Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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 development 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 pressure and the countries of increasing poverty
- 7 Dependent workers, employment and unemployment
- 8 Organizational and institutional innovations
- 9 The problem of corruption
- Conclusion: a strategy for reform
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Demographic pressure and the countries of increasing poverty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- 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 development 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 pressure and the countries of increasing poverty
- 7 Dependent workers, employment and unemployment
- 8 Organizational and institutional innovations
- 9 The problem of corruption
- Conclusion: a strategy for reform
- Bibliography
- Index
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- UnderdevelopmentA Strategy for Reform, pp. 119 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001