Comparing the post-war economic development of five main types of developing country (low-income African, low-income large Asian, mid-income Latin American, the mineral economy and newly industrializing East Asian), this book explains their diverging economic performance largely through internal policies, but particular attention is paid to the impact of a country's natural resource endowment on policy choice. The tendency for well-endowed countries to under-perform in relation to their potential is noted and explained in terms of a "resource curse" thesis. The book argues that post-war experience has shown which economic policies can secure rapid per capita economic growth. As a result new priorities are emerging concerned with the promotion of environmentally sustainable development, more equal opportunity and political pluralism. Against this broad thesis, the book pursues five central themes: rural urbanization, unequal terms of trade and the role of government. Each theme is discussed with particular reference to one of the five types of country, noting the key implications for the other four country types.
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978-0-340-62511-8 (9780340625118)
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Part 1 Overview - world within the Third World: diverging development - types of developing country. Part 2 Urban bias and environmental deterioration - low-income Africa: rural neglect and environmental degradation in Africa; population, technology and land - a soft-tech greening of Africa. Part 3 Income inequality - low-income Asia: income inequality - distance and development in low-income Asia; the costs of Autakic industrialization in China and India. Part 4 Primacy and hyperurbanization - mid-income Latin America: the city size controversy - Latin American experience; restructuring the city and settlement hierarchy. Part 5 Hard lessons from the new international economic order - mineral economies: critiques of international trade; the mineral eceonomies - from trade confrontation to sustainable development. Part 6 The role of the state - mid-income East Asia: East Asia's developmental escalator - Malaysia and Indonesia; a prudent role for the state - the industrial policy controversy in resource-poor Korea and Taiwan. Part 7 Prospects: incorporating environment sustainability, income redistribution and democratization into economic development.
