Development Policy as Public Finance

by Clive Bell

Book Overview

This is a graduate text on the use of public economics in formulating development policy. How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost-benefit analysis as a means to discipline public expenditure decisions. Summaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198773676
• ISBN13: 9780198773672
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"