Labour Markets, Poverty, and Development

Klappentext Labour, Poverty, and Development provides rigorous economic analysis with the necessary theoretical underpinnings, detailing the causes, effects, and implications of the current situation in the developing world. Bringing together some of the world's foremost experts on development, the volume concentrates on three main areas: the relationship between employment, growth, and trade; the growth of urban labor; and the position in rural areas. Zusammenfassung Examines the disparity between the developed and developing world. This book combines economic analysis and broader-based theorizing to provide a picture of the causes, effects and implications of the situation in the developing world, stressing the relationship between macro and micro economics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Growth, Trade Policy, and Employment 1: Enzo Grilli and Giovanni Zanalda: Growth and Employment in Developing Countries: Where do We Stand? 2: Valpy K. Fitzgerald and Giorgio Perosino: Trade Liberalization, Employment, and Wages: A Critical Approach 3: Francesco Daveri and Riccardo Faini: Risk and Migration Part II: Industry and Urban Labour 4: Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart: V-Goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development 5: Giorgio Barba Navaretti: Promoting the Strong or Supporting the Weak? Technological Gaps and Segmented Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan African Industry 6: Simon Appleton, John Hoddinott, Pramila Krishnan, and Kerry Max: Does the Labour Market Explain Lower Female Schooling? Evidence from Three African Countries Part III: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Labour 7: Minquan Liu: Labour Allocation under Baochan 8: Partha Dasgupta: Nutritional Status, the capacity for Work, and Poverty Traps

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• Authors: Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Giorgio (University of Milan) Fai Barba Navaretti, Giorgio Barba Faini Navaretti
• Assisted by: Giorgio Barba Navaretti (Editor), Riccardo Faini (Editor), Giorgio Barba Navaretti (Editor), Giovanni Zanalda (Editor), Frank Hahn (Foreword), Amartya Sen (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1998
• EAN: 9780198293538
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829353-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Queen Elizabeth House Series i; Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies; Queen Elizabeth House Developm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics