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Trade, Planning and Rural Development

Essays in Honour of Nurul Islam

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Azizur Rahman Khan

    1. University of California, Riverside, USA

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  2. Rehman Sobhan

    1. Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, Bengal

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A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner. The essays fall under three subject headings - international trade and aid, planning and rural development.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Azizur Rahman Khan, Rehman Sobhan
      Pages 1-5

  3. Trade and Aid

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Parabolic Welfare Functions and Development Assistance

      • Jan Tinbergen
      Pages 9-17

    3. Cost of Directly Unproductive Profit-Seeking and Rent-Seeking Activities: Some Conceptual Issues

      • Jagdish N. Bhagwati
      Pages 18-26

    4. On Some Unresolved Issues in Optimum Tariff Theory

      • Wahidul Hague
      Pages 27-35

    5. Comparative Advantage and Free Trade

      • Paul Streeten
      Pages 36-52

    6. The Governance Gap

      • Just Faaland, Jack Parkinson
      Pages 53-75

  6. In Lieu of a Conclusion:A Personal Reminiscence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Economics Comes of Age in a Developing Country: the Case of Bangladesh

      • Austin Robinson
      Pages 223-230
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Riverside, USA

    Azizur Rahman Khan

  • Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, Bengal

    Rehman Sobhan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Trade, Planning and Rural Development

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Nurul Islam

  • Editors: Azizur Rahman Khan, Rehman Sobhan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11415-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Azizur Rahman Khan and Rehman Sobhan 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-11417-7Published: 01 January 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11415-3Published: 18 June 1990

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 236

  • Topics: International Economics, Development Economics

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