The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics

Part I: Overview.- 1. Introduction to the Handbook-  Machiko Nissanke and Jose Antonio Ocampo.- 2. Critical Reflections on Globalisation and Development and Challenges Ahead- Machiko Nissanke and Jose Antonio Ocampo.- Part II: Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Development Economics.- 3. The History and Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2017-  Erik Thorbecke.- 4. Structuralists, Structure, and Economic Development- Amitava Krishna Dutt.- 5. Development Economics and Public Economics: Emerging Analytical Interface and Practical Policy Implications- Valpy Fitzgerald.- 6. The Process of Development: The Contribution of Regulation Theory- Robert Boyer.- 7. Development as an Evolutionary Economic Process- Richard Nelson.- 8. Feminist Economist's Reflections on Economic Development: Theories and   Policy Debates- Maria S. Floro.- Part III: Socio-Economic Development Processes:  Structural Change, Inequality, Poverty, Institutions and Capabilities.- 9. The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies: A Structural-Change Perspective- Xinshen Diao, Margaret McMillan and Dani Rodrik.- 10. Income Inequality in Developing Countries: Past and Present- Rolph Van der Hoeven.- 11. The Distribution of Productive Assets and the Economics of Rural Development and Poverty Reduction- Michael R. Carter and Aleksandr Michuda.- 12. Institutions and the Process of Industrialisation: Towards a Theory of Social Capability Development- Ha-Joon Chang and Antonio Andoreoni.- 13. Capability Approach and Human Development- Sakiko Fukuda Parr and Ismael Cid Martinez.- Part IV:  Finance, Labour, Technology and Ecology in Economic Development.- 14. Development Finance: Theory and Practice- Fernando Cardim de Carvalho, Jan Kregel, Lavinia Barros de Castro and Rogerio Studart.- 15. Critical Reappraisal of the Aid-Debt-Growth Debate: Retrospectand

Machiko Nissanke is Professor Emeritus of Economics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has published extensively on a wide range of topics including finance and development, debt dynamics and macroeconomic management, institutional economics and globalization in books, journals and UN reports. She has served as advisor to various international organisations and research networks, and directed several major international research programmes. 

José Antonio Ocampo is Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de la República, Colombia's central bank, and Chair of the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). He teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development,international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.