Economic development / created by Michael P. Todaro and Stephen C. Smith

Includes index.

1 Introducing Economic Development: A Global Perspective 2 Comparative Economic Development 3 Classic Theories of Economic Growth and Development4 Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment 5 Poverty, Inequality, and Development6 Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes,Consequences, and Controversies7 Urbanisation and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and Policy8 Human Capital: Education and Health in Economic Development9 Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development10 The Environment and Development11 Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market, State, and Civil Society12 International Trade Theory and Development Strategy13 Balance of Payments, Debt, Financial Crises, and Sustainable Recovery: Cases and Policies14 Foreign Finance, Investment, Aid, and Conflict: Controversies and Opportunities15 Finance and Fiscal Policy for Development

"Economic Development, the leading textbook in this field, provides your students with a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, driving policy issues, and latest research. Todaro and Smith take a policy-oriented approach, presenting economic theory in the context of critical policy debates and country-specific case studies, to show how theory relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries."