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Part One: Development and Growth
1 Chapter 1. Patterns of Development
2 Chapter 2. Measuring Economic Growth and Development
3 Chapter 3. Economic Growth: Concepts and Patterns
4 Chapter 4. Theories of Economic Growth
5 Chapter 5. States and Markets
Part Two: Distribution and Human Resources
6 Chapter 6. Inequality and Poverty
7 Chapter 7. Population
8 Chapter 8. Education
9 Chapter 9. Health
Part Three: Saving, Investment, and Capital Flows
10 Chapter 10. Saving and Resource Mobilization
11 Chapter 11. Investment, Productivity, and Growth
12 Chapter 12. Fiscal Policy
13 Chapter 13. Financial Policy
14 Chapter 14. Foreign Aid
15 Chapter 15. Foreign Debt and Financial Crises
Part Four: Production and Trade
16 Chapter 16. Agriculture
17 Chapter 17. Primary Exports
18 Chapter 18. Industry
19 Chapter 19. Trade and Development
20 Chapter 20. Sustainable Development
21 Chapter 21. Managing an Open Economy

After reading the chapter, you ought to understand and be able to explain:

  1. The premises, objectives, and policy instruments defining import substitution as a strategy for industrialization.
  2. The main features of an outward-looking export-led strategy of industrialization.
  3. The outcomes generated from pursuit of the two alternative trade strategies.
  4. The economic effects of tariffs and import quotas, including the distinction between nominal and effective protection.
  5. How various forms of subsidies are applied to support a country’s chosen industrialization strategy.
  6. How exchange-rate policy can be managed to influence the pattern of industrialization.
  7. How protectionist policies encourage rent-seeking practices in lieu of efforts to improve efficiency.
  8. How Asia’s newly industrializing countries balanced market interventions with competitive pressures, thereby reconciling import substitution and export promotion strategies.
  9. How multilateral agreements have been adopted to move the world economy toward freer international trade (multilateralism).
  10. How trade interacts with growth and its effect on poverty. In general terms, what has worked and what has not, with respect to trade and associated policies for industrialization, and why.

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