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Underdevelopment : = a strategy for reform /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Underdevelopment :/ Paolo Sylos-Labini.
Reminder of title:	a strategy for reform /
Author:	Sylos Labini, Paolo,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Economic development. -
Subject:	Developing countries - Foreign economic relations - United States. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511493126
ISBN:	9780511493126 (ebook)

Underdevelopment : = a strategy for reform /
Sylos Labini, Paolo,

Underdevelopment :a strategy for reform /Paolo Sylos-Labini. - 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Federico Caffe` lectures. - Federico Caffe` lectures..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Economic development in a secular perspective -- Culture, institutions and resources -- The inadequacy of mainstream economics to explain development processes: returns and prices -- The inadequacy of mainstream economics to explain development processes: distribution and growth -- Economic relations between developed and underdeveloped countries -- Demographic pressure and the countries of increasing poverty -- Dependent workers, employment and unemployment -- Organizational and institutional innovations -- The problem of corruption.

The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relation and the extraordinary acceleration of industrial economic relations, has not led to increased convergence in the global economy. Rather, in some cases it has been accompanied by greater divergence between the fortunes of the world's richest and poorest nations. Professor Sylos Labini argues that mainstream economics provide limited help in considering these phenomena and instead adopts the perspectives of Adam Smith, David Riccardo and Malthus, who put economic growth at the centre of their analyses. In this short book he offers a fresh approach to the theory of economic growth and reminds us of the great variety of economic trajectories in developing countries. He further proposes a strategy of institutional reform to respond to the problem of underdevelopment. For Africa he recommends a strategy of organizational reforms, including a programme to eradicate illiteracy and to promote rural and industrial districts.

ISBN: 9780511493126 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

555228
Economic development.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

585973
Developing countries
--Foreign economic relations--United States.

LC Class. No.: HC59.7 / .S898 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 338.9/009172/4

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