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. |
Contents
Diverse structures and common characteristics | 16 |
The meaning of development | 50 |
Historic growth and contemporary | 80 |
Growth poverty and income distribution | 94 |
The population debate | 127 |
Economics of population and development | 146 |
Issues dimensions and | 164 |
Theory and policy | 186 |
Trade theory and development experience | 270 |
68 | 275 |
ventfor surplus theory of trade | 285 |
The balance of payments and commercial | 296 |
70 | 297 |
Old controversies | 325 |
The role and | 381 |
Global interdependence and the new | 399 |
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20 per cent Africa agricultural Asia basic benefits birth rates Brazil capita income capital Chapter Colombia commodity consumption costs curve demand developed nations distribution of income domestic economic and social economic development economic growth economists educational systems employment employment determination example expand exports factors of production farm fertility foreign exchange Gini coefficients groups growth rates higher important income distribution increase industrial inequality inputs institutional investment Kenya Keynesian labor force land latifundios Latin America LDCs less developed countries levels of living Lorenz curve major manufacturing ment million Nigeria OPEC opportunities opportunity cost output planning policies political population growth primary education problems ratio relative result rise rural development rural-urban migration South Korea strategies structure subsistence supply Table Taiwan technological theory Third World countries Third World nations tion traditional underdevelopment United urban unemployment wage world population