Socio-Economic Development

Abstract

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Developing countries and the concept of development -- 1.1 Approaches to development -- 1.2 The development debate -- 1.3 Growth and development -- Rich countries and poor countries: development as economic growth -- Development as structural change -- Development as poverty reduction -- Development as social welfare -- Development as modernisation -- Development as freedom -- Development as sustainability -- The Millennium Development Goals -- 1.4 Are growth and development desirable? -- 1.5 Development and Westernisation -- 1.6 Indicators of growth and development -- International comparisons based on purchasing power parities -- Social indicators -- 1.7 Does the `Third World´ exist? -- Low-income countries -- Lower-middle-income countries -- Upper-middle-income countries -- High-income countries -- The impact of the 2008 global financial crisis -- Oil-exporting developing countries -- Newly industrialising countries -- Countries in transition -- Regional differences in poverty, welfare and growth dynamics -- Dimensions of difference -- 1.8 The gap between rich and poor countries -- The paradox of increasing inequality and increasing mobility -- 1.9 What do developing countries have in common? -- Poverty and malnutrition -- Large shares of agriculture -- Dualism and inequality -- Rapid population growth -- Rapid urbanisation -- Underutilisation of labour -- Political instability and pervasive corruption -- Environmental degradation -- Low levels of technology capabilities -- 1.10 The framework of proximate, intermediate and ultimate sources of growth and development -- Further reading.