Principles and concepts: Development economics and third world nations: a global perspective -- Common characteristics of developing nations -- Alternative theories and the meaning of development -- Historic growth and contemporary development: lessons and controversies -- Problems and policies: domestic: Growth, poverty, and income distribution -- The Population debate -- Economics of population and development -- Unemployment: issues, dimensions, and analysis -- Urbanization and rural-urban migration: theory and policy -- Agricultural transformation and rural development -- Education and development -- Problems and policies: international: Trade theory and development experience -- The Balance of payments, international finance, and the third world debt crisis -- The Trade policy debate: export promotion, import substitution, and economic integration -- Direct foreign investment and foreign aid: controversies and opportunities -- Possibilities and prospects: Development planning: theory and practice -- Monetary and fiscal policy: the role and limitations of the state -- Global economic issues in the 1990s: energy and resource balance,africa's downward spiral, the debt crisis, and the international ecomomic order

1. Economic development
2. Developing countries -- Economic policy