| Edition |
5th ed. |
| Physical description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 838 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Fifth Edition -- Title -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- Abbreviations and Measures -- Abbreviations -- Measures -- PART ONE. PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT -- 1. How the Other Two-Thirds Live -- Nature and Scope of the Text -- Organization of the Text -- How the Poorest Two-Thirds Live -- INEQUALITY BETWEEN THE WORLD'S RICH AND POOR -- PURCHASING POWER PARITY -- COMPARISONS BETWEEN DEVELOPED AND LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES -- Globalization, Outsourcing, and Information Technology -- India's and Asia's Golden Age of Development. |
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ASIA'S COMPETITION AND AMERICAN PROTESTSWhich Is the Major Motor of Global Economic Growth: America or Asia -- Critical Questions in Development Economics -- QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS -- TERMS TO REVIEW -- GUIDE TO READING -- 2. What Is Economic Development -- Scope of the Chapter -- GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTRIES -- PROBLEMS WITH USING THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT TO MAKE COMPARISONS OVER TIME -- PROBLEMS IN COMPARING DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES' GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT -- COMPARISON-RESISTANT SERVICES -- PURCHASING POWER PARITY. |
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MEASUREMENT ERRORS FOR GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT OR GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT ADJUSTED FOR PURCHASING POWERA BETTER MEASURE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- WEIGHTED INDICES FOR GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT GROWTH -- "BASIC NEEDS" ATTAINMENT -- DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM AND LIBERATION -- SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL -- ARE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WORTHWHILE -- CONCLUSION -- TERMS TO REVIEW -- QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS -- GUIDE TO READINGS -- 3. Economic Development in Historical Perspective -- Scope of the Chapter -- An Evolutionary Biological Approach to Development -- Ancient and Medieval Economic Growth. |
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World Leaders in Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, 1500 to the PresentBeginnings of Sustained Economic Growth -- The West and Afro-Asia: The Nineteenth Century and Today -- Capitalism and Modern Western Economic Development -- Economic Modernization in the Non-Western World -- The Japanese Development Model -- 7. -- The Korean-Taiwanese Model -- THE RUSSIAN-SOVIET DEVELOPMENT MODEL -- CHINA'S MARKET SOCIALISM -- Lessons from Non-Western Models -- Growth in the Last 100 to 150 Years -- The Power of Exponential Growth -- The United States and Canada: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- The Golden Age of Growth. |
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Economic Growth in Europe and Japan after World War IIRecent Economic Growth in Developing Countries -- RAPID AND SLOW GROWERS -- Regions of the World -- The Convergence Controversy -- Conclusion -- TERMS TO REVIEW -- QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS -- GUIDE TO READINGS -- 4. Characteristics and Institutions of Developing Countries -- Scope of the Chapter -- Varying Income Inequality -- Political Framework -- VARYING POLITICAL SYSTEMS -- A SMALL POLITICAL ELITE -- LOW POLITICAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION -- EXPERIENCE OF WESTERN DOMINATION -- AN EXTENDED FAMILY -- PEASANT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. |
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A Large Proportion of the Labor Force in Agriculture. |
| Summary |
"E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe"--Provided by publisher |
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"E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. The book is suitable for those with a background in economics principles. Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India, Poland, Brazil, China, and other Pacific Rim countries, and the slow, yet essential, growth for a turnaround of sub-Saharan Africa. The fifth edition of the text, written by a scholar of developing countries, is replete with real-world examples and up-to-date information. Nafziger discusses poverty, income inequality, hunger, unemployment, the environment and carbon-dioxide emissions, and the widening gap between rich (including middle-income) and poor countries. Other new components include the rise and fall of models based on Russia, Japan, China/Taiwan/Korea, and North America; randomized experiments to assess aid; an exploration of whether information technology and mobile phones can provide poor countries with a shortcut to prosperity; and a discussion of how worldwide financial crises, debt, and trade and capital markets affect developing countries"--Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Income distribution -- Developing countries.
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Economic development.
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Income.
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Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
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| ISBN |
9781139336482 (electronic bk.) |
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1139336487 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139028295 (electronic bk.) |
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1139028294 (electronic bk.) |
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9786613571403 |
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6613571407 |
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9780521765480 |
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052176548X |
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9781139339803 |
| Standard Number |
9786613571403 |
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