Economics of Development: Empirical InvestigationsTextbook on the economics of economic development in developing countries - presents an economic theory of development, and discusses methodology, input output analysis, linear programming, efficiency and production analysis, trade, the economic implications of technological change, etc. Bibliography pp. 431 to 457, diagrams, references and statistical tables. |
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An Excursion into Methodology | 18 |
Some Refractory Hypotheses | 28 |
vii | 37 |
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Adelman and Morris agricultural sector alternative analysis approach assumed assumptions average Chapter Chenery coefficients commodity constant consumption cost countries curve decrease defined domestic dualism economic development effects elasticity of substitution empirical employment equation equilibrium estimates example exogenous export instability factors of production farms firms foreign exchange growth rate human capital hypothesis implies important income distribution increase indicators industry inputs investment isoquant LDCs linkage macroeconomic marginal product matrix maximization measured ment migration neoclassical nomic nonagricultural opportunity cost parameters percent permanent income production function profit function quantity rate of growth rate of return ratio regression relative respect returns to scale savings shadow prices social specific supply Table tariff tariff rates technical efficiency technological change terms of trade theory tion trade creation trade diversion urban utility variables wage rate welfare X₁ Yotopoulos zero