Underdevelopment: a strategy for reform
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Main Author: Sylos Labini, Paolo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
Series:Federico Caffè lectures
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Developing countries represent the greatest challenge of our time. Sylos Labini suggests a strategy of institutional reform. For Africa, he recommends organizational reforms consisting of two European centers to tackle illiteracy, and one to promote rural and industrial districts. Finally, he proposes an international research program to explore problems of underdevelopment
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 214 pages)
ISBN:0511039867
0511054165
0511116691
0511493126
9780511039867
9780511054167
9780511116698
9780511493126

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