This paper evaluates the impacts of globalization on quality of life, particularly on human development, gender … development and human poverty in developing countries. Applying the fixed effect model to the annual panel data of 124 developing …) not only promotes human and gender development, but also significantly reduces human poverty. Not surprisingly, all the …

This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate …. However the reverse happens, and development theory is deprived of an adequate explanation for national differentiation in … assesses the skewed character which results, in contemporary accounts (both within and outside economics) of development …

goods masked a systematic failure, for much of the third world, to overcome the central problem of development – the high …

Lance Taylor is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent development economists in the world and is known for his … work on development planning, macroeconomics of development, stabilization policy, and the global economy. He has also been … the major force behind structuralist economics, which is seen by many to be a major alternative to orthodox development …

This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved …, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies …