Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform

by Paolo Sylos Labini

Overview

The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relations 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 offers a new 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521588690
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/10/2001
Series:	Federico Caffe Lectures
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.67(w) x 8.82(h) x 0.83(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

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.