TY - BOOK AU - Islam, Nurul TI - Exploration in development issues SN - 9780754615958 U1 - 338.9 PY - 2003/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Development Economics KW - Economic Development KW - Economic Assistance N1 - 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? ER -