Gustav Ranis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 133863 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gustav Ranis |
| NOMBRES | Gustav |
| APELLIDO | Ranis |
| FIRMA | RANIS G |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 214 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1959 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Unlimited Supply of Labour and the Concept of Balanced Growth
It is the purpose of this paper to construct an economic modelwhich, we hope, will serve as a point of departure for the study ofcertain key policy issues in the long-run economic development of lessdeveloped countries like Pakistan. As we see it, the key issue ofdevelopmental policy centres about the question of balanced growth ofthe two main sectors: the industrial sector and the agricultural sector.The identification of this as the key issue i…
Should Happiness or Human Development be the Main Development Objective?
This chapter analyses the new emphasis on happiness as the overriding objective of development. The view emerged in response to defects in income as a measure of progress, similar to the origin of the human development approach. After discussing the long historic origins and rationale of the view that societal happiness should be the sole measure of progress, it contrasts the happiness objective with human development, capabilities, and human rig…
Human Development
Human development is often identified with the Human Development Index (HDI), and this is how the empirical work in previous chapters has proceeded. But this is a very reductionist approach to human development. This chapter identifies eleven dimensions that form part of human development, beyond the three incorporated in the HDI, by drawing on the work of philosophers and others. It then explores empirically how far the HDI represents these othe…
Capabilities and Human Development
This chapter analyses the role of social institutions in advancing human development and capabilities. Social interactions are a quintessential part of human life, and their quantity and quality determine a person’s social or relational capabilities, which are an important dimension of human development. In addition, institutions and social capabilities are shown to play a critical role in advancing capabilities generally and shaping individual c…
Advancing Human Development
The book provides a comprehensive account of the human development (HD) approach to development. It shows how it emerged as a consequence of defects in earlier strategies, especially growth maximization. The book investigates the determinants of success and failure in HD across developing countries over the past forty years. Cross-country investigations show broad determinants of success and failure, while country studies give detailed examples o…
Technology and Human Development
This paper has two main objectives. The first is to focus on the role of technology, in combination with human development, in generating the growth needed for further increases in human development, which is seen as the bottom-line output. The second objective is to explore how technology measured by total factor productivity can itself be better explained by way of examining the role of openness, foreign direct investment and various types of p…
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa
There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle …
Success and Failure in Human Development, 1970-2007
The paper reviews experience in advancing Human Development (HD) since 1970 by investigating behaviour among countries that made the largest improvement in HD and those that made the least improvement. The paper provides evidence on a range of indicators for the three best (and worst) performers among high, medium and low HD countries. It identifies alternative combinations of variables associated with success and failure. It then reviews perform…
Paths to Success
Globalization and Self-Determination
Human Development
The well‐known Human Development Index (HDI) encompasses only three rather basic aspects of human welfare. This paper aims to go beyond this, by identifying 11 categories of human development. We next propose plausible candidates as indicators of these categories. We then estimate correlations among the indicators within each category, discarding those that are highly correlated with others. This left 39 indicators to encompass the categories. Of…
Decentralization and Human Development in Argentina
The human development impact of decentralization is the central focus of this paper, which addresses evolving patterns of fiscal decentralization in Argentina based on health and education indicators. The authors use previously unavailable data to look at decentralization in Argentina over time, and to document the positive impact of devolutionary decentralization on health and education, and the empirical relationship between fiscal decentraliza…
Economic growth and human development in Latin America
The paper explores the two-way links between human development and economic growth in Latin America. Economic growth is likely to advance human development as the resource base expands, while higher human development generates greater economic growth as healthier and more educated people contribute to improved economic performance. Regression analysis shows quite strong connections from human development to economic growth in Latin America, but t…
Strategies for Success in Human Development
Another instructive way of looking at the issue of sustainability is to trace performance decade by decade, identifying which countries sustained their good performance
Economic Growth and Human Development
The Asian Crisis and Human Development
The article analyses from a Human Development perspective the adjustment process in five Asian countries seriously affected by the crisis. The previous impressive record in improving human development was due to a rapid fall in Private and Social Income Poverty arising from a sustained growth in incomes, reasonably well allocated. The substantial fall in incomes following the crisis, therefore, potentially had a large poverty?creating effect whil…
V-Goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development
"Will Latin America Now Put a Stop to "Stop-and-Go
This paper raises the question whether the current wave of macro-economic and structural reforms in latin America should be viewed as a decisive change in the continent's long-term development strategy or as part of but another stop-and-go cycle, for which the continent has been known in the past. While no unambiguous answer is provided, the paper outlines what is still needed in the way of persistent micro-economic policy change if obstacles of …
The Political Economy of Development Policy Change
Journal Article The Political Economy of Development Policy Change. Get access The Political Economy of Development Policy Change. By Ranis (Gustav) and MAHMOOD (SYED AKHTAR). (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992. Pp vii + 248. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 55786 250 8.) David E. Hojman David E. Hojman University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 427…
Decentralisation in Indonesia
This paper attempts to assess the extent of decentralisation efforts and their impact on various dimensions of the development process. We find relatively little "real" decentralisation (devolution): local governments have little tax autonomy and central priorities tightly constrain most funding from the centre. Indeed, increased revenue flows serve as a disincentive to modest local tax efforts, reduce the relative importance of locally controlle…
Rural nonagricultural activities in development
This paper focusses on the potentially important role of rural nonagricultural activity in the development process. Using the Hymer-Resnick Z-goods model as a point of departure, we first show that its pessimistic conclusions are based on rather restrictive assumptions as applied to the colonial period. We relax these assumptions, indicating the theoretical possibility of a substantially more positive scenario for that period. Subsequently, we an…
The role of institutions in transition growth
The State of Development Economics
Comparative Technology Choice in Development
The Evolution of Policy Behind Taiwan's Development Success
Economic Growth and Human Development
Paths to Success
Development of the Labor Surplus Economy
Rural nonagricultural activities in development
This paper focusses on the potentially important role of rural nonagricultural activity in the development process. Using the Hymer-Resnick Z-goods model as a point of departure, we first show that its pessimistic conclusions are based on rather restrictive assumptions as applied to the colonial period. We relax these assumptions, indicating the theoretical possibility of a substantially more positive scenario for that period. Subsequently, we an…
Development of the Labour Surplus Economy
Journal Article J. C. H. Fei and G. Ranis. Development of the Labour Surplus Economy: Theory and Policy Get access Development of the Labor Surplus Economy: Theory and Policy. By J. C. H. Fei and G. Ranis. (Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin for the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1964. Pp. x + 324.) Amartya K. Sen Amartya K. Sen Delhi School of Economics. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Eco…
Government and Economic Development
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 351 - 352
V-Goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development
Government and Economic Development
Ranis (G.), (Ed.). Government and Economic Development Government and Economic Development. Edited by G. Ranis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. Pp. xiii + 567. $17.50.) Brian Van Arkadie Brian Van Arkadie Queens’ College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 326, 1 June 1972, Pages 790–792, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230053 Published: 01 June 1972
Equity with growth in Taiwan
The role of institutions in transition growth
Decentralisation in Indonesia
This paper attempts to assess the extent of decentralisation efforts and their impact on various dimensions of the development process. We find relatively little "real" decentralisation (devolution): local governments have little tax autonomy and central priorities tightly constrain most funding from the centre. Indeed, increased revenue flows serve as a disincentive to modest local tax efforts, reduce the relative importance of locally controlle…
Can the East Asian model of development be generalized? a comment
Success and Failure in Human Development, 1970-2007
The paper reviews experience in advancing Human Development (HD) since 1970 by investigating behaviour among countries that made the largest improvement in HD and those that made the least improvement. The paper provides evidence on a range of indicators for the three best (and worst) performers among high, medium and low HD countries. It identifies alternative combinations of variables associated with success and failure. It then reviews perform…
Growth with Equity
Journal Article Growth with Equity: The Taiwan Case Get access Growth With Equity: The Taiwan Case. By Jonn C. H. FER, GUSTAV RANIS and SHIRLEY W. Y. KUO. (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1979. Pp. xxii + 422. £9.50.) The Taiwan Success Story: Rapid Growth with Improved Distribution in the Republic ofChina, 1952-1979. By Smrley W. Y. KUO, GUSTAV RANIS and JOHN C. H. FEI. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + rGr. $7.50.)…
The State of Development Economics
The Financing of Japanese Economic Development
Technology and Human Development
This paper has two main objectives. The first is to focus on the role of technology, in combination with human development, in generating the growth needed for further increases in human development, which is seen as the bottom-line output. The second objective is to explore how technology measured by total factor productivity can itself be better explained by way of examining the role of openness, foreign direct investment and various types of p…
"Will Latin America Now Put a Stop to "Stop-and-Go
This paper raises the question whether the current wave of macro-economic and structural reforms in latin America should be viewed as a decisive change in the continent's long-term development strategy or as part of but another stop-and-go cycle, for which the continent has been known in the past. While no unambiguous answer is provided, the paper outlines what is still needed in the way of persistent micro-economic policy change if obstacles of …
Mr Friedmann's 'Crisis
Equity and Growth
7hat man doesn't live by growth rates alone has been echoing through the LDC's, special UN assemblies, and McNamara speeches in recent years. Long before the recent coming together of oil, fertilizer, and food crises led us to an awareness of the growing disparity among the developing countries-dividing them clearly into third and fourth worldsthe easy assumptions of the sixties as to what was happening within individual LDC's were undergoing a f…
Industrial Sector Labor Absorption
La absorción de fuerza de trabajo en el sector industrial
El interés reciente y cada vez mayor por el problema del desempleo en los países en vía de desarrollo (PVD) adquiere muchas formas. Al igual que el desarrollo mismo, el tema es complejo y presenta muchas facetas, pero es posible que ninguno de los eslabones en la cadena de argumentos haya sido tan incierto y controvertido como el referente a la gama real de opciones tecnológicas abiertas físicamente a los sectores no agrícolas de los PVD de hoy e…
The Financing of Japanese Economic Development
The Political Economy of National Security . James R. Schlesinger
International Aid for Underdeveloped Countries
Production Functions, Market Imperfections and Economic Development
Journal Article Production Functions, Market Imperfections and Economic Development Get access Gustav Ranis Gustav Ranis Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 72, Issue 286, 1 June 1962, Pages 344–354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2228672 Published: 01 June 1962
Development of the Labor Surplus Economy
Development of the Labour Surplus Economy
Journal Article J. C. H. Fei and G. Ranis. Development of the Labour Surplus Economy: Theory and Policy Get access Development of the Labor Surplus Economy: Theory and Policy. By J. C. H. Fei and G. Ranis. (Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin for the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1964. Pp. x + 324.) Amartya K. Sen Amartya K. Sen Delhi School of Economics. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Eco…
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations
Government and Economic Development
Ranis (G.), (Ed.). Government and Economic Development Government and Economic Development. Edited by G. Ranis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. Pp. xiii + 567. $17.50.) Brian Van Arkadie Brian Van Arkadie Queens’ College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 326, 1 June 1972, Pages 790–792, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230053 Published: 01 June 1972
La absorción de fuerza de trabajo en el sector industrial
El interés reciente y cada vez mayor por el problema del desempleo en los países en vía de desarrollo (PVD) adquiere muchas formas. Al igual que el desarrollo mismo, el tema es complejo y presenta muchas facetas, pero es posible que ninguno de los eslabones en la cadena de argumentos haya sido tan incierto y controvertido como el referente a la gama real de opciones tecnológicas abiertas físicamente a los sectores no agrícolas de los PVD de hoy e…
Government and Economic Development
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 351 - 352
The Exchange Constraint on Development--A Partial Solution to the Problem
Journal Article The Exchange Constraint on Development—A Partial Solution to the Problem: A Comment Get access Gustav Ranis Gustav Ranis Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 329, 1 March 1973, Pages 203–207, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231110 Published: 01 March 1973
Industrial Sector Labor Absorption
The Gap between Rich and Poor Nations
Government and Economic Development
Se está tornando amargo el milagro mexicano
En este documento se intenta poner en duda las dos proposiciones siguientes: primero, que la experiencia del desarrollo mexicano se ha aproximado, en el pasado, a una trayectoria óptima desde el punto de vista del objetivo tradicional del crecimiento y, segundo, que lo que hace falta ahora es una trayectoria que responda a las demandas de un nuevo conjunto de objetivos sociales. Expresado en forma más positiva, este análisis del desarrollo mexica…
Short-Run Policy in Semi-Industrialized Economies
A model of growth and employment in the open dualistic economy
In this paper, the pressing problem of unemployment in the contemporary developing world is studied from an historical perspective of transition growth, i.e. the process representing the termination of economic colonialism and the initiation of modern growth. This problem is investigated for a particular type of LDC, namely, the open dualistic labour surplus economy. The post‐war (1950–70) experience of Taiwan and Korea were analyzed from this vi…
Equity and Growth
7hat man doesn't live by growth rates alone has been echoing through the LDC's, special UN assemblies, and McNamara speeches in recent years. Long before the recent coming together of oil, fertilizer, and food crises led us to an awareness of the growing disparity among the developing countries-dividing them clearly into third and fourth worldsthe easy assumptions of the sixties as to what was happening within individual LDC's were undergoing a f…
Lessons from Japanese Development
Industrial Sector Labor Absorption
Equity with growth in Taiwan
Economic development in the Third World
Mr Friedmann's 'Crisis
Distribución del ingreso y crecimiento en Colombia
La noción que el crecimiento y los resultados distributivos están íntimamente relacionados, y deben ser explicados de manera simultanea en cualquier contexto teóricamente valido y relevante en términos de política económica. La medida de
Technology Choice and the Distribution of Income
This article first explores the meaning that attaches to the flexibility in the choice of technology and defines the concept of equity in the distribution of income. It then proceeds to demonstrate how the ability to explore the limits of technological flexibility, both in its static and dynamic senses, can be linked to alternative distributional outcomes. The harshness of the typical import substitution sub-phase of development, the extent atten…
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