Development Policy As Public Finance

Informationen zum Autor Clive Bell is Professor of Economics at Heidelberg University. Having obtained his D.Phil. from the University of Sussex in 1976, he has since held positions at the World Bank (1974-85), Johns Hopkins University (1985-6), Vanderbilt University (1986-95), and Regensburg University (1991-4). Klappentext This is a graduate text on the use of public economics in formulating development policy. How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations! which the analysis of the role of international trade! liberalization! and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost-benefit analysis as a means to discipline public expenditure decisions. Summaries and exercises are included. Zusammenfassung Clive Bell's graduate text addresses the use of public economics in the formulation of development policy. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost-benefit analysis as a means to controlling public expenditure decisions. 1. International Trade: Theory; 2. International Trade: Practice; 3. International Trade: Liberalization; 4. Taxation; 5. Tax Reform; 6. Seigniorage and Debt; 7. Other Dynamic Pitfalls; 8. An Introduction to Social-Cost Benefit Analysis; 9. Shadow Prices: A General Equilibrium Approach; 10. Time: The Social Discount Rate; 11. Space: Transportation Costs; 12. Risk and Uncertainty; 13. Large Projects; 14. Land Reform and Tenancy; 15. Small-Scale Credit; Appendix A Primer in Duality Theory

Product details

• Authors: Clive Bell, Clive (Professor of Economics Bell, Bell Clive
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2003
• EAN: 9780198773665
• ISBN: 978-0-19-877366-5
• No. of pages: 486
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Political Economy, Public finance, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, International Trade, Public finance and taxation, International trade and commerce