Underdevelopment : a strategy for reform /

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Developing countries represent the greatest challenge of our time. Sylos Labini suggests a strategy of institutional reform. For Africa, he recommends organizational reforms consisting of two European centers to tackle illiteracy, and one to promote rural and industrial districts. Finally, he propos...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sylos Labini, Paolo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Federico Caffè lectures.
Subjects:
Economic development.
Institution building.
Développement économique.
Design institutionnel.
economic development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
Economic development
Economic history
Economic policy
Institution building
Social policy
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Wachstumstheorie
Ontwikkelingseconomie.
Developing countries > Economic policy.
Developing countries > Economic conditions.
Developing countries > Social policy.
Africa > Economic policy.
Africa > Social policy.
Afrique > Politique économique.
Afrique > Politique sociale.
Africa
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Pays en voie de développement > Politique économique > 1970-2000.
Pays en voie de développement > Conditions économiques > 1970-2000.
Pays en voie de développement > Politique sociale.
Samfundsvidenskab > Økonomi.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Economic development in a secular perspective
  • Culture, institutions and resources
  • The inadequacy of mainstream economics to explain development processes: returns and prices
  • The inadequacy of mainstream economics to explain development processes: distribution and growth
  • Economic relations between developed and underdeveloped countries
  • Demographic pressure and the countries of increasing poverty
  • Dependent workers, employment and unemployment
  • Organizational and institutional innovations
  • The problem of corruption.

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