Binding: Hardcover
Description: Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India Poland Brazil China and other Pacific Rim countries and the slow yet essential growth for a turnaround of sub - Saharan Africa. The book is suitable for those with a background in economics principles. The fifth edition of the text written by a scholar of developing countries is replete with real - world examples and up - to - date information. Nafziger discusses poverty income inequality hunger unemployment the environment and carbon - dioxide emissions and the widening gap between rich (including middle - income) and poor countries. Other new components include the rise and fall of models based on Russia Japan China/ Taiwan/ Korea and North America; randomized experiments to assess aid; an exploration of whether information technology and mobile phones can provide poor countries with a shortcut to prosperity; and a discussion of how worldwide financial crises debt and trade and capital markets affect developing countries.
Title: Economic Development
Author(s): Nafziger E. Wayne (Kansas State University)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521765480
Pages: 856 Pages, 47 Tables, Unspecified; 1 Plates, Color; 1 Maps; 79 Line Drawings, Unspecified
Publication Date: 3/26/2012
Category: Development Economics & Emerging Economies