The book brings together the 17 papers written over a period of 23 years on a variety economic problems. The contents fall into 3 sections: economic growth, theoretical welare economics and practical welare economics.

This book presents fifteen papers selected from the papers read at the 53rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance held at Kyoto, Japan, in August 1997.

Study of India and Queensland, Australia.

Increases by the World Bank in support of social investment -- from $1 billion for 1987-89 to more than $3 billion for 1990-92 -- indicate growing awareness that social development is economic development, both as an end in itself and as a ...

"Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and ...

The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War.

Synthesizes the recent literature on growth theory and relates it to welfare issues.

This edition includes new chapters on health and employment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.