Readership: Development economists; public sector economists; economic historians; geographers; graduate students.
Raaj K. Sah, University of Chicago, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Review(s) from previous edition"the authors have produced an important book which represents a substantial contribution to our understanding of how to design taxation policies in developing countries. - Petr Lanjouw, World Bank, Economica, Vol. 61, No. 241, February 1994
"it clearly has important applications for all development economics ... Development economists can ... greatly benefit from incorporating similar assumptions into their models." - Michael Benarroch, The University of Winnipeg, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2:2 (December 1993)
I. An Introduction to Issues and Methodology1: Introduction 2: The Objectives and Instruments of Government Policy and the Structure of the Economy in LDCs 3: An Approach to Applied Welfare Economics II. Inter-Sectoral Taxation Policies4: Rural—Urban Prices in Open Economies 5: The Price Scissors in Open Economies 6: The Price Scissors in Closed and Partially Closed Socialist Economies 7: The Soviet Industrialization Debate and Collectivization III. The Rural Sector8: Income Distribution and Alternative Organizational Forms within the Rural Sector 9: Taxes and Subsidies on Different Goods in the Rural Sector IV. The Urban Sector10: The Impact of Urban Wag and Employment Determination on Taxation Policies 11: Some Aspects of the Wage-Productivity Hypothesis that are Relevant for Taxation Analysis 12: Taxes and Subsidies on Different Goods in the Urban Sector 13: Tax Policy in the Presence of Migration and Urban Unemployment 14: Taxation in the Urban Sector: Some Aspects of the Underlying Model 15: The Social Cost of Labour 16: Concluding Remarks
