Pioneers in development

by Bauer, P. T., (Péter Tamás) Meier, Gerald M. Seers, Dudley

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This book answers critics of the basic needs approach, views this approach as a logical step in the evolution of economic analysis and development policy, and presents a clearsighted interpretation of the issues. Based on the actual experience of various countries-their successes and failures-the book is a distillation of World Bank studies of the operational implications of meeting basic needs. It explores the feasibility of implementing such an approach as well as ways of measuring performanc…

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Full title :Pioneers in development / Lord Bauer [and others] ; edited by Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers.

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Publication Date:1984.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1984.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 372 pages ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0195204522, 9780195204520, 0195204794, 9780195204797
oclc:ocm10606033
LC Classification:HD74
Dewey Decimal:338.9

Remembrance of studies past : retracing first steps / Lord Bauer -- Development economics : the early years / Colin Clark -- A dissenter's confession : "The strategy of economic development" revisited / Albert O. Hirschman -- Development economics in the 1950s / Arthur Lewis -- International inequality and foreign aid in retrospect / Gunnar Myrdal -- Five stages in my thinking on development / Raul Prebisch -- Natura facit saltum : analysis of the disequilibrium / Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan -- Development : the political economy of the Marshallian long period / Walt Whitman Rostow -- The terms of trade controversy and the evolution of soft financing : early years in the U.N. / H.W. Singer -- Development cooperation as a learning process / Jan Tinbergen.