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Online Appendices for Essentials of Development Economics, Chapter One by J. Edward Taylor with Travis Lybbert

The Transfer Project is a recent project aimed at evaluating impacts of cash transfer programs for the poor on a range of outcomes, from crop production to AIDS prevention. See, the Transfer Project website, housed at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/transfer

The Marshall Plan represents the beginning of modern development. Initiated following World War II it was aimed at developing West European countries devastated by the war. For an overview of the Marshall Plan, including links to videos and documentaries, check out http://www.marshallfoundation.org/TheMarshallPlan.htm

In September 2000, 189 nations pledged to try to achieve the United Nation Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The following website explains the background of this commitment and the progress so far: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml

Chewe Nkonde, Nicole M. Mason, Nicholas J. Sitko and T.S. Jayne. “Who Gained and Who Lost from Zambia’s 2010 Maize Marketing Policies?” Working Paper No. 49, Food Security Research Project, Lusaka, Zambia, January 2011 (http://www.aec.msu.edu/fs2/zambia/wp49.pdf)

W. W. Rostow. “The Stages of Economic Growth” The Economic History Review , New Series, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1959), pp. 1-16. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2591077

Simon Kuznets. “Economic Growth and Income Inequality” The American Economic Review , Vol. 45, No. 1 (Mar., 1955), pp. 1-28. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1811581

Roy F. Harrod, ‘An Essay in Dynamic Theory’ (1939) 49 Economic Journal 14–33. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2225181

Lewis, W. Arthur (1954). "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor,". Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, Vol. 22, pp. 139-91. (ftp://ftp.uic.edu/pub/depts/econ/wpaper/cchis/old%20docs533%20S07/Economic%20Development%20with%20Unlimited%20Supplies%20of%20Labour%20-%20Arthur%20Lewis.pdf)

Gustav Ranis and John C. Fei. 1961. “A Theory of Economic Development.” American Economic Review (September) 51:533-58. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1812785

Raúl Prebisch, “Commercial Policy in the Underdeveloped Countries,” American Economic Review 49 (May 1959): 251–273, Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1816120

Mellor, John W. The New Economics of Growth: A Strategy for India and the Developing World (b. 1928): Cornell University Press. (Ithaca, NY). 1976. (ISBN 0801409993).

Kuznets, Simon. 1955. Economic Growth and Income Inequality. American Economic Review 45 (March): 1-28