Development and underdevelopment : the political economy of global inequality
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Development and underdevelopment : the political economy of global inequality
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003
3rd ed
Available at 22 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Presenting up-to-date arguments in the debates about issues of economic growth and inequality, this book is a guide to understanding the causes and dynamics of the persistent income gap between rich and poor countries. Each reading includes a short introduction by the editors highlighting the significance of the selections.
Table of Contents
- The dual gaps - an updated overview of theory and research, M.A. Seligson. Is there a gap between rich and poor countries?: The world economy - a millennial perspective, A. Maddison
- The persistence of the gap between rich and poor countries, 1960-1998, J.T. Passe-Smith
- The rising inequality of world income distribution, Robert Hunter Wade
- Could it be that the whole world is already rich? - a comparison of RGDP/pc and GNP/pc measures, J.T. Passe-Smith. The other gap - domestic income inequality: Economic growth and income inequality, S. Kuznets
- Should equity be a goal of economic policy?, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department
- Inequality and insurgency, E.N. Muller, M.A. Seligson
- Some new evidence on correlates of political violence - income, inequality, regime repressiveness and economic development, E. Weede. The classis thesis - convergence or divergence?: The five stages of growth, W.W. Rostow
- Catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind, M. Abramovitz
- Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare - what the long run data show, W.J. Baumol
- Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare - comment, J.B. DeLong
- World economic trends in the distribution of income, 1965-1992, R.P. Korzeniewicz, T.P. Moran
- Empirics of world income inequality, G. Firebaugh. Culture and development: The achievement motive in economic growth, D.C. McClelland
- The confucian ethic and economic growth, H. Kahn
- The culture of poverty, O. Lewis
- The effect of cultural values on economic development - theory, hypotheses, and some empirical tests, J. Granato, R. Inglehart, D. Leblang. Dependency theory: the structure of dependence, T. dos Santos
- American penetration and Canadian development - a study of mature dependency, H.J. Hammer, J.W. Gartwell
- The Irish case of dependency - an exception to the exception?, D. O'Hern
- Growth effects of foreign and domestic investment, G. Firebaugh
- The long-term effects of foreign investment dependence on economic growth, 1940-1990, J. Kentor
- Income inequality, development, and dependence - a reconsideration, A. Alderson, F. Nielson. The state, growth and inequality: Big bills left on the sidewalk - why some nations are rich, and others poor, M. Olson Jr.
- Mauritius - a case study, A. Subramanian
- Why aren't countries rich? weak states and bad neighbourhoods, C. Kenny
- Urban bias and inequality, M. Lipton
- Political regimes and economic growth, A. Przeworski, F. Limongi
- Inequality as a constraint on growth in Latin America, N. Birdsall, R. Sabot
- The myth of Asia's miracle, P. Krugman. Conclusion: Inequality in a global perspective - directions for further research, M.A. Seligson
- Appendix
- Basic indicators of the rich and poor in 133 countries.
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