Economic Development in the Third World: An Introduction to Problems and Policies in a Global PerspectiveTextbook on economic development in developing countries - discusses underdevelopment in the third world and problems of poverty, unemployment, income distribution and relevant economic theory, and stresses interdependence of the world economy as regards food, energy, natural resources, technology, etc. Diagrams, glossary of terminology, graphs, references and statistical tables. |
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Acknowledgements | xix |
Summary and conclusions | 15 |
Concepts for review Questions for Discussion Further readings | 38 |
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Africa aggregate agricultural analysis areas Asia basic benefits Brazil capita income capital cent Chapter Colombia commodity consumption costs demand developed nations development planning distribution of income domestic economic development economic growth economists effective employment example expand exports factor factors of production farm fertility foreign aid foreign exchange Gini coefficients groups growth rates higher import substitution important income distribution increase industrial inequality inputs institutional international economic international trade Kenya Keynesian labor force land latifundios Latin America LDCs less developed countries levels of living Lorenz curve major manufacturing ment million multinational corporations Nigeria OPEC opportunities opportunity cost Pakistan policies political population growth poverty primary products problems ratio relative result rich nations rising rural development rural-urban migration strategies structure subsistence supply Table tariff technological theory Third World countries Third World nations tion tional traditional underdevelopment United urban unemployment wage