Urban Bias

Hans C. Blomqvist and Mats Lundahl

Chapter 7 in The Distorted Economy, 2002, pp 108-130 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the most original and provocative books about economic development written during the past 25 years is Michael Lipton’s Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development. This book deals with systematic distortions of the resource allocation of less developed countries. The central idea is that the most important class conflict in the Third World is not the conflict between labour and capital or between domestic and foreign interests; it is the conflict between country and town.

Keywords: Price Policy; Black Market; Domestic Currency; World Market Price; Agricultural Good (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403914347_7

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