Reassessing the Obstacles to Economic Development
Author : Nathaniel H. Leff
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2010
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ISBN : 9780043303252
Author : Nathaniel H. Leff
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2010
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ISBN : 9780043303252
Author : Nosson Chayim Leff
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 9780043303245
Author : Nathaniel H. Leff
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415595087
First published in 1982, this work builds on the detailed economic history of Brazil in its companion volume: "Economic Structure and Change, 1822-1947", assessing and challenging the established interpretations. The book covers in depth the causes of the Northeastâe(tm)s poor economic experience and the emergence of significant regional inequality in Brazilâe(tm)s development. In his analysis of the role of Government in Brazilâe(tm)s economic development, the author offers a fresh perspective on the importance of public finance constraints and on the tensions between centralisation and federalism. The study also deals with broader analytical interests, affording opportunity to examine the empirical relevance of long-term development models. In encompassing both the period of slow economic growth through much of the nineteenth century and the rapid economic development which began at the end of the century, the study is able to focus upon the conditions which led to the onset of sustained development in a major underdeveloped country, suggesting lessons for contemporary underdeveloped countries.
Author : Nathaniel H. Leff
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Brazil
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Author : N.H. Leff
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1982
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V.1; Economic structure and change; v.2 Reassessing the obstacles to economic development.
Author : Lauchlin Bernard Currie
Publisher : East Lansing : Michigan State University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Developing countries
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Collection of lectures on obstacles to economic development in developing countries - covers theoretical aspects, changes in economic structures, disguised unemployment, economic aid, foreign exchange, trade agreements, investment, savings, industrial research, labour mobility, industrialization, technological change and innovation, etc.
Author : Michael L. Wachter
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Hans Wolfgang Singer
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Developing countries
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Author : Jinfeng Luo
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2019
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The pursuit to uncover the driving forces behind cross-country income gaps has divided economists into two major camps: One emphasizes institutions, while the other stresses non-institutional forces such as geography. Each school of thought has its own theoretical foundation and empirical support, but they share an implicit hypothesis--the forces driving economic development remain the same regardless of a country's stage of development. Such hypothesis implies a theory that the process of development in human history is a continuous improvement in income levels, driven by the same forces, and that structural changes do not dictate the influences of geography and institutions on national income. This paper tests this theory and found it not supported by the data. Specifically, non-institutional factors predominantly explain the cross-country income variations among agrarian countries, while institutional factors largely account for the income differences across industrialized economies. In addition, we find evidence of developmental trap in which noninstitutional forces explain a country's lack of industrialization, while institutions do not. The finding that institutions cannot account for the absence/presence of industrialization lends support to views held by many prominent historians who have cast serious doubts on the notion that institutional changes caused the British Industrial Revolution.
Author : Paul Streeten
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Agriculture
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