| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xi, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The dual gaps : an updated overview of theory and research / Mitchell A. Seligson -- The five stages of growth / W.W. Rostow -- Income growth, income gaps and the ranking of nations / Angus Maddison -- The persistence of the gap between rich and poor countries : taking stock of world economic growth, 1960-1993 / John T. Passé-Smith -- Economic growth and income inequality / Simon Kuznets -- Cross-national evidence of the domestic gap / Montek S. Ahluwalia -- A new data set measuring income inequality / Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire -- Inequality and insurgency / Edward N. Muller and Mitchell A. Seligson -- Catching up, forging ahead and falling behind / Moses Abramovitz -- Productivity growth, convergence and welfare : what the long-run data show / William J. Baumol -- Productivity, growth, convergence and welfare : comment / J. Bradford de Long -- Could it be that the whole world is already rich? A comparison of RGDP/pc and GNP/pc measures / John T. Passé-Smith -- Forget convergence : divergence past, present and future / Lant Pritchett -- The achievement motive in economic growth / David C. McClelland -- Reevaluating the effect of N-Ach on economic growth / Jeffrey Lewis -- The effect of cultural values on economic development : theory, hypotheses and some empirical tests / Jim Granato ... [et al.] -- Becoming modern / Alex Inkeles and David H. Smith -- The Confucian ethic and economic growth / Herman Kahn -- The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis -- Undevelopment is a state of mind / Lawrence E. Harrison -- On the sociology of national development : theories and issues / Alejandro Portes -- The structure of dependence / Theotonio dos Santos -- Modernization and dependency : alternative perspectives in the study of Latin American underdevelopment / J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela -- The present state of the debate on world inequality / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Transnational penetration and economic growth / Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Growth effects of foreign and domestic investment / Glenn Firebaugh -- American penetration and Canadian development : a study of mature dependency / Heather-Jo Hammer and John W. Gartrell -- Governments and agricultural markets in Africa / Robert H. Bates -- Why people stay poor elsewhere / Erich Weede -- Urban bias and inequality / Michael Lipton -- Political regimes and economic growth / Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi -- Growth in East Asia : what we can and what we cannot infer / Michael Sarel -- Inequality as a constraint on growth in Latin America / Nancy Birdsall and Richard Sabot -- Growth and the environment : allies or foes? / Vinod Thomas and Tamara Belt -- Inequality in a global perspective : directions for further research / Mitchell A. Seligson -- Appendix. Basic indicators of the gaps between rich and poor in 133 countries. |
| Subject |
Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
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Economic development.
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Income distribution.
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Capitalism.
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Economic history -- 1945-
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Social history -- 1945-
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| Added Author |
Seligson, Mitchell A., 1945-
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Passé-Smith, John T.
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| Spine Title |
Development & underdevelopment |
| ISBN |
155587794X paperback alkaline paper |
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