This paper makes a distinction between social safety nets and welfare states and argues that while the former are needed because of the ubiquitousness of risk in human life, the case for the latter is...
This paper examines the role of the public and private sectors in health financing from a viewpoint that differs significantly from the technocratic health economics which has dominated current discussions...
An emerging theme in development thinking and practice is the role of popular participation, and in particular of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), in both the promotion of democracy (seen as essential...
Sri Lanka and Malaysia have similar land areas and resource endowments. Both countries were once colonies, and in both a large plantation and mining export sector coexists with a peasant rice economy...
This article surveys empirical studies of the static gains from a movement toward free trade and studies of the dynamic effects of growth in exports on per capita income. It also summarizes comparative...
Lessons from the Southern Cone policy reforms. Land rights systems and agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The relevance for developing countries of recent developments in macroeconomic theory...
Two of the major policy problems facing governments of developing countries in the 1980s have been unsustainable external and internal disequilibria, and implementation of politically feasible stabilization...
Small manufacturing enterprises in developing countries. A valuation model for developing-country debt with endogenous rescheduling. The political economy of economic liberalization. Sites and services...
This paper considers the long run development policies and outcomes of 5 land abundant export economies of Argentina, Peru, Ghana, Tanzania and Thailand. The discussion focuses on three 'political economy'...
This paper presents arguments against the intellectual imperialism of both the axiomatic, positivist Arrow-Debreu paradigm of the mathematicians as well as the libertarian a prioristic paradigm of the...
This paper surveys empirical studies which seek to demonstrate the limited static gains from a movement towards free trade in Section I. Section II surveys statistical studies which have established the...
In June 1984, as this introduction is being written, the world economy seems to be recovering from the deepest global recession in fifty years. Will the recovery be sustained? Can there be a renewed period...
This paper discusses Indian industrialization in historical and comparative perspective. It illustrates that Indian industrialization was impressive relative to both other developed and developing countries...
This paper links the current problems of protectionism and debt in the global economy to certain longer-term trends and "structural" weaknesses of developed and developing countries exposed by the supply...
This paper builds on the insight of Brennan and Buchanan that most states in the past and present are best viewed as predatory, seeking to maximize the profits of government, rather than seeking to maximize...
This paper charts long-term trends in rural real wages to see if the conclusions of an earlier study concerning a positive association between trends in rural real wages and in the changing balance between...
This paper asks if there is anything useful that economists can say about minimizing the real costs of stabilization and the structural adjustment entailed by reforming various inefficient microscopic...
Indian export incentives are analyzed within the framework of piecemeal "second-best" welfare economics, taking the extant import control system as a binding constraint. A condensed account of recent Indian...
A theoretical model is used to estimate an all-India unskilled industrial workers shadow to market wage ratio. The purposes are to derive distributional weights that permit evaluation of the interpersonal...