Development and Underdevelopment

Anthony Thirlwall

Chapter Chapter 1 in Growth and Development, 1989, pp 3-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Current academic interest in development economics, and the study of development economics as a separate subject, are relatively recent phenomena. For the student today it will be difficult to appreciate that as recently as thirty years ago a course in development economics was a rare feature of an undergraduate programme in economics, and that textbooks on economic development were few and far between. Today no self-respecting department of economics is without a course in economic development; there are scores of texts; hundreds of case studies; and thousands of articles on the subject. And, as in medicine, the perceived ills seem to multiply as the diagnosis deepens.

Keywords: Capita Income; Poor Country; Living Standard; National Income; Lorenz Curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19837-5_1

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