Format:
XVIII, 458 S. : graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0-19-828863-8
Content:
"The wide-ranging and innovative book synthesises the findings of a major international study of the political economy of poverty, equity, and growth. It is based primarily on analytical economic histories of twenty-one developing countries from 1950 to 1985, but also takes account of the much wider literature on the subject. It represents an ambitious interdisciplinary attempt to identify patterns in the interplay of initial conditions, institutions, interests, and ideas which can help to explain the different growth and poverty alleviation outcomes in the Third World." "Three different types of poverty are distinguished, based on their causes, and a more nebulous notion of equity - in contrast to egalitarianism - is shown to have influenced policy. Since growth is found to be the major means of alleviating mass structural poverty, much of the book is concerned with probing for explanations for policies which are found to be the most important influence on the proximate causes of growth. The authors also consider the available evidence on the role of direct transfers - public and private - in alleviating destitution and conjunctural poverty." "The evidence marshalled is used to argue for the continuing relevance of the classical liberal viewpoint on public policies for development, and to show why, even so, nationalist ideologies are likely to be adopted and to lead to cycles of dirigisme and liberalism. The evidence is also used to provide an explanation for the surprising current world-wide Age of Reform."--BOOK JACKET.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Wirtschaft
;
Armut
;
Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Einflussgröße
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Armut
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/96223581-d.html
