Paolo Sylos Labini, Paolo Sylos Labini

Underdevelopment

A Strategy for Reform

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sylos Labini suggests a strategy of institutional reform to tackle problems of underdevelopment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780521142779
• ISBN-10: 0521142776
• Artikelnr.: 29608525

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Introduction
1. Economic development in a secular perspective
2. Culture, institutions and resources
3. The inadequacy of mainstream economics to explain developmental processes: returns and prices
4. The inadequacy of mainstream economics to explain development processes: distribution and growth
5. Economic relations between developed and underdeveloped countries
6. Demographic pressures and the countries of increasing poverty
7. Dependent workers, employment and underemployment
8. Organizational and institutional innovations
9. The problem of corruption
Conclusion: a strategy of reforms
Bibliography
Index.