Previous edition: Reading, Mass.; Harlow: Addison-Wesley, 2003.

Includes index.

1. Economics, institutions, and development : a global perspective -- 2. Comparative development : differences and commonalities among developing countries -- 3. Classic theories of economic development -- 4. Contemporary models of development and underdevelopment -- 5. Poverty, inequality, and development -- 6. Population growth and economic development : causes, consequences, and controversies -- 7. Urbanization and rural-urban migration : theory and policy -- 8. Human capital : education and health in economic development -- 9. Agricultural transformation and rural development -- 10. The environment and development -- 11. Development policymaking and the roles of market, state, and civil society -- 12. Trade theory and development experience -- 13. The trade policy debate : export promotion, import substitution, and economic integration -- 14. Balance of payments, developing-country debt, and the macroeconomic stabilization controversy -- 15. Foreign finance, investment, and aid : controversies and opportunities -- 16. Finance and fiscal policy for development -- 17. Some critical issues for the twenty-first century.