George Mavrotas is a Research Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER. Anthony Shorrocks is Director of WIDER.

Preface--G.Mavrotas & A.Shorrocks * Foreword * Obituary: Lal Jayawardena--A.Singh * PART 1: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS IN RETROSPECT * The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005--E.Thorbecke * Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice--L.Emmerij * From Sees to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development--W.Nafziger * Inequality in Historical Perspective--R.Jolly * PART 2: INEQUALITY AND CONFLICT * Health Improvements and Health Inequality During the Last 40 Years--G.A.Cornia & L.Menchini * Inequality and Corruption--E.Uslaner * Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security--S.M. Murshed * Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence in Early Post-conflict Transitions and its Implications for Development--M.B. Hartwell * PART 3: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING * International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development? Evidence for 1975 to 2002--F.Noorbakhsh * Investing in Health for Economic Development: The Case of Mexico--N.Lustig * A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education--D.Fielding, M.McGillivray & S.Torres * Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development? S.Knowles * PART 4: GLOBALISATION * Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy--N.Birdsall * A Quest for Pro-poor Globalisation--M.Nissanke & E.Thorbecke * International Migration in an Era of Globalisation--A.de Haan * PART 5: DEVELOPMENT FINANCE * International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets--V.Fitzgerald * Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating the IMF Responsibility--S.Marchesi & L.Sabani * International Finance and the Developing World: The Next Twenty Years--T.Addison * PART 6: GROWTH AND POVERTY * Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Evidence--M.Blackden, S.Canagarajah, S.Klasen & D.Lawson * Decomposing Growth: Do Low-income and HIPC Countries Differ from High-income Countries? P.Haaparanta & H.Virta * Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes: International Comparisons--N.Kakwani & H. Son * Innovations, High-tech Trade and Industrial Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy--L.Singh * Manufacturing, Services and Premature De-industrialization in Developing Countries--S.Dasgupta & A.Singh * PART 7: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES * Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America? G.Rozenwurcel * Development in Chile 1990-2005: Lessons From a Positive Experience--A.Garcia Hurtado * Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning From Successes and Failures--A.Zoomers * Development Strategy, Viability and Economic Institutions: The Case of China--J.Y.Lin, M.Liu, S.Pan & P.Zhang * Institutions, Policies and Economic Development--G.W. Kolodko * Patterns of Rent-extraction and Deployment in Developing Countries: Implications for Governance, Economic Policy and Performance--R.M. Auty * Credit Co-operatives in Locally-financed Economic Development: Using Energy Efficiency as Lever--R.McIntyre * PART 8: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS IN PROSPECT * Development Through Globalisation? D.Nayyar * Do we Need a New 'Great Transformation'? Is One Likely?--F. Stewart * Building Absorptive Capacity to Meet the Millennium Development Goals--F.Bourguignon & M.Sundberg * Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy--C.L. Anderson & K.Stamoulis * The Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the 21st Century: Critical Trends and New Challenges--M.Simai * Development Questions for 25 Years--L.Taylor