Shahrukh Rafi Khan is currently Research Associate at Mount Holyoke College, USA. He formerly served as executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He has also formerly taught at the University of Utah and Vassar College and served as Copeland Fellow at Amherst College. He has published extensively in refereed journals and authored and edited numerous books. He has twice won The Akhtar Hameed Khan book prize and engaged in academic consulting for several international organizations.

Part I: Background

1: Introduction

2: Data and their use in development economics

3: Commonalities and differences among low and low middle income countries

4: Poverty, inequality and some proposed solutions

Part II: Key approaches to economic development and the middle income trap

5: Classical and radical antecedents of development economics

6: Developmentalists and developmentalism

7: Neo-Marxism, structuralism and dependency theory

8: Neoliberalism and its critics

9: New developmentalism: industrial policy, policy space and premature deindustrialization debates

10: Is there a middle income trap?

Part III: How key approaches play into some key debates

11: Debates on foreign aid

12: Debates on foreign direct investment

13: Debates on agriculture/sustainable agriculture

14: Debates on technology and addressing environmental problems/green industrial policy

Part IV: Conclusion

15: Catch-up growth: finding a trigger