Development: Problems and Constraints

R. C. Mascarenhas
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R. C. Mascarenhas: Victoria University of Wellington

Chapter 2 in Comparative Political Economy of East and South Asia, 1999, pp 13-25 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The emergence from colonialism to independence after World War II of several Asian, African and Latin American countries drew the attention of academics and policy-makers to significant gaps in the knowledge and understanding of these countries and led to a concerted effort to study them, their economy, polity, society and culture. Such studies revealed the chasm between them and other countries that, over a period of time, had exploited opportunities and resources and moved ahead in the economic and political spheres, achieving a developed status. The measures adopted for comparison were economic indicators like gross national product or equivalent levels of growth, level of political development, technology and modernization of society. Assuming a desire on the part of the newly independent countries to aspire to that ‘developed’ status, such studies focused on possible paths to guide these countries towards that goal.

Keywords: State Intervention; Entrepreneurial Behaviour; Moral Economist; Private Capacity; Dual Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333983539_2

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