Islam, Nurul <br/><br/>
Exploration in development issues/ 
Nurul Islam 
 - England:  Ashgate,  2003. 
 - xi, 568 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Part 1 Development Strategy: Concepts in Development Economics<br/>1 Development of the labour surplus economy<br/>2 Concepts and measurement of unemployment and underemployment in developing economies<br/>3 External economies and the doctrine of balanced growth<br/><br/>Part 2 Development Strategy: Planning Models and Implementation<br/>4 The relevance of development models to planning<br/>5 Development planning and plan implementation - lessons of experience<br/><br/>Part 3 Development Strategy: Lessons of Past Experience<br/>6 National import substitution and inward looking strategies: policies of less developed countries<br/>7 Learning from East Asia - lessons for South Asia - an epilogue<br/>8 Reflections on development perspectives since the 1950s<br/>9 Lessons of experience - development policy and practice<br/><br/>Part 4 Food Security: Agricultural Progress: Past Performance<br/>10 Green revolution in Asia - a few aspects and some lessons<br/>11 Overview to population and food in the early 21st century<br/>12 Asia's food and agriculture - future perspectives and policy influences<br/>13 Comments on "The Issue of Sustainability in Third World Food Production<br/>14 Linkages between agriculture and the overall economy<br/><br/>Part 5 Food Security: Policy Reforms in Agriculture<br/>15 Government: issues in policy reform<br/>16 Tensions between economics and politics in dealing with agriculture<br/>17 Commercialization of agriculture and food security - development strategy and trade policy issues<br/><br/>Part 6 Food Security: Poverty and Undernutrition<br/>18 Agricultural growth, technological progress and rural poverty<br/>19 Undernutrition and poverty: magnitude, pattern, and measures for alleviation<br/>20 Hunger, famines and poverty: a few considerations of political economy<br/><br/>Part 7 Food Security: Instability of Food Supplies and Prices<br/>21 World food security: national and international measures for stabilization of supplies<br/>22 Instability in world food prices in the post-Uruguay round situation - prospects and policy issues<br/><br/>Part 8 Trade and Aid: National Trade Policy<br/>23 Comparative costs, factor proportions and industrial efficiency in Pakistan<br/>24 Export incentive and effective subsidy in Pakistan: an evaluation<br/>25 The new protectionism and the nature of world trade: comments<br/><br/>Part 9 Trade and Aid: Issues in Development Assistance<br/>26 Recent trends in the theory of international investment<br/>27 International economic assistance in the 1970s - a critique of partners in development<br/>28 Foreign assistance and economic development : the case of Pakistan<br/>29 Economic policy reforms and the IMF: Bangladesh experience in the early 1970s<br/><br/>Part 10 Trade and Aid - World Trade Issues<br/>30 Progress of the GATT negotiations on agriculture and developing countries: options and strategies<br/>31 Is agricultural trade liberalization bad for environment? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754615958 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Development Economics<br/>Economic Development<br/>Economic Assistance
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.9  / ISL/E