The Poverty of "Development Economics."

By M. Wassell, D. Lal. 2002

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Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries (2011, background): “Deepak Lal (1983) Economic growth: Classical liberalism (the invisible hand) is necessary for growth.”
Supply‐Chain Research Opportunities with the Poor as Suppliers or Distributors in Developing Countries (2014, background): “Although sustainable development has been studied extensively in the development economics literature (Hayami 2005, Lal 2000, Ray 1998), operational issues in this context have not been explored much yet.”
Development as freedom: the spaces of Amartya Sen (2002, background): “‘development economics, see Lal (1983), and see also the reply by Stewart (1985).”
Return of industrial policy? (2012, unknown): “A classic polemic in favour of the merger is Lal (1983).”
Why East Asia overtook Latin America: Agrarian reform, industrialisation and development (2002, background): “Thus countries which had pursued protectionism and import substitution industrialisation (ISI) policies came in for heavy criticisms by the World Bank and advocates of neoliberal economic policies (Krueger, 1978; Balassa, 1982; Lal, 1983; Corbo et al, 1985).”
Rethinking the Emerging Post‐Washington Consensus (2005, background): “For powerful expositions of this line of thinking, see Lal (1983) and Little (1982).”
Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa (2009, background): “4See, for example, Lal (1983, 162–3). efficient farmers at any scale, and this can include large-scale land owners engaged in production, with economies of scale relevant in relation to capital, farm machinery, or chemical inputs.”
The Washington Consensus as transnational policy paradigm: Its origins, trajectory and likely successor (2013, background): “Abstract: This paper explores the origins and trajectory of the “Washington consensus”—the ideas associated with developing countries’ move to free markets in the 1980s and 90s. I argue that the Consensus is best understood as a product of both political and scholarly forces—not as an academic theor”
Globalisation, Education and Development: Ideas, Actors and Dynamics (2007, background): “…economic critique of the role of the state in development had emerged that had a strong preference for markets as the mechanism through which production, distribution and consumption within an international economy should be efficiently managed (Bhagwati, 1982; Little, 1982; Lal, 1983).”
The (im)possibility of development studies (2007, background): “Lal took issue with ‘The poverty of ‘‘development economics’’’ what he referred to in a short paper for Finance and Development in the same year (Lal 1983b) as ‘The misconceptions of ‘‘development economics’’’.”