Contiene: 1. Applying Simon Kuznets six characteristics of economic development to South Africa.- 2. The Beijing consensus and income distribution in China: inequality tested by the Kuznets hypothesis.- 3. An analysis of the Kuznets curve.- 4. Testing the Harrod-Domar model: a comparative study of economic growth in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.- 5. Investigating economic growth in LDCs from child labour.- 6. The problem of child labour in India and rwanda.- 7. Family planning in China.- 8. Signiorage and hyperinflation the cases of Perú and Bolivia.- 9. Sun, sand and deindustrialization: employing the Duch disease model to tourism dependent Saint Lucia and Dominica.- 10. Neoclassical or keynesian economic model: which way to economic development in Nigeria?.- 11. The effects of currency devaluation on the balance of trade.- 12. The demographic transtion in Cambodia.- 13. Economic development and income inequality in Brazil.- 14. Fine-tuning fertility: population policies and economic development in Singapore.- 15. Same strategy, different results: import substitution and export-oriented industrialization in East Asia and Latin America.- 16. A dual sector model of Bangladesh.- 17. The factor price equalization theorem and NAFTA: a case study of Mexico and free trade.- 18. Proving the irrelevance of the Harrod-Domar model in the 21st century.- 19. Fools gold?a consideration of immiserizing growth and dutch disease ion economic development in the Kyrgz Republic.- 20. Testing the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem: bilateral trade between South Africa.- 21. Effects population growth and population control strategies: a case study of Bangladesh.- 22. Limitations in measurement of economic development and the gross domestic product (GDP) drawbacks.- 23. Testing the j-curve hypothesis: the cases of Malaysia, Ecuador, and Madagascar.- 24. Effect of globalization on Indias economic growth.- 25. the consequences of child labour on developing nations economic growth: the case of Egypt.