Overview
- Revised and updated to include additional exercises, technical mathematical appendix, and solutions to all questions
- Develops dynamic two-sector models to explain sector differences in productivity, wages, hours worked, fertility, and saving rates, and how structural transformation impacts economic growth
- Augments the Solow model to include endogenous theories of saving, fertility, human capital, institutional arrangements, and policy formation
- Provides end-of-chapter questions to solidify main points for less advanced students and model-based problems for more advanced students
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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One-Sector Growth Models
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Front Matter
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Two-Sector and Dual Economies
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Revised and expanded edition of a textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students provides an introduction to features of growth theory, explaining how the theory can be blended with historical data and case studies to consider sources of economic prosperity that may be used to help lagging countries prosper.” (Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 59 (1), March, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sibabrata Das has received his Ph. D. in Economics from University of Sussex, U.K.; and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. Dr. Das has taught graduate courses in statistics, econometrics, microeconomics and development economics, at North Bengal University, Vidyasagar University, and Burdwan University, in India. As a research economist for the Ghana macroeconomic team at the World Bank, he has worked on macroeconomic modeling, and projections for various policy papers and country operations projects. As a member of the country teams, Dr. Das has also actively participated in World Bank-IMF country missions in Ghana, Angola, and Grenada. As a staff member he has contributed to several of the World Bank-IMF publications over the years. Currently, at the International Monetary Fund, he works on various cross-country projects on growth, economic development, and important policy issues across the countries and regions of the world.
Alex Mourmouras is division chief in the Asia and Pacific department of the IMF where he has served as mission chief for Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. He was previously division chief in the IMF Institute for Capacity Development and economist in the Fund’s Policy Development and Review and Fiscal Affairs Departments. Before joining the IMF, Dr. Mourmouras served as assistant and associate professor of Economics and director of graduate studies, all at the University of Cincinnati. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University ofMinnesota and a BA degree from Harvard College.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Growth and Development
Book Subtitle: A Dynamic Dual Economy Approach
Authors: Sibabrata Das, Alex Mourmouras, Peter Rangazas
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89755-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89754-7Published: 28 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07848-5Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89755-4Published: 16 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 356
Number of Illustrations: 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Growth, Development Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics