Macroeconomics of Developing Countries

An Intermediate Textbook
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-885667-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

The Macroeconomics of Developing Countries provides a comprehensive discussion of the exogenous factors and macroeconomic policies that affect the business cycle, long term growth, and distribution of income in developing countries. It examines countries dependent on natural resources and affected by supply rigidities in agriculture. They also feature dualistic markets, a large informal sector, rapid population growth, a vulnerable export sector, and chronic
dependence on a volatile global finance. The Macroeconomics of Developing Countries uses these examples to analyse the impact of stablization and adjustment politices on growth, inequality, and poverty.

Despite the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals there is little consensus on how macroeconomic policies can be consistent with these objectives. The Macroeconomics of Developing Countries demonstrates that a critical application of standard models to developing countries can generate erroneous results and induce the adoption of incorrect policy. In order to address this, it discusses the key structural differences between advanced and developing countries in order to justify
the construction of alternative models.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanni Andrea Cornia is an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Florence, Italy. He was previously the Director of UNU-WIDER and a Chief Economist at UNICEF. He has also held positions in other UN agencies and the private sector. Between 2010 and 2018 he served on the UN Committee for Development Policies of the United Nations' General Assembly, and in 2012 was elected as the first President of the Italian Development Economists Association. He has
co-authored, edited or co-edited eighteen books on development and transition economics, including UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP, 1987). He has published 45 articles in scholarly journals and 140 book chapters or working papers on development macroeconomics,
inequality, poverty, political economy, child wellbeing, and human development