Development With a Human Face: Experiences in Social Achievement and Economic Growth - Couverture rigide

Mehrotra, Santosh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198290764 ISBN 13 : 9780198290766

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Covering common elements and diversities in social development across a range of developing countries, this text includes an examination of health and education policies and economic transformation. The book is intended for policy-makers in developing countries and government bodies, international agencies, development specialists and journalists. It should also be relevant to graduate courses in development economics and development studies.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Within the last fifty years, most developing countries have made health and educational advances that took nearly two centuries in the industrialized countries. This book presents retrospective studies of ten developing countries that managed to exceed the scope and pace of social achievement of other developing countries, with many of their social indicators now being comparable with those of industrialized countries. This book attempts to learn the lesson of their success. Half the ten countries studied have combined rapid economic growth with social achievement, and are now considered to have high-performing economies. Significantly, the high-growth economies achieved social progress very early in the development process, when national incomes were still low. Others grew more slowly and experienced interrupted growth. However, they demonstrate that it is possible to achieve a high level of social development even without a thriving economy, if the government sets the right priorities. All ten countries achieved sustained improvement in child survival and educational levels despite low incomes, precisely because the investment required for the provision of basic services is low in cost but high in effectiveness. The cases chosen represent all the developing regions, and offer a variety of routes to high educational status, decreased child mortality, and low fertility. The book provides valuable guidance to policy-makers in developing countries in every region seeking to replicate these successful social experiments.

Revue de presse

Very informative and provides an important contribution to development debates. It is non-technical and the arguments are well-documented, so it should appeal to a wide audience including students and researchers (Journal of International Development)

Development with a Human Face offers an excellent introduction to the debates about the intersections between health, education and other related sectors, from a development economist's perspective (International Journal of Educational Development)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198290764
• ISBN 13: 9780198290766
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 508
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie