Development needs the manager. If managers, in turn, are to be effective, they should understand the context of the development process in which they operate. And development economists should aid that understanding. This paper is a step in that direction.

The theory of comparative advantage is the oldest – and most fundamental – principle in international economics. Its empirical significance, however, changes with the times. Given the intensification of the forces of globalisation, the importance of comparative costs should now be revisited...

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...

Gerald Meier - one of the world's most prominent leading thinkers in the economics of development - interprets the past treatment of development problems with the present and future in mind.

Commissioned by The World Bank, this book is a history and analysis of the efforts to assist less developed countries achieve a higher economic level. It also offers a new way of thinking about economic development.

Meier examines the rapidly changing global economy from an economist's point of view, with an emphasis on the principles of international economics, the conduct of international economic transations, and the policies of international economic institutions. The book provides the conceptual...