Economic Development in the Third World"This best-selling text offers a unique policy-oriented approach that uses models and concepts to illustrate real-world development problems. Retaining its hallmark accessibility throughout, the Eighth Edition uses the most current data, offering full coverage of recent advances in the field, and featuring a balanced presentation of opposing viewpoints on today's major policy debates. Economic Development includes extensive country-specific examples, with particular attention given to economic dislocations throughout Asia, Russia, and Brazil. Updated Country Case Studies and Comparative Case Studies allow students to apply concepts to specific developing nations." |
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A Global Perspective | 3 |
The Need to Go Beyond | 12 |
Common Characteristics of Developing Nations | 27 |
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Africa agricultural areas Asia balance of payments basic benefits billion birthrates Brazil capita income capital Chapter commodity consumption costs debt demand developed nations distribution of income domestic economic development economic growth economists employment example expand export factors factors of production farm fertility Figure foreign aid foreign exchange Gini coefficient growth rates higher import substitution important income distribution increase industrial inequality inputs institutional investment labor force land latifundios Latin America LDCs levels of living Lorenz curve major manufactured ment migration MNCs modern sector monetary neoclassical Nigeria OPEC output policies political poor population growth poverty primary problems production programs ratio relative result rising rural-urban migration South Korea strategy structure supply Table Taiwan tariff theory Third World countries Third World nations tion traditional U.S. dollars underdevelopment United University Press wage World Bank World Development