: The Hong Kong Story -- 13. Import Capacity and Economic Development: India -- 14. Price Response: Cocoa and Palm Oil in Nigeria -- 15. Competition on and Prices: Groundnut Buying in Nigeria -- 16. Economic History as Theory: An Unrealistic Prospectus -- 17. Development Economics: A Retrospective View -- Notes -- Index