Development with a Human Face Experiences in Social Achievement and Economic Growth

by Mehrotra, Santosh; Jolly, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780198296577
• ISBN10: 0198296576
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780198290766
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Within the last fifty years, most developing countries have made health and educational advances that took nearly two centuries in the industrialized countries. This book presents retrospective studies of ten developing countries that managed to exceed the scope and pace of social achievementof other developing countries, with many of their social indicators now being comparable with those of industrialized countries. This book attempts to learn the lesson of their success. Half the ten countries studied have combined rapid economic growth with social achievement, and are now considered to have high-performing economies. Significantly, the high-growth economies achieved social progress very early in the development process, when national incomes were still low. Othersgrew more slowly and experienced interrupted growth. However, they demonstrate that it is possible to achieve a high level of social development even without a thriving economy, if the government sets the right priorities. All ten countries achieved sustained improvement in child survival and educational levels despite low incomes, precisely because the investment required for the provision of basic services is low in cost but high in effectiveness. The cases chosen represent all the developing regions, and offer avariety of routes to high educational status, decreased child mortality, and low fertility. The book provides valuable guidance to policy-makers in developing countries in every region seeking to replicate these successful social experiments.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	ix
Foreword	xv
Acronyms	xvi
Definitions	xvii
I OVERVIEW
Profiles in Success: Reasons for Hope and Priorities for Action	3	(18)
Richard Jolly
Social Development in High-Achieving Countries: Common Elements and Diversities	21	(42)
Santosh Mehrotra
Health and Education Policies in High-Achieving Countries: Some Lessons	63	(50)
Santosh Mehrotra
II CASE-STUDIES
Botswana: Social Development in a Resource-rich Economy	113	(36)
Tyrrell Duncan
Keith Jefferis
Patrick Molutsi
Mauritius: The Roots of Success 1960-1993	149	(30)
Edward
Bridget Dommen
Rapid Social Transformation despite Economic Adjustment and Slow Growth: The Experience of Zimbabwe	179	(25)
Rene Loewenson
Munhamo Chisvo
The Route to Social Development in Kerala: Social Intermediation and Public Action	204	(31)
T.N. Krishnan
Social Policies in a Slowly Growing Economy: Sri Lanka	235	(29)
Patricia Alailama
Nimal Sanderatne
Social Policies in a Growing Economy: The Role of the State in the Republic of Korea	264	(33)
Santosh Mehrotra
In-HWA Park
HWA-Jong Baek
Malaysia: Social Development, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Transformation	297	(26)
Leong Choon Heng
Tan Siew Hoey
Barbados: Social Development in a Small Island State	323	(32)
Myrtle D. Bishop
Rosalyn Corbin
Neville C. Duncan
Costa Rica: Social Development and Heterodox Adjustment	355	(29)
Leonardo Garnier
Rebeca Grynspan
Roberto Hidalgo
Guillermo Monge
Juan Diego Trejos
Human Development in Cuba: Growing Risk of Reversal	384	(37)
Santosh Mehrotra
III CONCLUSION
Paths to Social Development: Lessons from Case-Studies	421	(14)
Lincoln C. Chen
Meghnad Desai
The Links between Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Social Development: Theory and Policy	435	(34)
Lance Taylor
Santosh Mehrotra
Enrique Delamonica
Index	469