This book helps us to understand development economics in light of the past half-century's experience of development thought and practice. This volume is an outgrowth of an intergenerational symposium on "the Future of Development Economics," held in Dubrovnik in May 1999. It collects the papers...

In this collection, I can therefore really only scratch the surface. My objective in this collection and especially in this introductory essay is therefore not to be comprehensive, nor to go deep into the details of the many fascinating threads that jointly make up the rich fabric of development...

Globalization brings the suffering of the world's poor directly to the attention of those fortunate to have been born non-poor in high-income countries. And there is plenty of suffering. In 2004, an estimated 969 million people - more than 18% of the world's population - lived on less than...