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• 2004

Pages: 568

ISBN: 8171884148

INR 1295

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Exploration in Development Issues

SELECTED ARTICLES OF NURUL ISLAM

Nurul Islam

Description

I have done my research and writing predominantly on economic policy issues, be it trade and aid, development strategy, or food security. The articles are overwhelmingly policy-oriented; they tend to echo or represent the climate of debate, thinking and research in the different periods when they were written. The selection of articles was made in such a way that they fulfil, as far as possible, one or several of the following criteria: 1) they represent my main thinking and writing on that particular issue; 2) they were prominent in debate and discussion among academic economists/policy analysts during the time when they were written; 3) they retain some relevance and/or are of major or continuing interest in the current academic/policy discussions.

— Nurul Islam
    (Excerpt from the author’s introduction to this collection)

 

 

“This volume presents the collected wisdom of a distinguished economist whose academic contributions have been immensely enriched by his varied experience inside policymaking institutions at both the national and international levels.”

— Gustav Ranis
     Director of the Yale Centre for International
     and Area Studies,
     Yale University USA.

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

Nurul Islam (of Bangladesh) is currently a research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, where he joined as a senior policy adviser to the director general in 1987. At IFPRI, Islam is conducting research on trade, macroeconomic policy, and agricultural development strategy. Prior to this, he was the assistant director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, Economic and Social Policy Department, deputy chairman of the Bangladesh Planning Commission, chairman of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, and chairman of the Department of Economics at Dhaka University. Islam received a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from Dhaka University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, U.S.A.

Contents in detail:

Introduction: An Overview

 

 


 
PART I
Development Strategy: Concepts in Development Economics

 

1.Development of the Labour Surplus Economy

2.Concepts and Measurement of Unemployment and
   Underemployment in Developing Economies

3.External Economies and the Doctrine of Balanced Growth

 

 


 
PART II
Development Strategy: Planning Models and Implementation


4.The Relevance of Development Models to Planning

5.Development Planning and Plan Implementation:
   Lessons of Experience

 

 

 

 
PART III
Development Strategy: Lessons of Past Experience

 
6.National Import Substitution and Inward Looking Strategies:
   Policies of Less Developed Countries

7.Learning from East Asia: Lessons for South Asia - An Epilogue

8.Reflections on Development Perspectives since the 1950s

9.Lessons of Experience: Development Policy and Practice
 

 

 


PART IV
Food Security: Agricultural Progress: Past Performance


10.Green Revolution in Asia: A Few Aspects
     and Some Lessons

11.Overview to Population and Food in the Early
     Twenty-first Century

12.Asia’s Food and Agriculture: Future Perspectives and
     Policy Influences

13.Comments on ‘The Issue of Sustainability in Third World
     Food Production’

14.Linkages between Agriculture and the Overall Economy
 

 

 


PART V
Food Security: Policy Reforms in Agriculture


15.Government: Issues in Policy Reform

16.Tensions between Economics and Politics in Dealing with Agriculture

17.Commercialization of Agriculture and Food Security:
     Development Strategy and Trade Policy Issues
 

 

 

 

PART VI
Food Security: Poverty and Undernutrition


18.Agricultural Growth, Technological Progress
     and Rural Poverty

19.Undernutrition and Poverty: Magnitude, Pattern
     and Measures for Alleviation

20.Hunger, Famines and Poverty: A Few Considerations
    of Political Economy
 

 

 

 

PART VII
Food Security: Instability of Food Supplies and Prices

 
21.World Food Security: National and International Measures
     for Stabilization of Supplies

22.Instability in World Food Prices in the Post-Uruguay Round
     Situation: Prospects and Policy Issues
 

 

 

 

PART VIII
Trade and Aid: National Trade Policy


23.Comparative Costs, Factor Proportions and
     IndustrialEfficiency in Pakistan

24.Export Incentive and Effective Subsidy in Pakistan:
     An Evaluation

25.The New Protectionism and the Nature of World Trade:
     Comments

 

 

 

 
PART IX
Trade and Aid: Issues in Development Assistance


26.Recent Trends in the Theory of International Investment

27.International Economic Assistance in the 1970s -
     A Critique of Partners in Development

28.Foreign Assistance and Economic Development:
     The Case of Pakistan

29.Economic Policy Reforms and the IMF: Bangladesh Experience
     in the Early 1970s
 

 

 

PART X
Trade and Aid: World Trade Issues


30.Progress of the GATT Negotiations on Agriculture and
     Developing Countries: Options and Strategies

31.Is Agricultural Trade Liberalization Bad for Environment?