Towards Human Development: New Approaches to Macroeconomics and Inequality

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This book advances thinking in the area of Human Development by analysing its relation with inequality and macro-economic policy. It presents a new framework for a pro-growth pro-Human Development macro-economics, including suggestions for the global management of technology and capital flows. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Frances Stewart: Human Development, Inequality, and Macroeconomics: An Overview of Progress and Unresolved Problems Part I: Sir Richard Jolly's Contribution to the Analysis of Economic Development 2: John Toye: The Achievements of an Optimistic Economist Part II: Human Development and Inequality: Progress in Concepts and Policies? 3: Séverine Deneulin: Constructing New Policy Narratives: The Capability Approach as Normative Language 4: Christopher Colclough: Human Development as the Dominant Paradigm: What Counts as Success? 5: Ravi Kanbur: Social Protection: Consensus and Challenges 6: Robert H. Wade: The Strange Neglect of Income Inequality in Economics and Public Policy? 7: Frances Stewart: Justice, Horizontal Inequality, and Policy in Multi-Ethnic Societies 8: Rolph van der Hoeven: Employment, Poverty, and Development: Do We Have the Priorities Right? Part III: Structural Adjustment, New Macroeconomic Approaches and Remaining Challenges 9: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: The New Structuralist Macroeconomics and Inequality 10: Gerry Helleiner: Trade, Exchange Rates, and Global Poverty: Policies for the Poorest 11: Bruno Martorano, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, and Frances Stewart: Human Development and Fiscal Policy: Comparing the Crises of 1982-85 and 2008-11 12: Raphael Kaplinsky: Innovation for Pro-Poor Growth: From Redistribution with Growth to Redistribution through Growth 13: Stephany Griffith Jones and José Antonio Ocampo: Helping Control Boom-Bust in Finance through Countercyclical Regulation