Exploration in development issues/ Nurul Islam

Part 1 Development Strategy: Concepts in Development Economics
1 Development of the labour surplus economy
2 Concepts and measurement of unemployment and underemployment in developing economies
3 External economies and the doctrine of balanced growth

Part 2 Development Strategy: Planning Models and Implementation
4 The relevance of development models to planning
5 Development planning and plan implementation - lessons of experience

Part 3 Development Strategy: Lessons of Past Experience
6 National import substitution and inward looking strategies: policies of less developed countries
7 Learning from East Asia - lessons for South Asia - an epilogue
8 Reflections on development perspectives since the 1950s
9 Lessons of experience - development policy and practice

Part 4 Food Security: Agricultural Progress: Past Performance
10 Green revolution in Asia - a few aspects and some lessons
11 Overview to population and food in the early 21st century
12 Asia's food and agriculture - future perspectives and policy influences
13 Comments on "The Issue of Sustainability in Third World Food Production
14 Linkages between agriculture and the overall economy

Part 5 Food Security: Policy Reforms in Agriculture
15 Government: issues in policy reform
16 Tensions between economics and politics in dealing with agriculture
17 Commercialization of agriculture and food security - development strategy and trade policy issues

Part 6 Food Security: Poverty and Undernutrition
18 Agricultural growth, technological progress and rural poverty
19 Undernutrition and poverty: magnitude, pattern, and measures for alleviation
20 Hunger, famines and poverty: a few considerations of political economy

Part 7 Food Security: Instability of Food Supplies and Prices
21 World food security: national and international measures for stabilization of supplies
22 Instability in world food prices in the post-Uruguay round situation - prospects and policy issues

Part 8 Trade and Aid: National Trade Policy
23 Comparative costs, factor proportions and industrial efficiency in Pakistan
24 Export incentive and effective subsidy in Pakistan: an evaluation
25 The new protectionism and the nature of world trade: comments

Part 9 Trade and Aid: Issues in Development Assistance
26 Recent trends in the theory of international investment
27 International economic assistance in the 1970s - a critique of partners in development
28 Foreign assistance and economic development : the case of Pakistan
29 Economic policy reforms and the IMF: Bangladesh experience in the early 1970s

Part 10 Trade and Aid - World Trade Issues
30 Progress of the GATT negotiations on agriculture and developing countries: options and strategies
31 Is agricultural trade liberalization bad for environment?