Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited

by Kaushik Basu

Book Overview

Virtually all industrialized nations have annual per capita incomes greater than $15,000; meanwhile, over three billion people, more than half the worlds population, live in countries with per capita incomes of less than $700. Development economics studies the economies of such countries and the problems they face, including poverty, chronic underemployment, low wages, rampant inflation, and oppressive international debt. In the past two decades,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262523442
• ISBN13: 9780262523448
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher