Development Policy as Public Finance

Development Policy as Public Finance

By Clive Bell

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.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publish Date: 10/30/2003
Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780198773672
ISBN-10: 0198773676
Language: English

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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 and exercises are included.

About the Author

Clive Bell is Professor of Economics at Heidelberg University. Having obtained his D. Phil. from the University of Sussex in 1976, he has since held positions at the World Bank (1974-85), Johns Hopkins University (1985-6), Vanderbilt University (1986-95), and Regensburg University (1991-4).

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