This textbook is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development. Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical framework through which fundamental questions about economic development can be examined....

Theoretical Foundations: A General Equilibrium Approach -- The Harris-Todaro Migration Model and Introduction of the Informal Sector -- Informal Sector and Open Unemployment -- Foreign Capital Inflow, Informal Sector and Welfare -- How and How Far to Liberalise a Developing Economy -- Economic...

Utilizando un modelo de equilibrio general computable se evalua el efecto del establecimiento de un impuesto al carbono en la economia mexicana. El gravamen se estima segun diferentes supuestos acerca del ritmo de cambio tecnologico y en proyectos neutrales y no neutrales al ingreso. Los...

Few ideas and activities have received as hyperbolic praise as that presented by Hernando de Soto on informality. Nobel laureates in economics, presidents of various countries, important magazines, and multilateral organizations have endorsed this author’s impulse towards the official...

Introduction: Orientation and Focus -- The Preliminaries -- The Two Sector Ramsey Model -- The Three-Sector Ramsey Model -- Extensions to the Three-Sector Model -- The Extended Three-Sector Model -- A Three-Sector #x2013; Two-Country World -- Data Issues and the Social Accounting Matrix -- Solution...