The Economics of Sustainable Development



Acknowledgments vii
1 The Concept of Sustainable Development: An Introduction 1
Sisay Asefa
2 Some Neglected Aspects of Sustainable Development 19
Malcolm Gillis
3 Economic Development, Inequality, and War 31
E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen
4 Productivity Growth in World Agriculture: Sources and 65
Constraints
Vernon W. Ruttan
5 How the World Survived the Population Bomb: 99
An Economic Perspective
David Lam
6 Property Rights and the Urgent Challenge of Environmental 133
Sustainability
Daniel W. Bromley
7 Too Poor to Be Stewards? Rural Poverty and Sustainable 153
Natural Resource Management
Scott M. Swinton
The Authors 179
Index 181
About the Institute 191